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 Contents

Chapter 1 About NetBackup 10.5 ...................................................... 8

About the NetBackup 10.5 release ..................................................... 8

About NetBackup Late Breaking News ............................................... 9
About NetBackup third-party legal notices ........................................... 9

Chapter 2 New features, enhancements, and changes ............. 10

About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup ......................... 10
NetBackup 10.5 new features, changes, and enhancements ................. 11
Changes in Veritas terminology ................................................. 12
RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.5 ................................... 13
Updates to the nbdb2adutl command ......................................... 14
Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI ..................... 14
New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web
UI .................................................................................. 14
New features for NetBackup for DB2 .......................................... 15
New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
..................................................................................... 15
Managing policies for cloud assets ............................................. 16
Cloud Scale and decoupling of Cloud Scale ................................. 16
Support for tape as a media option for Kubernetes workloads
using Kubernetes policies .................................................. 17
NetBackup 10.5 support additions and changes ........................... 17
Minimum operating system versions ........................................... 18
Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
..................................................................................... 18
Multi-person authorization support for encryption key management
and API key operations ...................................................... 18
BMR support for Cloud VM Recovery in AWS .............................. 19
Support for TLS 1.3 protocol ..................................................... 19
Support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) with Microsoft Azure
and Amazon Web Services (AWS) ....................................... 19
Support for viewing hash values of malware infected files and
malware ......................................................................... 19
Support of disk type Premium SSD v2 for NetBackup Snapshot
Manager Microsoft Azure plug-in ......................................... 20
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Support of SSL/TLS for Proxy Service ........................................ 20

Support for double encryption method in Azure ............................. 20
Support for regional endpoint in Amazon Web Services .................. 20
End of life (EOL) for NetBackup for OpenStack – PSF ................... 20
Support for Cloud-Object-Store workload type for malware
scanning ........................................................................ 21
Support for cross-cloud provider restore ...................................... 21
Client push staging area no longer populated ............................... 21
About binaries installed on primary and media servers ................... 21
Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately
after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5 ............................. 21
NetBackup protection for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) ............. 22
Private key encryption support .................................................. 22
About security configuration risk ................................................ 23
Changes to NetBackup guide titles ............................................. 23

Chapter 3 Operational notes .............................................................. 24

About NetBackup 10.5 operational notes ........................................... 24

NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes ......................... 25
If NetBackup 10.5 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous
log folder structure ............................................................ 25
Native installation requirements ................................................. 25
NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with
RFC 1123 and RFC 952 .................................................... 26
About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers ................. 26
NetBackup administration and general operational notes ...................... 27
Intelligent catalog archiving (ICA) is not supported for MSDP cloud
..................................................................................... 27
For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job
database before upgrade ................................................... 27
Policies using Replication Director fail with error code 4224 ............ 27
NetBackup administration interface operational notes .......................... 28
Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in
Catalog area ................................................................... 28
Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration
Console ......................................................................... 29
NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese
UTF-8 locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris
10 Update 2 or later .......................................................... 29
NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes .................. 29
Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 10.5
requires NetBackup 10.2 or later ......................................... 29
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For Azure, backups fail when an older policy is updated with a

new backup host .............................................................. 30
Replicated backups cannot be restored to older NetBackup
versions ......................................................................... 30
NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint) ........... 30
Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS
Marketplaces AMIs ........................................................... 30
NetBackup database and application agent operational notes ............... 30
NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server operational notes .................. 31
NetBackup for VMware operational notes .................................... 31
NetBackup NAS operational notes ................................................... 31
Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an
NDMP incremental image .................................................. 32
RD storage units are not listed as Replication targets ..................... 32
NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes ...................................... 32
NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service
times out in the haproxy connection ..................................... 32
Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted
..................................................................................... 33
Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached ............. 33
No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled
Keystone URL ................................................................ 33
NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from
Horizon UI after stack is updated ......................................... 33
NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes ........... 33
Support for localized environments in database and application
agents ........................................................................... 34
Certain NetBackup user-defined strings must not contain non-US
ASCII characters .............................................................. 34

Appendix A About SORT for NetBackup Users ............................... 36

About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools ...................... 36

Appendix B NetBackup installation requirements ........................... 38

About NetBackup installation requirements ........................................ 38
Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup ............ 39
NetBackup 10.5 binary sizes ........................................................... 40

Appendix C NetBackup compatibility requirements ....................... 42

About compatibility between NetBackup versions ................................ 42

About NetBackup compatibility lists and information ............................ 43
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About NetBackup end-of-life notifications .......................................... 43

Appendix D Other NetBackup documentation and related

documents ..................................................................... 45
About related NetBackup documents ................................................ 45
 Chapter 1
About NetBackup 10.5
This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About the NetBackup 10.5 release

■ About NetBackup Late Breaking News

■ About NetBackup third-party legal notices

About the NetBackup 10.5 release

The NetBackup Release Notes document is meant to act as a snapshot of
information about a version of NetBackup at the time of its release. Old information
and any information that no longer applies to a release is either removed from the
release notes or migrated elsewhere in the NetBackup documentation set.
See “About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup” on page 10.

About EEBs and release content

NetBackup 10.5 incorporates fixes to many of the known issues that affected
customers in previous versions of NetBackup. Some of these fixes are associated
with the customer-specific issues. Several of the customer-related fixes that were
incorporated into this release were also made available as emergency engineering
binaries (EEBs).
Listings of the EEBs and Etracks that document the known issues that have been
fixed in NetBackup 10.5 can be found on the Veritas Operations Readiness Tools
(SORT) website and in the NetBackup Emergency Engineering Binary Guide.
See “About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools” on page 36.

About NetBackup appliance releases

The NetBackup appliances run a software package that includes a preconfigured
version of NetBackup. When a new appliance software release is developed, the
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latest version of NetBackup is used as a basis on which the appliance code is built.
For example, NetBackup Appliance 3.1 is based on NetBackup 8.1 This development
model ensures that all applicable features, enhancements, and fixes that were
released within NetBackup are included in the latest release of the appliance.
The NetBackup appliance software is released at the same time as the NetBackup
release upon which it is based, or soon thereafter. If you are a NetBackup appliance
customer, make sure to review the NetBackup Release Notes that correspond to
the NetBackup appliance version that you plan to run.
Appliance-specific documentation is available at the following location:
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About NetBackup Late Breaking News

For the most recent NetBackup news and announcements, visit the NetBackup
Late Breaking News website at the following location:
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Other NetBackup-specific information can be found at the following location:
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About NetBackup third-party legal notices

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 Chapter 2
New features,
enhancements, and
changes
This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup

■ NetBackup 10.5 new features, changes, and enhancements

About new enhancements and changes in

NetBackup
In addition to new features and product fixes, NetBackup releases often contain
new customer-facing enhancements and changes. Examples of common
enhancements include new platform support, upgraded internal software
components, interface changes, and expanded feature support. Most new
enhancements and changes are documented in the NetBackup Release Notes and
the NetBackup compatibility lists.

Note: The NetBackup Release Notes only lists the new platform support that begins
at a particular NetBackup version level at the time of its release. However, Veritas
routinely backdates platform support to previous versions of NetBackup. Refer to
the NetBackup Compatibility List for all Versions for the most up-to-date platform
support listings.

See “About the NetBackup 10.5 release” on page 8.

See “About NetBackup compatibility lists and information” on page 43.
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NetBackup 10.5 new features, changes, and enhancements

NetBackup 10.5 new features, changes, and

enhancements
New features, changes, and enhancements in NetBackup 10.5 are grouped below
by category. Select a link to read more information about the topic.

New features
■ Changes in Veritas terminology
■ RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.5
■ Updates to the nbdb2adutl command
■ Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI
■ New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web UI
■ New features for NetBackup for DB2
■ New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
■ Managing policies for cloud assets
■ Cloud Scale and decoupling of Cloud Scale

Secure communication features, changes, and

enhancements
■
Note: Before you install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5 from a release earlier
than 8.1, make sure that you read and understand the NetBackup Read This
First for Secure Communications document. NetBackup 8.1 includes many
enhancements that improve the secure communications of NetBackup
components. The NetBackup Read This First for Secure Communications
document describes the features and benefits of these enhancements:
NetBackup Read This First for Secure Communications

■ Private key encryption support

■ About security configuration risk

Support changes and enhancements

■ NetBackup 10.5 support additions and changes
■ Minimum operating system versions
■ Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
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■ Multi-person authorization support for encryption key management and API key
operations
■ BMR support for Cloud VM Recovery in AWS
■ Support for TLS 1.3 protocol
■ Support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) with Microsoft Azure and Amazon
Web Services (AWS)
■ Support for viewing hash values of malware infected files and malware
■ Support of disk type Premium SSD v2 for NetBackup Snapshot Manager
Microsoft Azure plug-in
■ Support of SSL/TLS for Proxy Service
■ Support for double encryption method in Azure
■ Support for regional endpoint in Amazon Web Services
■ End of life (EOL) for NetBackup for OpenStack – PSF

Installation, upgrade, and configuration changes and

enhancements
■ Client push staging area no longer populated
■ About binaries installed on primary and media servers

Cloud-related changes and enhancements

■ Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install
or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5
■ NetBackup protection for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Workload and database agent changes and enhancements

■ Support for tape as a media option for Kubernetes workloads using Kubernetes
policies

Documentation changes and enhancements

■ Changes to NetBackup guide titles

Changes in Veritas terminology

To modernize our terminology, Veritas has begun to replace certain outdated terms
with more current terms.
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Note: As Veritas continues to update its terminology, the deprecated terms and
the new terms may be used interchangeably.

Deprecated term New term

Master Primary

Slave Secondary or media server

Whitelist or white list Allowed list

Blacklist or black list Blocked list

White hat Ethical

Black hat Unethical

RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 10.5

NetBackup 10.5 includes both updated and new RESTful application programming
interfaces (APIs). These APIs are built on the Representational State Transfer
(REST) architecture. They provide a web-service-based interface that lets you
configure and administer NetBackup in your environments.

API documentation
You can find documentation for the NetBackup APIs in on SORT and on your
primary server. Make sure to review the Versioning topic and the What's New topic
in the Getting Started section.
■ On SORT:
NetBackup API documentation is available on SORT:
HOME > KNOWLEDGE BASE > Documents > Product Version > 10.5
Look under API Reference. A Getting Started document provides background
information about using NetBackup APIs. The API YAML files are also available
for reference, however, they are not functional. You cannot test the APIs from
the documents on SORT.
■ On your primary server:
APIs are stored in YAML files on the primary server:
https://<primary_server>/api-docs/index.html
The APIs are documented in Swagger format. This format lets you review the
code and test the functionality by making actual calls with the APIs. You must
have the appropriate security permissions to access the primary server and
APIs to use the Swagger APIs.
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Caution: Veritas recommends that you test APIs only in a development

environment. Because you can make actual API calls from the Swagger files,
you should not test the APIs in a production environment.

Updates to the nbdb2adutl command

NetBackup 10.5 includes updates to the nbdb2adutil command. The command now
includes enhanced access controls as well as added capabilities for query and
extract of database backup images. Additionally, it now requires a bpnbat logon to
use the command. Refer to the nbdb2adutil command in the NetBackup Commands
Reference Guide for additional details.

Changes to the dashboard in the NetBackup web UI

The NetBackup web UI includes changes to the appearance and functionality of
the Dashboard in the NetBackup web UI.
■ You can manually refresh the data for the following: Jobs, Backup anomaly
detection, Malware detection, Paused protection, Certificates, and Tokens. The
refresh control displays in the upper right corner of the widget.
■ The data in the Jobs widget updates every 30 seconds. If a manual refresh is
performed, the polling updates resume 30 seconds after that manual refresh.
■ The timeframe option (Last 24 hours, Last 48 hours, etc.) is moved to the
lower left corner of the applicable widgets.
■ For the Certificates widget, the NetBackup and External tabs are removed and
you can select the certificate type from the list in the lower left corner.

New features for NetBackup for VMware in the NetBackup web UI

The following features are available in this release:
■ When a user creates an RBAC role, they can select a datacenter as an asset
and apply RBAC permissions to it.
■ When a user manages a VMware server from the VMware servers tab, they
can manage the permissions for a datacenter.
■ You can grant RBAC permissions at the VM level using VMware vCloud Director
object hierarchy or the VMware Sphere (vCenter) object hierarchy. You can
apply permissions this way when you create a new role or when you select the
Manage permissions option for the VM.
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■ A new configuration option VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE_STATUS provides the ability

to change the status of the snapshot job from 0 to 1 (Partial success) when a
quiescence of a target VMware virtual machine fails. This change may affect
jobs whether you use the web UI or the Administration Console.

New features for NetBackup for DB2

The following features are available in this release:
■ The RBAC role named Default DB2 Administrator provides the permissions for
a DB2 administrator to view and restore DB2 backups with the command
nbdb2adutl. The administrator can also view and manage DB2 jobs.

■ The nbdb2adutl command adds the ability to query or extract DB2 backup
images from the NetBackup catalog.

New features and changes for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
The following features are available in this release:
■ A new command nbsqlcmd provides the ability to manage SQL Server assets
from the command-line. Note that any delegation privileges that were configured
with the command nbsqladm -add_dba are not converted to RBAC.
Administrators must separately apply the needed RBAC role or roles to SQL
Server administrators.
■ Added the recovery option Disconnect active users to disconnect any active
users before a restore operation runs.
Announcement of future changes:
■ In an upcoming release the use of the command nbsqladm will be disabled. The
bp.conf entry ENABLE_NBSQLADM will be disabled by default and not allow any
requests from nbsqladm. Administrators can enable the ENABLE_NBSQLADM option
if they choose.
■ Instance groups will be removed from the NetBackup Administration Console
and the NetBackup web UI in a future release.
The following items are deprecated in the NetBackup 10.5 release:
■ The command nbsqladm is deprecated.
The command-line options to configure instance groups and credentials are no
longer applicable and are not available with the new command nbsqlcmd.
The nbsqladm command is no longer part of the NetBackup 10.5 package but
is still supported for NetBackup clients that use NetBackup 10.4 and earlier.
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Managing policies for cloud assets

With this release of NetBackup 10.5, you can create policies in the NetBackup UI
that support cloud workload types (IaaS and PaaS). The policies are applied on
the workloads to protect the data that resides on the clients. You can perform
different operations on the policy such as add, edit, delete, or schedule a policy.
For more information, see the NetBackup Cloud Administrator’s Guide.

Cloud Scale and decoupling of Cloud Scale

With this release, the following describes the features, enhancements, and changes
for Cloud Scale and decoupling of Cloud Scale.

Cloud Scale
■ Cloud Scale deployment on a single node Kubernetes environment
Cloud Scale Technology can be deployed on the single node of a Kubernetes
cluster. This deployment provides a cost-effective solution as it requires only
one node in a Kubernetes cluster where all the Cloud Scale components are
easily deployed.
■ Cost optimization for Media server load balancers
Along with CPU and memory usage, the media server scale-out is also seen if
the jobs are found in queued state due to the maximum job per media server
settings.

Decoupling of Cloud Scale

■ Decoupling of Cloud Scale
Decoupling of NetBackup web services from primary server The NetBackup
web services are decoupled (dissociated) from the primary server in the Cloud
Scale Technology. This change has been made to containerize the web services
and run it as a standalone service pod in a Kubernetes cluster.
■ Consolidated log location in Cloud Scale using fluentbit
This feature lets you consolidate the log files that have been distributed
during the process of running NetBackup in a scale-out environment.
■ Decoupling of NetBackup Policy and Job Management (NBPEM/NBJM) from
primary server
The NetBackup policy and job management capabilities are decoupled from
the primary server and run as a separate service in a Kubernetes cluster.
■ NetBackup Authentication Broker (nbatd) service
Enabling the FIPS mode for nbatd: For Cloud Scale deployment, the nbatd
containerized service runs in a separate Kubernetes pod cluster server rather
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than the NetBackup primary server pod. Hence enable the FIPS mode for
the NetBackup Authentication Broker service.
AD/LDAP domain: For Cloud Scale deployment, the nbatd containerized
service runs in a separate Kubernetes pod cluster server rather than the
NetBackup primary server pod. Therefore, the existing AD/LDAP domain
configuration on the primary server Kubernetes pod does not work.
Reconfigure the AD/LDAP domain.

■ Request routing and load balancing for scale-out server

For NetBackup Cloud Scale deployment, with NetBackup deployed in a scale-out
form factor, a single endpoint called request router is created for external
requests to come into the system. The requests are distributed to the appropriate
services or individual instances of a service for processing.
For more information, see the NetBackup Deployment Guide for Kubernetes
Cluster.

Support for tape as a media option for Kubernetes workloads using

Kubernetes policies
NetBackup 10.5 now supports tape media backup and restore operations for
Kubernetes workloads through Kubernetes policies.

NetBackup 10.5 support additions and changes

Note: This information is subject to change. See the NetBackup Compatibility List
for all Versions for the most recent product and services support additions and
changes.

The following products and services are supported starting with NetBackup 10.5:
■ Platforms
■ RedHat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP):17.1
■ Database agents
■ MySQL 8.x - Rocky Linux 9.x on Rocky Linux 9
■ PostgreSQL 15.x - Ubuntu 24.04 on Ubuntu 24.04
■ PostgreSQL 16.x - Ubuntu 24.04 on Ubuntu 24.04
■ MariaDB 11.x - Ubuntu 24.04 on Ubuntu 24.04

■ Other support and changes

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■ SSL/TLS Support for Proxy on NetBackup Snapsot Manager side (Azure

VM based deployment only)
■ NetBackup Snapshot Manager host - Rocky Linux 9.3 and 9.4
■ NetBackup Snapshot Manager, OCI - Index from Snapshot and single
file restore for Linux OS
■ Restore Azure VM to AWS or AWS to Azure VM
■ Newly added Azure regions (Spain Central, Mexico Central) and OS
support for NetBackup Snapshot Manager

Minimum operating system versions

The minimum operating system that is required for NetBackup is changed. Starting
with NetBackup 10.5, the minimum operating system is as shown:
■ RedHat Linux x86: 4.18.0-372
■ IBMpSeriesRedHat: 4.18.0-372
■ IBMzSeriesRedHat: 4.18.0-372
■ Debian: 4.18.0-372
■ IBMpSeriesSuSE: 5.3.18-22
■ IBMzSeriesSuSE: 5.3.18-22

Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release

A new, fully documented command for shutting down NetBackup processes and
daemons will be provided in an upcoming release. At that point, the following
commands will no longer be available:
■ bp.kill_all

■ bpdown

■ bpclusterkill

Please plan accordingly. The new command will be announced in future release
notes and in the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.

Multi-person authorization support for encryption key management

and API key operations
Starting with this release, you can enable multi-person authorization for the
operations that are associated with encryption key management and API keys.
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BMR support for Cloud VM Recovery in AWS

Starting with this release, NetBackup includes BMR support for performing AWS
recovery at the virtual machine image level for RHEL platform operating systems.

Support for TLS 1.3 protocol

Starting with this release, NetBackup supports the TLS 1.3 protocol by default for
secure communication workflows as follows:
■ Secure proxy
■ Data-in-transit encryption (DTE)
■ External KMS servers
■ AD/LDAP servers
■ MSDP
■ HTTPS communication using cURL
Starting with this release, external CA-issued X509 certificates using SHA1 are no
longer supported with NetBackup. Before a NetBackup upgrade, update all external
CA-issued certificates that are used in NetBackup to the SHA-256 signed certificates
or to the stronger signature algorithms.

Support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) with Microsoft Azure and
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
NetBackup provides protection for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) VMs on both
Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Refer to the following tech note
articles for additional information:
■ NetBackup protection for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100069691.html
■ NetBackup protection for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100069692.html
See the NetBackup Compatibility List for all versions for the most recent product
and services support additions and changes.

Support for viewing hash values of malware infected files and

malware
In this release, the hash values (SHA-256) of the malware infected files are included
in a .csv file. A .csv file contains the backup time, names, hashes of the infected
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files, and virus information. For more information, see the NetBackup Security and
Encryption Guide.

Support of disk type Premium SSD v2 for NetBackup Snapshot

Manager Microsoft Azure plug-in
The following describes the associated support changes with this release:
■ NetBackup Snapshot Manager Microsoft Azure Plug-in supports disks of
Premium SSD v2 (PremiumV2_LRS). For more information, see the NetBackup
Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide.
■ NetBackup does not support indexing of VHDX disks (Azure Ultra disks, Premium
SSD v2 with a 4K sector size) and granular restore. For more information, see
the NetBackup Cloud Administrator’s Guide.

Support of SSL/TLS for Proxy Service

With this release, for Azure-based VM deployments, NetBackup Snapshot Manager
provides support for SSL/TLS for Proxy Service. Proxy certificates must be added
in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager trust store for communication between
NetBackup Snapshot Manager and the proxy server. For more information, see the
NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud Install and Upgrade Guide.

Support for double encryption method in Azure

NetBackup 10.5 now supports a double encryption method for encrypting disks in
Azure. For more information, see the section "Volume encryption in NetBackup
Snapshot Manager for cloud" in the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Cloud install
and Upgrade Guide.

Support for regional endpoint in Amazon Web Services

NetBackup 10.5 now supports STS regional endpoint in Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Web Services recommends the use of STS regional endpoint instead of
global endpoints. For more information, see the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for
Cloud install and Upgrade Guide.

End of life (EOL) for NetBackup for OpenStack – PSF

NetBackup for OpenStack – PSF has reached its end of life cycle. NetBackup 10.5
is the last NetBackup version to support NetBackup for OpenStack – PSF.
NetBackup for OpenStack (the integrated framework for OpenStack) is still
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supported. For more details about NetBackup future support plans, click the following
link: NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans

Support for Cloud-Object-Store workload type for malware scanning

NetBackup 10.5 now supports malware scanning for the Cloud-Object-Store
workload type. For more information, see the NetBackup Cloud Object Store
Administrator's Guide.

Support for cross-cloud provider restore

NetBackup 10.5 now provides support to restore protected cloud VMs across another
cloud service provider. For example, from AWS to Azure and vice versa, from
Backup from Snapshot copy. For more information, see the NetBackup Cloud
Administrator’s Guide.

Client push staging area no longer populated

As of NetBackup 10.5, the NetBackup client push install and upgrade staging area
is no longer populated during primary server and media server installation or
upgrade. For NetBackup 10.5 and later, you can populate the client push install
and upgrade with a single client rather than families of clients. For example, you
can add the Linux-ppc64le Red Hat client without also adding the Linux-ppc64le
SuSE client.
For more information, see "Installing client type software on a primary server" section
in the install or upgrade guides.

About binaries installed on primary and media servers

Starting with NetBackup 10.3, Veritas no longer provides the primary server binaries
on media servers. This change was made to reduce the installed footprint and
minimize the number of potentially vulnerable components on media servers. Given
the comprehensive nature of NetBackup, Veritas cannot provide an installed binary
listing. NetBackup has a myriad of installation options available for primary and
media servers, all of which affect the binaries installed.

Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately

after install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5
If you use cloud storage in your NetBackup environment, you may need to update
your cloud configuration file on the NetBackup primary server immediately after
you install or upgrade to NetBackup 10.5. If a cloud provider or related enhancement
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is not available in the cloud configuration file after you upgrade to NetBackup 10.5,
related operations fail.
Veritas continuously adds new cloud support to the cloud configuration files between
releases. Updating your cloud configuration files is necessary only if your cloud
storage provider was added to the cloud configuration package after version 2.12.0.
The following cloud support has been added to version 2.12.1 and later but was
not included in the NetBackup 10.5 final build:
■ Cloud Object Store Protection (COSP) – Dell EMC PowerScale series
■ Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) S3 Object Lock
■ Beijing XSKY Enterprise Object Storage S3 Object Lock
■ Calamu Protect (S3)
■ Amazon (S3) - Canada West (Calgary) region
■ NEC Cloud IaaS Object Storage N2 (S3)
For the latest cloud configuration package, see the following technical article:
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD971796
For additional information on adding cloud storage configuration files, refer to the
following technical article:
http://www.veritas.com/docs/100039095

NetBackup protection for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

NetBackup protection for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) does not currently
include support for the following:
■ IPv6
■ Govt.cloud
■ Auto Image Replication (AIR)
■ FIPS
■ Shared VPC

Private key encryption support

The host-ID based certificate is generated using the encrypted private key for all
the hosts. The private key of the NetBackup certificate is stored in an encrypted
format using AES_256_CBC encryption. The password that is used to encrypt the
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private keys is stored in file storage and is encrypted using AES_256_GCM

encryption.

About security configuration risk

Security configuration risk depends on the status of the security settings in your
NetBackup domain. A higher configuration risk score indicates weaker security
configurations. To minimize the risk, enable all the required security settings to
recommended values. The NetBackup web UI dashboard shows the security
configuration risk score. When you change any of the security settings, the risk
score is updated on the dashboard. For more information, see the NetBackup Web
UI Administrator's Guide.

Changes to NetBackup guide titles

Several guides have had content merged from a newer Web UI Guide and a legacy
guide, if one existed. This change means that all of the information for the NetBackup
workload is now combined into a single guide. Starting with this release, the following
titles for the affected guides have changed and no longer include the term "Web
UI":
NetBackup™ for Apache Cassandra Administrator's Guide
NetBackup™ for Red Hat Virtualization Administrator's Guide
NetBackup™ for Nutanix AHV Administrator's Guide
NetBackup™ for MySQL Administrator's Guide
NetBackup™ for PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide
NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
NetBackup™ Cloud Object Store Administrator's Guide
NetBackup™ for Kubernetes Administrator's Guide
 Chapter 3
Operational notes
This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About NetBackup 10.5 operational notes

■ NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes

■ NetBackup administration and general operational notes

■ NetBackup administration interface operational notes

■ NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload operational notes

■ NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)

■ NetBackup database and application agent operational notes

■ NetBackup NAS operational notes

■ NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes

■ NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes

About NetBackup 10.5 operational notes

NetBackup operational notes describe and explain important aspects of various
NetBackup operations that may not be documented elsewhere in the NetBackup
documentation set or on the Veritas Support website. The operational notes can
be found in the NetBackup Release Notes for each version of NetBackup. Typical
operational notes include known issues, compatibility notes, and additional
information about installation and upgrade.
Operational notes are often added or updated after a version of NetBackup has
been released. As a result, the online versions of the NetBackup Release Notes or
other NetBackup documents may have been updated post-release. You can access
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the most up-to-date version of the documentation set for a given release of
NetBackup at the following location on the Veritas Support website:
NetBackup Release Notes, Administration, Installation, Troubleshooting, Getting
Started, and Solutions Guides

NetBackup installation and upgrade operational

notes
NetBackup can be installed and upgraded in heterogeneous environments using
a variety of methods. NetBackup is also compatible with a mixture of servers and
clients that are at various release levels in the same environment. This topic contains
some of the operational notes and known issues that are associated with the
installation, upgrade, and software packaging of NetBackup 10.5.

If NetBackup 10.5 upgrade fails on Windows, revert to previous log

folder structure
The legacy log folder structure for non-root or non-admin invoked process logs has
changed. The new folder structure is created under the process log directory name.
For more information, refer to the File name format for legacy logging section from
the NetBackup Logging Reference Guide.
For Windows, if the upgrade to NetBackup 10.5 fails and rollback occurs, run the
following command to continue working on an earlier NetBackup version:
mklogdir.bat -fixFolderPerm

For more information, refer to the mklogdir command from the NetBackup
Commands Reference Guide.

Native installation requirements

In NetBackup 8.2, a change was made to initial installs such that the answer file is
now required. This change may have some negative effect on users who want to
use the native packages to create VM templates or otherwise install the NetBackup
packages without configuring the product. On Linux, one possible way of obtaining
the previous behavior is with the –noscripts option of the RPM Package Manager.
Providing this option when installing the VRTSnbpck package avoids the configuration
steps. This option does not need to be provided when you install other packages.
The answer file must still exist, but the only value that must be provided is the role
of the machine, either a client or a media server. For example:
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echo "MACHINE_ROLE=CLIENT" > /tmp/NBInstallAnswer.conf

rpm -U --noscripts VRTSnbpck.rpm
rpm -U VRTSpbx.rpm VRTSnbclt.rpm VRTSpddea.rpm

NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC
1123 and RFC 952
Starting with NetBackup 8.0, all NetBackup server names must use a host name
that is complaint with RFC 1123 ("Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application
and Support") and RFC 952 ("DOD Internet Host Table Specification") standards.
These standards include the supported and unsupported characters that can be
used in a host name. For example, the underscore character ( _ ) is not a supported
character for host names.
More information is available about these standards and about this issue:
RFC 952
RFC 1123
http://www.veritas.com/docs/000125019
These standards should be applied to all computing hosts, including all NetBackup
hosts. To accommodate legacy environments and functionality, features of
NetBackup that were implemented before 2010 continue to allow some
non-compliant characters. But newer features, as well as more recently integrated
3rd-party components, are not tested with nor expected to be compatible with host
names that do not adhere to the industry standards.
In some situations, it may be possible to configure name services with a network
hostname alias that is standards-compliant, and then use the alias when you
configure NetBackup. But using host names that are standards-compliant is the
only way to ensure compatibility with all features.

About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) introduced a new type of container for HP-UX
Virtual Partitions (vPars)-enabled servers called Secure Resource Partitions (SRPs).
As part of the security changes introduced by SRPs, native HP-UX install tools such
as swinstall and swremove are disabled from being run within the SRP
environment. The swinstall and swremove tools can only be called from the global
host running vPars, which then pushes the native packages to the SRP containers.
NetBackup only supports installing into the global view. NetBackup installation fails
if you try to install into an HPE Itanium SRP container (private file system, shared
file system, or workload).
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NetBackup administration and general operational

notes
NetBackup provides a complete, flexible data protection solution for a variety of
platforms. The platforms include Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems. In addition
to a standard set of data protection features, NetBackup can also utilize several
other licensed and non-licensed components to better protect a variety of different
systems and environments. This topic contains some of the general operational
notes and known issues that are associated with the administration of NetBackup
10.5.

Intelligent catalog archiving (ICA) is not supported for MSDP cloud

In NetBackup 10.5, Intelligent catalog archiving (ICA) is not available for any MSDP
cloud environments.

For some workload environments, reduce the size of the job database
before upgrade
Following an upgrade from NetBackup 9.0 or earlier to NetBackup 9.1 or later,
existing jobs for certain workloads are assigned an asset namespace to enable
access control at an asset level. This process may take some time. You should
reduce the size of the jobs database before upgrade. This action minimizes the
amount of processing required to perform the association and minimizes the effect
on web services performance. Very large job databases may see an alert regarding
high heap space usage.
The affected workloads include: Cloud, Nutanix AHV, RHV, and VMware
For further details see the following article:
http://www.veritas.com/docs/100049808

Policies using Replication Director fail with error code 4224

When you try to modify any existing policy with the Use Replication Director and
Perform snapshot backups options selected in the NetBackup web UI, this error
appears:

Error code 4224: Host. STS Internal Error

You can see the following message in the BPFIS logs:

15:16:13.416 [35337] <2> onlfi_vfms_logf: INF - snapshot services:

ostfi:2023-09-26 15:16:13.416029 <Thread id - 1> Failed to wait for
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operation result, Error code [2060017] and message [system call failed]
15:16:13.417 [35337] <2> onlfi_vfms_logf: INF - snapshot services:
ostfi:2023-09-26 15:16:13.417125 <Thread id - 1> OST Library call
failed with message (STS API waitForAsyncCall failed with error
code : 2060017)

Workaround:
Do any of the following actions:
■ In the Policy validation dialog displaying the error, click Ignore errors and
save. Open the NetBackup Administration Console (Java UI), edit the policy,
and then save it.
■ In the Policy validation dialog displaying the error, click Edit policy. To save
the policy, click Save. In the Policy validation dialog displaying topology
validation options, select the topology validation option as None or Basic, instead
of Complete, and save.

NetBackup administration interface operational

notes
The NetBackup administrator has a choice of several interfaces to use to administer
NetBackup. All of the interfaces have similar capabilities. This topic contains some
of the operational notes and known issues that are associated with these interfaces
in NetBackup 10.5.
For more information about the specific NetBackup administration interfaces, refer
to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide or the NetBackup Administrator's Guide,
Volume I.
For information about how to install the interfaces, refer to the NetBackup Installation
Guide. For information about platform compatibility with the administration consoles,
refer to the various NetBackup compatibility lists available on the Veritas Support
website.
See “About NetBackup compatibility lists and information” on page 43.

Delay in NetBackup web UI when adding or removing columns in

Catalog area
In the Catalog area of the web UI, you can add or remove columns from the table
of images. The more images that are displayed, the longer it takes for the interface
to refresh if you add or remove columns. This issue will be fixed in an upcoming
release.
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Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration

Console
Intermittent issues may occur with X forwarding of the NetBackup Administration
Console. This behavior only occurs when you use X forwarding. This issue does
not occur at the local console. The issue is most commonly seen on Linux servers,
but not exclusively. The issue generally occurs when older versions of X viewers
are used, such as Xming and XBrowser.
The use of MobaXterm seems to minimize or eliminate the issue. If you experience
issues with X forwarding, consider upgrading your X viewer and retrying the
operation or access the server from the local console.

NetBackup Administration Console fails in Simplified Chinese UTF-8

locale on Solaris SPARC 64-bit systems with Solaris 10 Update 2
or later
The NetBackup Administration Console may encounter a core dump issue when
the Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale is used on a Solaris SPARC 64-bit system
with Solaris 10 Update 2 and later installed. For more information, refer to Bug ID
6901233 at the following URL on the Oracle Technology Network website:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6901233
If you encounter this issue, apply the appropriate Solaris patches or upgrades that
Oracle provides for this issue.

NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload

operational notes
This topic contains some of the operational notes and known issues that are
associated with the NetBackup Cloud Object Store Workload in version 10.5.

Auto Image Replication (AIR) from NetBackup version 10.5 requires

NetBackup 10.2 or later
You cannot run Auto Image Replication (AIR) from a computer with NetBackup
version 10.5 to a target computer with a NetBackup version that is earlier than
version 10.2.
Workaround:
None. Upgrade the target computer to NetBackup version 10.2 or later.
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NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly NetBackup CloudPoint)

For Azure, backups fail when an older policy is updated with a new
backup host
For Azure, if you update a policy that was created on a NetBackup version prior to
10.3, with a new backup host, backups fail.
The modified form of the queries in version 10.3 causes this issue.
Workaround:
Update all existing queries in the buckets to the new format.

