NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 10.3
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 10.3 new features, changes, and enhancements
- Changes in Veritas terminology
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.3
- Introducing universal share accelerator
- Restore logs in the NetBackup web UI and location of restore logs
- Restore types added to NetBackup web UI for MS-Windows, Standard, and VMware policy types
- Recovery for additional policy types added to the NetBackup web UI
- NetBackup web UI new policy features
- Enhancements in system anomaly detection
- Entropy computation in NetBackup
- About multi-person authorization
- About multi-factor authentication
- Certificate-based transport layer security (TLS) authentication
- NetBackup 10.3 support additions and changes
- Support for AWS Snowball Edge
- End of life (EOL) for the Enhanced Auditing feature in NetBackup
- End of life (EOL) for the NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) authorization model in NetBackup
- Protecting assets with Snapshot Manager's agentless restore feature will require Microsoft Windows Server 2019 or later
- NetBackup for OpenStack support for CentOS has ended
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- License file required for upgrade
- Upgrades to NetBackup 10.3 may take a long time
- Before upgrade, default credentials category is NONE
- Data-in-transit encryption (DTE) mode is set to 'Preferred On' by default
- Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.3
- Additional permissions added for new features
- Integrate MSDP Cloud credentials into NetBackup generic Credential Management System
- MSDP Cloud is now supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Cloud Catalyst to MSDP Cloud migration is not supported on 10.3 MSDP servers
- New features for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
- New features for NetBackup for Oracle
- Upgrading to Snapshot Manager for Data Center 10.3 for Qumulo plug-in users
- New D-NAS features
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 10.3 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
- NetBackup NAS 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
About compatibility between NetBackup versions
You can run mixed versions of NetBackup between primary servers, media servers, and clients. This back-level support lets you upgrade NetBackup one server at a time, which minimizes the effect on overall system performance.
Veritas supports only certain combinations of servers and clients. In mixed version environments, certain computers must be the highest version. Specifically, the version order is: primary server, media server, and then clients. For example, the scenario that is shown is supported: 10.0 primary server > 9.0 media server > 8.3.0.1 client.
All NetBackup versions are four digits long. The NetBackup 10.0 release is the 10.0.0.0 release. Likewise, the NetBackup 9.1 release is the NetBackup 9.1.0.0 release. For the purposes of supportability, the fourth digit is ignored. A 9.1 primary server supports a 9.1.0.1 media server. An example of what is not supported is a 9.1 primary server with a 10.0 media server.
The NetBackup catalog resides on the primary server. Therefore, the primary server is considered to be the client for a catalog backup. If your NetBackup configuration includes a media server, it must use the same NetBackup version as the primary server to perform a catalog backup.
For complete information about compatibility between NetBackup versions, refer to the Veritas SORT website.
Veritas recommends that you review the End of Support Life information available online.