NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup (10.1.1)
  1. About NetBackup 10.1.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.1.1 release
    2.  
      About NetBackup Late Breaking News
    3.  
      About NetBackup third-party legal notices
  2. New features, enhancements, and changes
    1.  
      About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
    2. NetBackup 10.1.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        Resilient backup jobs feature is now available
      3.  
        Support for agentless recovery to switch to instant access
      4.  
        Activity monitor improvements in the NetBackup web UI
      5.  
        Additional NetBackup Flex Scale features in the Flex Scale web UI
      6.  
        Limited types of job filters can be imported into NetBackup web UI
      7.  
        RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.1.1
      8.  
        NetBackup 10.1.1 support additions and changes
      9.  
        End-of-life of Enhanced Auditing (EA) authorization model
      10.  
        Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operating system support additions
      11.  
        Additional policy types supported in the NetBackup web UI
      12.  
        Support for Oracle Copilot with multiple universal shares
      13.  
        Backup and restore of Kubernetes applications with file system volumes
      14.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      15.  
        NetBackupIT Analytics Data Collector installed for NetBackup 10.1.1
      16.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.1.1
      17.  
        VMware backups support for file system optimizations with XFS file systems
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.1.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.1.1 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
      2.  
        Native installation requirements
      3.  
        NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
      4.  
        About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
    3. NetBackup administration and general operational notes
      1.  
        For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database before upgrade
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      2.  
        Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
      3.  
        Policy name link does not work for some failed jobs in the web UI Activity Monitor
      4.  
        Backup Now does not support job restart
      5.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      6.  
        NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
    5. NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
      1.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
      2.  
        BMR direct P2V VM conversion task fails with status code 7
    6. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
      1.  
        Backups from snapshot jobs for NAS data protection policy fail with error 927
    7. NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
    8. NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
      1.  
        CentOS repository mirror URL is updated
      2.  
        NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
      3.  
        Policy schedule start time on the Horizon UI is different than configured in the policy
      4.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      5.  
        NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
      6.  
        Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
      7.  
        Unable to connect to NetBackup primary server using NBCA
      8.  
        Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
      9.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      10.  
        NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
      11.  
        Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
      12.  
        Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
      13.  
        After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
      14.  
        CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
      15.  
        Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
      16.  
        Snapshots fails with "object is not subscriptable" for many policy jobs at the exact same time
      17.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
    9. NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
      1.  
        Support for localized environments in database and application agents
      2.  
        Certain NetBackup user-defined strings must not contain non-US ASCII characters
  4. Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
    1.  
      About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
  5. Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
    1.  
      About NetBackup installation requirements
    2.  
      Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup
    3.  
      NetBackup 10.1.1 binary sizes
  6. Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
    1.  
      About compatibility between NetBackup versions
    2.  
      About NetBackup compatibility lists and information
    3.  
      About NetBackup end-of-life notifications
  7. Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
    1.  
      About related NetBackup documents

End-of-life of Enhanced Auditing (EA) authorization model

Veritas would like to make you aware that the Enhanced Auditing (EA) authorization model in NetBackup will attain end-of-life (EOL) and will no longer be supported in an upcoming release.

Support will continue on older versions of NetBackup and follow the published Veritas Product End of Life policy guidelines.