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Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
Last Published:
2021-01-15
Product(s):
NetBackup (8.3)
- About NetBackup 8.3
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.3 new features, changes, and enhancements
- NetBackup provides data immutability and indelibility on WORM storage devices
- Database improvements reduce CPU load
- OpsCenter data collectors for PureDisk and NetBackup Deduplication Appliance are no longer supported
- OpsCenter 8.3 offers dynamic views
- Monitoring OpsCenter performance tuning using the OpsCenter web UI
- Enhancements to Universal Shares support
- RBAC enhancements
- Configure storage servers in the NetBackup web UI
- New link to Veritas SaaS Backup site added to the NetBackup web UI
- Notifications icon added to the NetBackup web UI
- About policy management in the NetBackup web UI
- Support for Single Sign-On in the NetBackup web UI
- Configuration settings added to NetBackup web UI
- Use NetBackup web UI to share images from an on-premises location to the cloud
- Audit events can be exported to system logs through the NetBackup web UI
- CALLHOME_PROXY_SERVER option for NetBackup master and media servers
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.3
- About NetBackup CA migration to a CA with key strength of 2048 bits and greater
- Support for external key management service (KMS) servers
- NetBackup 8.3 support additions and changes
- Supported extended attributes and file types for granular restore on Linux and Windows
- NetBackup 8.3 licensing enhancements
- Performance improvement in the nbdeployutil utility
- Newer SuSE Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.3
- Support for persistent robotic paths for Linux media servers
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Move the NetBackup database from any btrfs file systems
- Optional installation of Java GUI and JRE
- Changes to user session default values
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.3
- New Asset Services APIs require conversion for Cloud assets
- About uploading deduplicated data to the cloud using MSDP cloud
- CloudPoint is available from the NetBackup web UI
- Support for Nutanix Files file shares
- Granular restore of files, folders, and volumes on cloud virtual machines
- Update for RHV workload from NetBackup web UI
- Database changes require migration of VMware and RHV assets
- Build your own (BYO) support on RHEL for VMware Instant Access
- NetBackup install now includes the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) plug-in for the Hypervisor policy
- Enhancements and changes for the Microsoft SQL Server agent
- Microsoft SQL Server Instant Access support
- Microsoft SQL Server stream handler introduced
- Support for Microsoft SQL standalone and Availability Group (AG) databases
- Enhancements for NetBackup for Oracle
- Oracle stream handler introduced
- NetBackup install now includes the MongoDB plug-in
- Changes in the legacy log folder structure
- Bare Metal Restore enhancements
- MSDP multi-domain support added
- Updates to the NetBackup for OpenStack plug-in
- Integration of Veritas Resiliency Platform with NetBackup
- Enhancements to NAS workloads
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.3 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 8.3 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
- Native installation requirements
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
- Images can be expired from NetBackup catalog even if still WORM-locked on storage
- Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
- NetBackup web server certificate renewal failure during initiation of NetBackup CA migration or upgrade
- Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
- SLP does not retry multistreaming backup if child job fails or is canceled
- Under unusual circumstances, SLP copies are incorrectly expired
- Granular restores require adequate available space on target
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- Temporary devices listed as file system assets
- NetBackup limitations when using IPv6 address as client name or image name
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Screen resolution of 1280x1024 or higher recommended for NetBackup web UI
- NetBackup web UI policies list may temporarily display out-of-date policy details
- Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
- Terminating a NetBackup Administration Console session from the web UI does not log the user out
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 8.3
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- Reduced functionality during the initialization of the NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- Public cloud not supported with gov cloud or China region
- Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
- Consistent host snapshot might fail
- Image clean-up may fail for Microsoft Azure workloads
- Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
- MongoDB create snapshot job may freeze
- Replica retention value is not honored even if it is longer than the snapshot retention value
- Updating a cloud plug-in while a job runs causes job failure
- Permission denied error occurs if both user and password are updated
- Different source and target zones for Google Cloud Platform are not supported
- Broken files system detected
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization operational notes
- Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
- Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
- Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
- Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
Build your own (BYO) support on RHEL for VMware Instant Access
NetBackup now supports VMware Instant Access Build Your Own (BYO). You can build your own storage server on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system to support VMware instant access. For more information, see the following guide: