NetBackup™ Release Notes

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.3.0.1)
  1. About NetBackup 10.3.0.1
    1.  
      About the NetBackup 10.3.0.1 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 10.3.0.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
      1.  
        Changes in Veritas terminology
      2.  
        Data collector registration using the NetBackup web UI
      3.  
        NetBackup 10.3.0.1 support additions and changes
      4.  
        Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
      5.  
        Isolated recovery environment is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server NetBackup BYO
      6.  
        Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.3.0.1
      7.  
        NetBackup supports virtual machines within Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) deployments
      8.  
        NetBackup Dedupe Direct for Oracle plug-in support for Flex Scale
  3. Operational notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup 10.3.0.1 operational notes
    2. NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
      1.  
        If NetBackup 10.3.0.1 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
      2.  
        Policies using Replication Director fail with error code 4224
      3.  
        Failed to get response from NetBackup malware utility
    4. NetBackup administration interface operational notes
      1.  
        Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in Catalog area
      2.  
        Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
      3.  
        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.  
        After PIT restore, "The host ID does not exist" error appears
      2.  
        AIX BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) creation fails in NetBackup 10.3.0.1
      3.  
        NetBackup services may not start automatically after BMR restore on a Linux client
    6. NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes
      1.  
        Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 10.3 to 10.1 does not work
      2.  
        For Azure, backups fail when an older policy is updated with a new backup host
      3.  
        Replicated backups cannot be restored to older NetBackup versions
    7. NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)
      1.  
        Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs
      2.  
        Verifying the storage array certificate
    8. NetBackup NAS operational notes
      1.  
        Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP incremental image
      2.  
        RD storage units are not listed as Replication targets
    9. 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.  
        Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
      4.  
        NetBackup primary server does not re-issue the token if NetBackup VM is a 3-node cluster
      5.  
        Success message appears along with the error message when you delete the policy that has snapshots
      6.  
        Unable to connect to NetBackup primary server using NBCA
      7.  
        Excluded Ceph Volume after restore is not mountable or formattable
      8.  
        Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached
      9.  
        NBOSVM reconfig fails when you add new NetBackup VM to the cluster
      10.  
        Database does not sync after NetBackup cluster gets new nodes
      11.  
        Data on boot disk gets backed up despite exclusion
      12.  
        After reinitialization and import, OpenStack certificates are missing
      13.  
        CLI import changes scheduler trust value to disabled
      14.  
        Unable to get node details after you reinitialize the NetBackup Appliance
      15.  
        No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone URL
    10. 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 10.3.0.1 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

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.

Using SORT

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.

About changes in platform compatibility

The NetBackup 10.3.0.1 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.

See About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup.

http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility