Veritas NetBackup™ Emergency Engineering Binary Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.2, 8.3.0.1, 8.3)

Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.3.0.2

Table: Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.3.0.2 contains a listing of known issues with NetBackup that were identified, fixed, and made available to customers in the form of an emergency engineering binary (EEB). NetBackup 8.3.0.2 resolves the issues that were fixed with each of these EEBs.

More information on the Etracks that are listed in this topic (and any other service request Etrack) can be found using the Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website.

https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup

Table: Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.3.0.2

Etrack Number

EEB Description

3956103, version 24, 23

The EEB bundle contains the fixes for MSDP issues on NetBackup 8.1.2

3956754, version 18

The EEB bundle contains fixes for CloudCatalyst issues on NetBackup 8.1.1.

3958410, version 18, 17

The EEB bundle contains fixes for CloudCatalyst issues on NetBackup 8.1.

3958437, version 16

The EEB bundle contains fixes for CloudCatalyst issues on NetBackup 8.1.2.

3981837, version 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18

The EEB bundle contains fixes for Cloud Catalyst issues on NetBackup 8.2.

3983247

VXupdate shuts down vmd.exe without checking to see if it is a Veritas process.

3989733

nbdisco crashes on the primary server after upgrading NetBackup to 8.2

3996929

Access violation occurred in bpbkar32.exe during a VMware incremental backup.

4000786

Due to high isolation level, sometimes data fetching by NBPEM fails while waiting for its turn to perform isolated transaction.

4004937

OpsCenter view nom_Driveusage shows wrong media server (vmhost).

4007413

Mapping volumes fails if ESP is set to anything other than the first partition.

4008387

Isilon NDMP backup fails with Error bpbrm (pid=327932) db_FLISTsend failed: network connection timed out (41)

4009129

This EEB will fix issues related to scenario where Image Metadata is associated with Bootvolume.

4009386

Unable to complete defragmentation of OpsCenter 8.2 database on RHEL server.

4009877, version 3, 2, 1

bpjobd optimizations for primary servers with slow ingest from providers, plus debugging.

4010886

Fixes vulnerable JARs.

4010952

NDMP backups failing with status 99 and in the log unimplemented error code 114.

4011563

Bpdown.exe is failing with status 5, due to some performance snapshot validations failing even though all services seems to be down. It causes JRE upgrade to roll back and ends up stopping NetBackup upgrade to latest version.

4011860

Mapping volumes fails if ESP is set to anything other than the first partition.

4012536

Bpdown.exe is failing with status 5, due to some performance snapshot validations failing even though all services seems to be down. It causes JRE upgrade to roll back and ends up stopping NetBackup upgrade to latest version.

4012550

When NAS-Data-Protection policy is in use, NBDeployUtil fails to generate the usage reports for traditional licensing. This applies to the manual mode and scheduled mode of NBDeployUtil.

4012607

Tomcat version 9.0.33 is reported as vulnerable, updating Tomcat to 9.0.37.

4013208

All backups fail after upgrade to NetBackup 8.3 due to machine alias for shortname/fqdn of primary server missing. When machine alias is entered manually, it again disappears after NetBackup services restarts.

4013388

NDMP Accelerator Enabled backups fails with status 13.

4013555

Unable to edit VM query staring with NOT in basic mode.

4013559

Nbdeployutil may fail to generate usage reports for traditional licensing. When 'NAS-Data-Protection' policy is in use, Nbdeployutil would fail to generate the usage reports for traditional licensing.

4013774

After upgrade to 8.3, catalog backup is completes partially successfully.

4013835

RHV 4.4 support in 8.3

4013916

Veritas Smart Meter capacity usage shows around 3 times after upgrading to NetBackup 8.3 (largest currently appears to be Oracle usage).

4014063

Restores fail due to the primary server being selected over a media server for tape drive resources.

4014381

Universal Share deduplication issue occurs with Azure Cloud

4014636

Restoration to original location fails with error code 2820.

4014637

Restoration to original location failing with EC 2820.

4015088

Upgrades Apache Shiro JARs to version 1.6.0.

4015206

Duplicate client entries/VM alias appear in OpsCenter reports after upgrade to NetBackup 8.3.

4015692

MariaDB backups does not always return the correct error code. At times, NetBackup returns status 0 even when job fails.

4015902

nbdeployutil - Capacity Report shows false data

4015947, version 4, 3, 2, 1

The EEB bundle contains fixes for Cloud Catalyst and MSDP Direct Cloud Tiering issues on NetBackup 8.3.0.1.

4016062

Accelerator Forced rescan backup completed with status 1. There is a known issue with NetApp filers where they give 'old' dates and it has been seen where the DUMP_DATE returned comes before the DUMP_DATE performed on the previous incremental.

4016087

RHV 4.4 support in 8.3.0.1

4016286, version 2, 1

Accelerated NDMP images fail with status code 13 due to inode corruption in images. Enable logging to dump BITS and CLRI map.

4016519

nbdiscover crashes when certain value is NULL

4017052

Corrects problem in NetBackup 8.3 where multiplexed backups to tape are no longer restorable in a domain with a Solaris SPARC primary server. Stops duplication jobs from silently creating corrupt copies of said images.

4017208

bpsetconfig / nbsetconfig are not updating entries for ACCELERATOR_TRACKLOG_FREE_SPACE_PERCENT or ACCELERATOR_TRACKLOG_FREE_SPACE_MB

4017325

Updates spring and common JARs on media server and client.

4017506

Cannot edit VM query starting with NOT.

4017615

bperror CLI reports 'Failed to execute workflow for vmware (2) with request.....'

4017858

After upgrade to 8.3, catalog backup completes partially successfully.

4017957

Universal Share deduplication issue occurs with Azure Cloud.

4018148

Imported images have their retention level set to Infinite when import SLP uses target retention.

4018358

Duplicate client entries/VM alias appear in OpsCenter reports after upgrade to NetBackup 8.3.

4018459

Custom OpsCenter report not displaying expected number of down tape drives.

4018478

For Opscenter version 8.3.0.1, unable to remove objects from Primary Server and Policy views. Delete From Node button remains greyed out or disabled.

4018738, version 1

Required storage unit is not available after upgrade to 8.3.

4018864

Vulnerability is found in itext JAR shipped with OpsCenter.

4019082

EEB contains fix for following: Report window period goes beyond 90 days, Unhandled backup selection format for Oracle.

4019201

Universal share deduplication issue occurs with Azure Cloud.

4019316

With NetBackup 8.2, NDMP Full accelerated backups fail error codes 13, 25 and 233.

4019326

Corrects problem in NetBackup 8.3 where multiplexed backups to tape are no longer restorable in a domain with a Solaris SPARC primary server. Stops duplication jobs from silently creating corrupt copies of said images.

4019473

VxUpdate upgrade of a Windows client fails due to bpps process running.

4019559

The VMDK compression doesn't seem to be working. Not all calls to open the VMDK use the data compression flags.

4019661

When using NBWSS WebSocket channel to invoke NetBackup REST APIs with sensitive request/response body such as credentials.

4019663

When using NBWSS WebSocket channel to invoke NetBackup REST APIs with sensitive request/response body such as credentials.

4019704

When aged third-party backup snapshots are present in Nutanix Prism, if the policy contain Deferential and Full schedule, then stale snapshots are observed on the cluster.

4019812

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4019819

Updates Tomcat to 9.0.38 or higher to resolve CVE-2020-13943 for OpsCenter version 8.2.

4019858

Universal share deduplication issue occurs with Azure Cloud.

4020077

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4020306

Capacity of clients/servers protected using NetBackup Self Service in usage reports.

4020307

Capacity of clients/servers protected using NetBackup Self Service in usage reports

4020308

Capacity of clients/servers protected using NetBackup Self Service in usage reports.

4020455

Secure information from nbdeployutil appears in the admin log file.

4020493

iSCSI disks are ignored during Windows BMR restore.

4020525

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4020533

Windows NTFS mapping fix for low numbered File IDs seen on some systems.

4020631

Fixes an issue in credential fetching caused by a passphrase that is too long.

4020696

Fixes issues in full and differential backups of universal share and Enables Windows ACLs support on universal share of type SMB.

4021146

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4021177

Tomcat version 9.0.37 shipped with NetBackup affected by CVE vulnerability

4021200

Quota doe not displaying the correct data usage size due to a special AD user account issue.

4021217

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4021284

Jobs delayed starting especially when duplication jobs are started on a Windows primary server with NBAC enabled.

4021310

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4021344

Hbase backup failed with error 13 if hbase.rootdir has cluster namespace of NameNode in hbase.site.xml for hbase.rootdir

4021422

Mapping volumes failed if ESP is set to anything other than the first partition.

4021447

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4021453

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4021454

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4021693

bpbkar32.exe crashes during VMware INCR backup when getting metadata info from a particular size of VMDK.

4021698

Fixed the identifying language name from msi so that it can copy/install the required language specific files in SRT from language pack.

4021722

Universal Share deduplication issue occurs with Azure Cloud.

4021826

OpsCenter Data collection Failed for SLP Image

4021867

Incremental NBDEPLOYUTIL stops working

4021901

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4022061

In the NetBackup web UI and via APIs, fetching storage unit fails with the message "failed to fetch storage unit details".

4022116

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR

4022185

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR.

4022198

Unable to complete defragmentation of OpsCenter database.

4022299

bpbkar32.exe crashes during VMware INCR backup when getting metadata info from a particular size of VMDK.

4022378

CVE vulnerability found in Tomcat.

4022733

Restore request with large number of files via bprestore causes bpdbm to consume all of primary server memory.

4022764

Bpdown.exe is failing with status 5, due to some performance snapshot validations failing even though all services seems to be down. It causes JRE upgrade to roll back and ends up stopping NetBackup upgrade to latest version.

4022878

Vulnerability found in itext JAR shipped with OpsCenter 8.3.0.1.

4022884

Browse from pre 8.3 Snapshots fails due to missing tag for QueryAllocatedBlocks in Vix configuration file.

4022987

Capacity (FETB) values for clients/servers protected using NetBackup Self Service (NSS) in usage reports and Usage Insights or Smart Meter.

4023040

Unable to 'Delete from Node' in Settings - Views - Objects on Node as option is greyed out.

4023056

Acceleration not occurring across LSUs when using multi-volume diskgroup

4023131

Unable to complete defragmentation of OpsCenter database.

4023134

Security vulnerability found in older version of tomcat, upgrading to 9.0.40.

4023159

NDMP Direct Copy Duplication to a tape storage unit fails with status code 191 during tape spanning.

4023611

VMware Backups with Replication Director Fails with Exit Status 196.

4023658, version 1

After ECA setup on a primary server, delays are encountered, causing backups to not move forward.

4023752

Oracle RAC DB restore to original server fails with error 'server exited with status 227: no entity was found'

4023793

OpsCenter displays incorrect details intermittently.

4024069

pspOpenSSL Windows build uses an insecure OPENSSLDIR - NetBackup client

4024241

Media not getting released if restore is done from backup spanning Media and when client is identified as SAN client but no FT is found.

4024249

Fixes .f file path getting cleared too early resulting in .f files not being cleaned up properly.

4024335

HP LTO-8 tape drives fail to mount/write WORM media.

4024371

Enabling FIPS for Cloud Storage results in backup failure.

4026419, version 1

Bundle EEB for: - Acceleration not occurring across LSUs when using multi-volume diskgroup. - Getting error in webui when configure mutiple volumes in diskpool of ost device.

4026445

MariaDB backups does not always return the correct error code.

4026507

BMR fails to restore Windows client having iSCSI disks.

4026558

VMware snapshot state files are not getting cleaned

4026988

Restoring a VM with SAN transport mode fails with Error 2820.

4027087

After upgrading to NetBackup 8.3, SQL databases running in single user mode fail with status code 6.

4027159

Duplicate client entries/VM alias appear in OpsCenter reports after upgrade to 8.3.

4027300

Jobs are delayed starting especially when duplication jobs are started on a Windows primary server with NBAC enabled.

4027539

This EEB provides security requirements for upgrading Apache Tomcat version to 9.0.40 on NetBackup 9.0.

4027673

Unable to filter cloud assets using 'lastDiscoveredTime' property

4027944

Snapshot removal fix for Snapshot Status 1 jobs with large amounts of metadata.

4027979

Oracle Intelligent Policy and SQL Intelligent Policy may run the wrong schedule for an instance after a failure. If the policy contains multiple instances or an instance group and multiple schedules Full/Archive/TLOG are supposed to run at the same time.

4028002

VMware snapshot state files are not getting cleaned

4028310

Errors occur while duplicating images to MSDP Cloud when Amazon Glacier is configured.

4028486

Support for volume_image_metadata is added

4028517

OpsCenter is using the wrong client names

4028637, version 1

providing tomcat 9.0.43 NetBackup 8.2 to mitigate vulnerabilities

4028685

NetBackup Windows installation process hangs or never finishes initializing.

4028759

nbdeployutil report does not complete

4028775

HP LTO-8 tape drives fail to mount/write WORM media.

4028890

NetBackup NDMP Isilon Weekly backups fail with an status 41 error.

4028944

Oracle backup via OpsCenter fails with 239 when multiple instances are configured in a policy.

4028991

Allows deferred duplication of import copy in target domain.

4029061, version 1

bplist fails with status 227 No Entity found with single file search for Oracle backup.

4029066

Duplicate records in automated data collection cause inflated FETB values in capacity report.

4029596

security vulnerability found in older version of tomcat, upgrading to 9.0.43

4029616, version 1

Upgraded Shiro 1.7.1 to fix CVE-2020-17523 on NetBackup 8.2 primary server.

4029669

NetBackup 8.1 Client is skipping /var/tmp during backup.

4029830

HP LTO-8 tape drives fail to mount/write WORM media.

4029978

Unable to add extra drive to Netbackup Java GUI on primary even though there are currently less than 256.

4030014, version 4, 3, 2, 1

The EEB bundle contains fixes for Cloud Catalyst and MSDP Direct Cloud Tiering issues on NetBackup 8.3.

4030314

Restore of large number of files using bprestore command fail with status 42.

4030336

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information.

4030341

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information.

4030343

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information.

4030376

Windows user having password expiry more than 30 days will not be displayed correctly. It will be displayed after deducting 30 days from total password expiry on user information dialog box.

4030619

nbdisco service crashes frequently on the primary server

4030627

bpsetconfig / nbsetconfig are not updating entries for ACCELERATOR_TRACKLOG_FREE_SPACE_PERCENT or ACCELERATOR_TRACKLOG_FREE_SPACE_MB

4030628

'Exclude swap and paging files' option in NetBackup VMware backup policy only excludes first page file.

4030666

Adds ability to search based on display name in web UI Activity Monitor.

4030834

VxUpdate upgrades of clients with a noexec /tmp directory fail.

4030893

Fix to cleanup VM on a failed vCloud Director import.

4030941

After ECA setup on a primary server, delays are encountered, causing backups to not move forward due to large numbers of entries in CRL file.

4031123

OpsCenter reports incorrectly show dates in the future when using Time Frame Group by of Weeks of Year

4031137, version 2, 1

The EEB bundle contains fixes for MSDP Direct Cloud Tiering issues on NetBackup 9.0.

4031395

After upgrading CentOS based OpenStack setup, backup / restore is failing as new WebServer is sending non-standard response to APIs

4031563

Enterprise Vault 14 backups with MSSQL 2019 fail with status 130

4031611

OpsCenter view nom_Driveusage shows wrong media server (vmhost)

4032167

Providing tomcat 9.0.43 Netbackup 8.3.0.1 to mitigate vulnerabilities

4032242

Backup is forced for every Differential Incremental backup when TIR Enabled. As a result, the size of bpbkar logs grows quickly with 'detected renamed/new file' message when the file list is very large.

4032294

CVE Vulnerability found in Apache Tomcat

4032321

8.3.0.1 NBDeployutil Capacity Report failing

4032565

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information.

4032886

CVE vulnerability found in apache tomcat shipped with opscenter

4032926

Oracle backup via Opscenter fails with 239 when multiple instances configured in policy

4032942

Unable to log in to the NetBackup Administration Console with non-admin user. bpjava-msvc.exe experiences a core dump.

4033018

vxupdate unable to identify bpps process binary path

4033025

NetBackup Windows installation process hangs or never finishes initializing.

4033200

bpjobd optimizations for primary servers, related touch file tuning for media servers.

4033203

upgrading tomcat to 9.0.43 on NetBackup 8.1.2

4033330

NetBackup for MSSQL metadata job is spawned for incorrect client hostname

4033371

Adds ability to search based on display name in web UI Activity Monitor.

4033614

Restoring a VM with SAN transport mode fails with Error 2820.

4033665

MongoDB backup failed with 'The snapshot could not be created. (6658)' if the VG name includes '-' character.

4033757

When CC server is running as target of duplication or AIR, job fail and in spoold session log there are errors like _dcOpen: can not open file: ***.bin (Input/output error) *** _soStore: caught CR exception: I/O error.

4033853

duplicate client entries/VM alias in opscenter reports after upgrade to 8.3

4033858

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information.

4033913

When logging in to NetBackup Web UI, if the password has a 'less than' character, the following error message appears: An invalid API request is encountered.

4034657

NDMP backups are not showing up in nbdeployutil report

4034678, version 2, 1

EEB bundle to solve the NetBackup WEB UI and APIs, fetching storage server and storage units fails.

4034848

Upgrading Apache Tomcat version 9.0.46 on NetBackup 8.1.1.

4034869

OpsCenter reports incorrectly show dates in the future when using Time Frame Group by of Weeks of Year

4034967

NDMP images written with direct access restore could fail to restore.

4035055

Backup is forced for every Differential Incremental backup when TIR Enabled. As a result the size of Netbackup bpbkar logs grows fast with 'detected renamed/new file' messages even at low logging levels.

4035120

Fixes JQuery Vulnerbiliy on OpsCenter 9.0.

4035231

ADK 8.1 download and installation link is removed by Microsoft. This fix will solve the issue by using ADK 10 for SRT creation.

4035403, version 1

S-SQL Server backups in a clustered, multi-NIC environment fail with status 239 because an incorrect client name used for backup. The EEB bundles this fix along with the fix for "NetBackup for MSSQL metadata job is spawned for incorrect client hostname."

4035409

When the installagent attempts to access large registry keys on windows hosts, the agent crashes, due to an internal buffer that is incorrectly sized. This is a windows specific defect.

4035508

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information.

4035556

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information

4035671

Asset cleanup not completing successfully throwing an exception error stating SQL statement can not be executed.

4035779

VXUpdate failing with status 7226: Cant write to C:\long_path_with_more_than_260_char

4036271

CVE vulnerability found Tomcat Apache shipped with NetBackup

4036296

Instant access restore fails with parsing error due to syncTimeWithHostAllowed

4036318

When performing VMDK restore, bprd times out. bprd was incorrectly being invoked without passing a timeout, resulting in a 30-second timeout being used. This EEB addresses it by including the appropriate 5-minute default timeout.

4036366, version 1

Microsoft has removed ADK 8.1 download link. The customers who don't have already downloaded/installed ADK 8.1, will be blocked from using Windows BMR restores.

4036367

ADK 8.1 download and installation link is removed by Microsoft. If it's not already downloaded/installed, you won't be able to perform Windows BMR restores.

4036832

Restoring a VM with SAN transport mode fails with Error 2820.

4037078

The customers who haven't already downloaded and installed ADK 8.1 are not able to create Windows SRT and cannot perform Windows BMR restore.

4037140

Need EEB to upgrade Tomcat version to 9.0.43 on OpsCenter 8.2

4037296

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information.

4037448

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information

4037529

Updates JRE version to 291.

4038051

Update JRE version to 291.

4038312

nbstl -L is dumping core when nbac is enabled.

4038500

Snapshot removal fix for Snapshot Status 1 jobs with large amounts of metadata.

4038909

Support for additional license types in usage reporting.

4039021

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information

4039066

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information.

4039158

Oracle restore fails with error 'Server Status: file open failed' on pre-9.1 client and 9.1+ primary server and logging into the BAR GUI as root

4039161

nbdisco service crashes frequently on the primary server

4039184

Support for SAP Hana BRINT 1.5

4039392

Improvements in traditional licensing report for virtualization related information

4039494

VxUpdate for 8.3.0.1 hangs on Winodws platforms and logs constantly until the FS becomes full

4039589, version 2

SQL databases running in single user mode fail with status code 6, and MS-SQL Server backups in clustered, multi-nic environment failing with status code 239.

4039605

Fix for: nbdeployutil incremental report creates a blank line in Capacity_Itemization.out - causing the licensing API call to fail with HTTP error 500

4040087

After ECA setup on a primary server, delays are encountered, causing backups to not move forward - Flex specific.

4040106

Oracle restore fails with error 'Server Status: file open failed' on pre-9.1 client and 9.1+ primary server and logging into the BAR GUI as root.

4040154

HP LTO-8 tape drives fail to mount/write WORM media.

4040210, version 1

Java GUI Security Issue.

4040252

Java GUI security issue.

4040387

Support for SAP Hana BRINT 1.5

4040388

Support for SAP Hana BRINT 1.5

4040389

Support for SAP Hana BRINT 1.5

4040397

Support for SAP Hana BRINT 1.5

4040970, version 3, 2, 1

The EEB bundle contains fixes for MSDP issues on NetBackup 9.1

4040994, version 1

Java GUI security issue.

4041643

Restoring a VM with SAN transport mode fails with Error 2820.

4042104

VXUpdate failing with status 7272: Cant write to C:\long_path_with_more_than_260_char

4043310

MSSQL backup jobs failing with STATUS CODE 239

4043724

NetInsight is reporting incorrect sizes for NDMP images