NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 9.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 9.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- Backup and restore of Kubernetes applications
- Backup anomaly detection in NetBackup
- Non-privileged user or service user account to run NetBackup services
- Support for AD user groups in the auth.conf file
- 2 FA support for the NetBackup Administration Console through SAML-based Identity Provider or CAC/PIV smart cards or user certificates
- NetBackup Client Direct deduplication is now supported with WORM
- Case insensitivity for client names in a NetBackup policy
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 9.1
- API keys enhancements
- BMR enhancements
- NetBackup support for vCloud Director 9.0, 9.1, and 9.5 has ended
- nbdeployutil renamed to NetBackup Deployment Insights
- About the NetBackup Smart Diagnosis (nbsmartdiag) utility
- EOL for support on RHEL 7.0 through 7.3
- EOL for CentOS 8 support
- NetBackup 9.1 support additions and changes
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Windows compiler and security requirements for NetBackup 9.1 and later installation and upgrade
- New RBAC default roles
- Changes to the RBAC permissions for jobs
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.1
- EOL for CloudPoint version 2.x
- Automated asset protection with intelligent cloud groups
- Changes to Cloud protection policies
- CloudPoint extensions for scalable workflows
- New backup options for cloud workloads
- Backup from snapshot
- Parameterized restore
- Windows agentless support
- Support for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub
- Support for CloudPoint on an RHEL 8.3 Podman environment
- Support for CloudPoint on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
- Continuous data protection (CDP) provides backup for VMware without stunning the VMs
- Combined deployment of NetBackup family products
- Cloud enhancements for administrators
- Instant rollback for VMs
- For VMware and RHV environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
- Query options added for VMware intelligent policies
- Nutanix AHV enhancements
- Oracle Instance Management to be removed from NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Oracle Intelligent Policy can be configured with options for Data Guard
- Oracle and DB2 policy templates are deprecated in the NetBackup 9.1 release
- NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server agent enhancements
- New behavior for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server intelligent policies
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 9.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- After initiating CA migration, connection errors may occur
- If NetBackup 9.1 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
- Permissions necessary for redirected restores with non-root service user accounts
- NetBackup anomaly detection management service may not start after a full catalog restore
- Authorization check fails if you change the user after installation or upgrade in an NBAC-enabled setup
- Restore of the Root ("/") folder for NAS-Data-Protection policy fails
- Errors are shown in the jobs detail when NetBackup attempts to expire images from non-WORM capable storage
- Microsoft Azure backup fails if the resource group name contains a period (.)
- Stale devices shown on the device tree
- Temporary devices listed as file system assets
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 9.1
- Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
- 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 Cloud operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- Connection attempt fails for the VM that is in the unreachable or stopped state, and has the credentials associated with it
- Editing a query with special characters in tag names is not supported for the intelligent Cloud groups
- Starting or restarting the CloudPoint services may fail if a stale IP address entry is retained in the Podamn layer on RHEL 8.3 environment
- CloudPoint discovery status shows as failed in the NetBackup web UI
- New CloudPoint asset information may affect recovery
- After upgrade, assets are unsubscribed from protection plans with GRT option enabled
- Backup now option may fail with the error
- Adding new regions requires a new cloud plug-in configuration
- In backup and restore jobs, the number of files transferred is shown as 0
- VM disks not displayed due to discovery level
- Snapshot jobs fail due to exceptions
- 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
- 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 deduplication operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- NetBackup master server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
- NetBackup version is displayed as 'Netbackup_9001_beta1' instead of 'NetBackup-CentOS3.10.0 9.0' on the Web UI
- Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
- Unable to connect to NetBackup master server using NBCA
- Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
- Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
- NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
- Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
- Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
- After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
- CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
- Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
- Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
- No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
- 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
Nutanix AHV enhancements
NetBackup 9.1 includes state-of-art features for the protection of Nutanix AHV. NetBackup 9.1 provides following enterprise-level capabilities to protect Nutanix AHV using the NetBackup web UI:
Integration with NetBackupweb UI:
Nutanix AHV features are integrated with NetBackup web UI to provide ability to configure, protect, recover, and monitor Nutanix AHV resources from a web browser.
Role Base Access Control (RBAC):
Lets the administrator configure user access and delegate NetBackup tasks such as AHV Asset management, Credentials access, workload protection, VM Recovery, and Files and Folders Recovery.
Credential Management:
Nutanix AHV credentials are added in the NetBackup Credential Management database as named credentials. The owner can share named credentials with other users or administrators for reuse without revealing actual credentials.
Automatic Asset Discovery:
Once AHV cluster is added in NetBackup Asset, NetBackup runs automatic Resource Discovery process and adds all VMs in the NetBackup asset. After the initial run, the Resource Discovery process runs at a scheduled interval which is configurable. This option ensures that any newly added VMs are included in the NetBackup asset.
Intelligent VM Group:
You can create an intelligent VM group based on a set of filters called queries. You can then apply protection to the group. NetBackup automatically selects virtual machines based on the queries and include them for the protection during the backup operation.
Individual VM backup:
You can also select individual VMs for protection from the list of VMs which are available through automatic discovery process.
Backup Now:
Lets you perform ad hoc backup outside the backup schedule.
Virtual Machine Quiescing:
This option lets you select application-consistent or crash-consistent snapshots leveraging suspending the operations for the options that are provided by Nutanix.
Resource throttling:
This option avoids overloading of Nutanix AHV resources during backup operations. It is done by controlling the number of simultaneous snapshots, backups that can be performed on a Nutanix AHV resource.
Restore options using NetBackup web UI recovery wizard:
VM restore:
Lets you restore the entire AHV VM to same or a different AHV cluster.
Agentless File and folder recovery:
Lets you restore individual files and folders of protected AHV VM to any homogeneous platform target host. The target host can be a virtual machine that is hosted on AHV or other hypervisors or even a physical machine where the NetBackup client is not installed. If NetBackup client is found on the target host then Files and Folders Recovery automatically uses NetBackup client.
File and folder recovery using NetBackup client:
Lets you restore individual files or folder of protected AHV VM to any homogeneous platform where a NetBackup client is configured. This can be a virtual machine that is hosted on AHV or other hypervisors or even a physical machine where the NetBackup client is installed.
Windows backup hosts support:
In addition to Linux based NetBackup Media server/Backup Hosts, you could now use Windows based NetBackup Media server/Backup Hosts to protect Nutanix AHV Cluster.
iSCSI transport mode:
NetBackup now supports iSCSI transport mode for Windows and Linux based NetBackup Media server/Backup Hosts. NFS transport is additionally supported for Linux based NetBackup Media server/Backup Hosts.
Automatic media server selection:
This lets NetBackup automatically pick up available Media server from the pool of media servers. It distributes backup jobs across multiple media servers which are available.
NetBackup APIs:
You can also use NetBackup APIs which are added for all the above features.
For details, refer to the NetBackup 9.1 Web UI Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide.