NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.2
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- Improvements to the NetBackup web UI
- New EEB management view
- Configuring Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Azure and Azure Government
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.2
- NetBackup 10.2 support additions and changes
- Bare Metal Restore (BMR) operating system support additions
- End of support for older authorization models
- Accurate licensing support
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- New NetBackup Scale-Out Relational Database in NetBackup 10.2
- Prerequisites for upgrading to NetBackup 10.2
- Linux environments require a new non-root database user when the root user starts NetBackup daemons
- New connection pooler on port 13787
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.2
- Web UI support for single-file recovery from a VMware guest VM backup using a stored credential (access to username or password is not required)
- Default VMware Administrator role has new credential permissions
- Support for Oracle Copilot with multiple universal shares
- Using Azure recovery points with Snapshot Manager
- Single file restore from a backup of snapshot
- Elastic media server provides autoscaling of replicas
- Documentation changes
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.2 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- If NetBackup 10.2 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log folder structure
- Information for NetBackup native installs and upgrades is incorrect in the installation and upgrade guides
- Native installation requirements
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
- Job actions not available for workload administrators with limited RBAC permissions on assets
- 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 Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes
- CentOS repository mirror URL is updated
- NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service times out in the haproxy connection
- Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
- NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
- Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
- Unable to connect to NetBackup primary 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
- 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
Prerequisites for upgrading to NetBackup 10.2
Internal testing shows that the upgrade process may be faster than for previous releases. However, be prepared to allow for extra time for the database conversion during the upgrade process. Refer to the NetBackup Upgrade Guide for full details and time estimates for the database conversion.
As part of the upgrade to NetBackup 10.2, the following prerequisites exist:
Veritas strongly recommends that before you upgrade, you run the nbdb_admin -validate command and resolve any issues that are reported.
Veritas recommends that you run the database precheck tool to identify any potential data issues before you upgrade NetBackup. See https://sort.veritas.com/utility/nbdb-utf8-check for instructions about how to use the precheck tool.
For the best performance of the database precheck tool, install the EEB Hotfix for the nbdb_unload utility. See the following article:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD714038
Veritas recommends that you search for the
pgsql_utf8_error.txtfile after the successful upgrade of the active node of a clustered primary server. Notification of invalid UTF-8 characters is not displayed on clustered servers. Details on the location of this file are found in the Solution section of this technical article: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100055347Veritas recommends that you defragment the NetBackup database before upgrade to improve the overall conversion experience. See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for additional information on the option to defragment the database.
You must run a catalog backup within 24 hours of the upgrade.
Ensure that you have the free disk space that is twice the size of the NetBackup database.
Also refer to the Appendix NetBackup installation requirements in this guide.