Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 9.0
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 9.0 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Preventing a rogue media server after the decommissioning of a media server
- HSTS is enabled for the web UI
- NDMP policy management in the NetBackup web UI
- Configure Samba users for SQL Server instant access and universal shares
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 9.0
- API keys support for SAML users
- Instance groups for Oracle and nboradm command to be deprecated in a future release
- RBAC enhancements
- Retention Periods with end dates beyond 2038
- New infinity value for NetBackup images affects OpsCenter custom SQL query building
- Deprecation of BigData policy to protect Nutanix AHV VMs
- About restore from a backup in Microsoft Azure Archive
- Take checkpoints every __ minutes attribute support for NAS-Data-Protection policy
- Accelerator disabled for NAS-Data-Protection policy
- NetBackup 9.0 support additions and changes
- Support for MongoDB 4.2
- Support for Azure Stack with managed disks
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Infinite expiration conversion
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.0
- Cloud Catalyst now removed from NetBackup
- Support for Qumolo storage arrays
- Support for Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) storage arrays
- Restricted restore mode for VMware agentless restore
- VMware agentless support for Windows User Account Control (UAC)
- Veritas Smart Meter is now Veritas Usage Insights
- OpsCenter Agent and deduplication functionality removed from OpsCenter after the NetBackup 9.0
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 9.0 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 9.0 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
- Starting NetBackup services may generate a warning on Solaris platforms
- NetBackup Messaging Broker (mqbroker) not listed in services lists even if it is running
- Backup fails with the Status Code 2074 "Disk volume is down"
- Restore of the Root ("/") folder for NAS-Data-Protection policy fails
- Backups for workloads that use the BigData policy may fail
- Child backup jobs may enter a queued state for workloads that use BigData policy
- 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
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- Temporary devices listed as file system assets
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Global NDMP credentials option is unavailable from the NetBackup web UI
- Differences exist between browsers in functionality of the NetBackup web UI
- Search limitations for security events lists in the NetBackup web UI
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 9.0
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of 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
- Snapshot jobs fail due to exceptions
- CloudPoint CFT upgrade
- Defunct processes continue on the CloudPoint host
- Deleted snapshots still visible in the NetBackup web UI
- Granular restore fails if target path is deleted and recreated
- 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
- Configuring AWS plug-in with IAM role showed that the Authentication Method field is blank
- MongoDB create snapshot job may freeze
- 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 deduplication operational notes
- Backup jobs fail with "Storage server is down ..." for WORM storage servers in multi-domain environments
- Backup job fails after media server with MSDP on Solaris 10 is upgraded to NetBackup 9.0
- Configuring MSDP storage server on Solaris 10 fails
- The ampersand character (&) not allowed in NetBackup deduplication engine credentials
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization 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 end-of-life notifications
Veritas is committed to providing the best possible data protection experience for the widest variety of systems: platforms, operating systems, CPU architecture, databases, applications, and hardware. Veritas continuously reviews NetBackup system support. This review ensures that the proper balance is made between maintaining support for existing versions of products, while also introducing new support for the following:
General availability releases
Latest versions of new software and hardware
New NetBackup features and functionality
While Veritas continually adds support for new features and systems, it may be necessary to improve, replace, or remove certain support in NetBackup. These support actions may affect older and lesser-used features and functionality. The affected features and functionality may include support for software, OS, databases, applications, hardware, and 3rd-party product integration. Other affected items may include the products that are no longer supported or nearing their end-of-support life with their manufacturer.
Veritas provides advance notification to better help its customers to plan for upcoming changes to the support status of the various features in NetBackup. Veritas intends to list older product functionality, features, systems, and the 3rd-party software products that are no longer supported in the next release of NetBackup. Veritas makes these support listings available as soon as possible with a minimum of 6 months where feasible before major releases.
Advance notification of future platform and feature support including end-of-life (EOL) information is available through a widget on the Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) for NetBackup home page. The NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans widget on the SORT for NetBackup home page can be found directly at the following location:
https://sort.veritas.com/nbufutureplans
NetBackup end-of-support-life (EOSL) information is also available at the following location:
https://sort.veritas.com/eosl/show_matrix
See About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools.
The NetBackup 9.0 release may contain changes in support for various systems. In addition to using SORT, you should make sure to review the NetBackup Release Notes document and the NetBackup compatibility lists before installing or upgrading NetBackup software.