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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
About NetBackup CA migration to a CA with key strength of 2048 bits and greater
In certain scenarios, you may need to migrate your existing NetBackup certificate authority (CA) hierarchy to a new one. NetBackup supports migrating the existing NetBackup CA to a new one with the following key strengths: 2048 bits, 4096 bits, 8192 bits, and 16384 bits.
AfterNetBackup 8.3 installation or upgrade, new root CA with 2048-bits key strength is deployed.
The NetBackup CA migration process comprises the following stages:
Initiating NetBackup CA migration
Activating the new NetBackup CA
Completing NetBackup CA migration
Decommissioning the old NetBackup CA
Note:
This process is an optional clean-up task.
If you are connected to the NetBackup web UI during NetBackup CA migration, you should again sign in to the web UI for successful communication:
See After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur.
See the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide for more information on NetBackup CA migration.