Replicated backups cannot be restored to older NetBackup versions

If you replicate a backup image created on NetBackup 10.3 or later to an older
NetBackup version, you cannot restore the buckets or containers having default
retention enabled using the older version of NetBackup.

Workaround:
1. Restore with NetBackup version 10.3 or later.
2. Replicate the image to NetBackup version 10.3 or later.

NetBackup Snapshot Manager (formerly

NetBackup CloudPoint)
Indexing not supported on instances created from AWS Marketplaces
AMIs
The indexing process for the instances created from AWS Marketplaces AMIs fails
with the following error:

Failed to attach new volume: Cannot attach volume <vol-xxx>

with Marketplace codes as the instance <i-xxx>
is not in the 'stopped' state.

NetBackup database and application agent

operational notes
NetBackup offers several methods of protecting various database and application
technologies This topic contains some of the operational notes and known issues
that are associated with the protection of database technologies in NetBackup 10.5.
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NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server operational notes

NetBackup for SQL Server extends the capabilities of NetBackup for Windows to
include backups and restores of SQL Server databases. These capabilities are
provided for a Windows client using either a Linux or Windows NetBackup primary
server. This topic contains some of the operational notes and known issues that
are associated with NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server in NetBackup 10.5.

NetBackup for VMware operational notes

In NetBackup 10.5, VMware server asset discovery in the
Web UI needs a backup host at NetBackup 10.5
Starting with NetBackup 10.5, the host that is used for credential validation and
asset discovery of a VMware server needs to be at version 10.5. Otherwise, the
discovery fails. By default, this value is the primary server. If you continue to use
the primary server, no changes are needed.

Changes in viewing VMware jobs in the web UI following

an upgrade to NetBackup 10.5
Following an upgrade NetBackup 10.5, only NetBackup administrators can view
VMware jobs in the Activity monitor that were performed before the upgrade. Jobs
that are initiated after the upgrade are available to users based on the RBAC
permissions that are granted to them.

New discovery of VMware servers is required before you

can create an RBAC role to manage certain VMware assets
After an upgrade to NetBackup 10.5, you must perform a new discovery of the
VMware servers before you can create an RBAC role to manage the following asset
types:
■ Datacenter assets in the vSphere (vCenter) object hierarchy
■ VMs in the VMware Cloud Director object hierarchy
If you want to create roles to manage a specific VMware server, a new discovery
of the VMware servers is not required.

NetBackup NAS operational notes

NetBackup Snapshot Manager and NDMP V4 snapshot extension can make
snapshots of client data on a NAS host. A NAS snapshot is a point-it-time disk
image. You can retain the Snapshots on the disk for any duration. Using the Instant
Recovery feature in NetBackup, you can efficiently restore the data from the disk.
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Broadly, in NetBackup, snapshot-based data protection for NAS can be performed

using NAS-Data-Protection policy and NDMP policy. This topic contains some of
the operational notes and known issues that are associated with NetBackup NAS
in NetBackup 10.5.

Parent directories in the path of a file may not be present in an NDMP

incremental image
An issue can occur if a NetBackup Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
backup policy is configured with the directive set type=tar in the backup selection.
Parent directories in the path of a file that an incremental NDMP backup saves may
not be present in the backup image. For more information on this issue, refer to the
following tech note on the Veritas Support website:
http://www.veritas.com/docs/000095049

RD storage units are not listed as Replication targets

While configuring a storage lifecycle policy (SLP) from the NetBackup web UI, the
Replication Director (RD) storage units are not listed in the Replication target
drop-down, under Destination storage attributes. This situation occurs when you
have configured both ISM and RD replication targets on the same primary server.
Workaround:
Configure the SLP using the NetBackup Administration Console (Java UI) or the
command line interface (CLI).

NetBackup for OpenStack operational notes

NetBackup for OpenStack is an optional NetBackup application. This topic contains
some of the operational notes and known issues that are associated with NetBackup
for OpenStack in NetBackup 10.5.

NetBackup for OpenStack Datamover API (NBOSDMAPI) service

times out in the haproxy connection
The NBOSDMAPI service in the haproxy connection may time out due to slow
response time in highly-used environments.
The default haproxy configuration works fine with most of the environments. When
the time-out issue with the NBOSDMAPI is observed, customize the haproxy
configuration. For more information, see the following tech note:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100052551
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Instance volumes in the incremental backups cannot be mounted

Newly added disks of an instance for incremental backup get backed up successfully
but these disks cannot be mounted.

Restored VMs have blank metadata config_drive attached

For every restore, the metadata config_drive is set as blank value.
Workaround:
Delete metadata config_drive or set the desired value.

No operation is permitted in insecure way for SSL-enabled Keystone

URL
For SSL enabled OpenStack, Backup and Restore jobs fail with missing TLS CA
certificate bundle error.
Workaround:
Configure the NetBackup appliance with OpenStack CA provided.
Or provide OpenStack CA to /etc/nbosjm/ca-chain.pem

NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs disappear from

Horizon UI after stack is updated
After you update the OpenStack stack, the NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup
Admin tabs disappear from the NetBackup for OpenStack Horizon UI. The stack
update incorrectly removes the endpoints from OpenStack. To resolve this issue,
run the script register_nbopenstack_service.sh, which is provided with the
installation package. This script registers the NetBackup for OpenStack service so
that the NBOS Backups and NBOS Backup Admin tabs appear on the Horizon
UI.
For more information, see the NetBackup for OpenStack Administrator's Guide.

NetBackup internationalization and localization

operational notes
This topic contains some of the operational notes and known issues that are
associated with internationalization, localization, and non-English locales in
NetBackup 10.5.
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Support for localized environments in database and application

agents
Non-ASCII characters are supported in the following fields for NetBackup database
and application agents.
■ Oracle:
Datafile path, Tablespace name, TNS path
■ DB2:
Datafile path, Tablespace name
■ SAP:
English SAP runs on localized OS. (No specific SAP fields are localized.)
■ Exchange:
Mailboxes, Mails, Attachment names and contents, Public folders, Contacts,
Calendar, Folders and Database paths
■ SharePoint:
Site Collection Names, Libraries and lists within the site collection
■ Lotus Notes:
Emails data /.nsf files
■ Enterprise Vault (EV) agent:
Vault store, Partitions, Data
■ VMWare:
Username, Password, VM display name, DataCenter, Folder, Datastore,
Resource pool, VApp, Network name, VM disk path

Certain NetBackup user-defined strings must not contain non-US

ASCII characters
The following NetBackup user-defined strings must not contain non-US ASCII
characters:
■ Host name (primary server, media server, Enterprise Media Manager (EMM)
server, volume database host, media host, client, instance group)
■ Policy name
■ Policy KEYWORD (Windows only)
■ Backup, Archive, and Restore KEYWORD (Windows only)
■ Storage unit name
■ Storage unit disk pathname (Windows only)
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■ Robot name
■ Device name
■ Schedule name
■ Media ID
■ Volume group name
■ Volume pool name
■ Media description
■ Vault policy names
■ Vault report names
■ BMR Shared Resource Tree (SRT) name
■ Token name
■ Storage lifecycle policy (SLP) names
 Appendix A
About SORT for
NetBackup Users
This appendix includes the following topics:

■ About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools

About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness

Tools
Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a robust set of
standalone and web-based tools that support Veritas enterprise products. For
NetBackup, SORT provides the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host
configurations across UNIX/Linux or Windows environments. This data is invaluable
when you want to assess if your systems are ready for an initial NetBackup
installation or for an upgrade.
Access SORT from the following webpage:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
Once you get to the SORT page, more information is available as follows:
■ Installation and Upgrade Checklist
Use this tool to create a checklist to see if your system is ready for a NetBackup
installation or an upgrade. This report contains all the software and the hardware
compatibility information specific to the information provided. The report also
includes product installation or upgrade instructions, as well as links to other
references.
■ Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor
Use this tool to find out whether a release that you plan to install contains the
hot fixes that you need.
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■ Custom Reports
Use this tool to get recommendations for your system and Veritas enterprise
products.
■ NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans
Use this tool to get information about what items Veritas intends to replace with
newer and improved functionality. The tool also provides insight about what
items Veritas intends to discontinue without replacement. Some of these items
include certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration,
Veritas product integration, applications, databases, and the OS platforms.
Help for the SORT tools is available. Click Help in the upper right corner of the
SORT home page. You have the option to:
■ Page through the contents of the help similar to a book
■ Look for topics in the index
■ Search the help with the search option
 Appendix B
NetBackup installation
requirements
This appendix includes the following topics:

■ About NetBackup installation requirements

■ Required operating system patches and updates for NetBackup

■ NetBackup 10.5 binary sizes

About NetBackup installation requirements

This release of NetBackup may contain changes to the minimum system
requirements and procedures that are required for installation. These changes affect
the minimum system requirements for both Windows and UNIX platforms. Much of
the installation instructional information in the NetBackup Release Notes is provided
for convenience. Detailed installation instructions are found in the NetBackup
Installation Guide and the NetBackup Upgrade Guide.
See “NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes” on page 25.
■ Before you upgrade the NetBackup server software, you must back up your
NetBackup catalogs and verify that the catalog backup was successful.
■ Before upgrading to NetBackup 10.5, you must ensure that you have the free
disk space that is twice the size of the NetBackup relational database. That
means for default installations of the primary server, you are required to have
that amount of free space on the file system containing the /usr/openv/db/data
(UNIX) or <install_path>\Veritas\NetBackupDB\data (Windows) directories.
If you have changed the location of some of the files in either of these directories,
free space is required in those locations equal to or greater than the size of the
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files in those locations. Refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume

I for more information about storing NBDB database files in alternate locations.

Note: This free disk space requirement assumes that you have already
performed the best practice of completing a successful catalog backup before
you begin the upgrade.

■ Primary and media servers must have a minimum soft limit of 8000 file
descriptors per process for NetBackup to run correctly.
For more information about the effects of an insufficient number of file descriptors,
refer to the following articles on the Veritas Support website:
http://www.veritas.com/docs/000013512
■ NetBackup primary and media servers exchange server version information at
startup, and every 24 hours. This exchange occurs automatically. During startup
after an upgrade, the upgraded media server uses the vmd service to push its
version information to all of the servers that are listed in its server list.
■ Veritas recommends that you have the primary server services up and available
during a media server upgrade.
■ All compressed files are compressed using gzip. The installation of these files
requires gunzip and gzip, so make sure that they are installed on the computer
before you attempt to install NetBackup. For all UNIX platforms except HP-UX,
the binaries are expected to be in /bin or /usr/bin and that directory is a part
of the root user’s PATH variable. On HP-UX systems, the gzip and gunzip
commands are expected to be in /usr/contrib/bin. Installation scripts add
that directory to the PATH variable. These commands must be present to have
successful UNIX installations.

Required operating system patches and updates

for NetBackup
NetBackup server and client installations are only supported on a defined set of
operating systems (OSs) that are listed in the NetBackup Compatibility Lists for All
Versions. Most OS vendors provide patches, updates, and service packs (SPs) for
their products. The best practice of NetBackup Quality Engineering is to test with
the latest SP or update level of the OS when a platform is tested. Therefore,
NetBackup is supported on all vendor GA updates (n.1, n.2, and so on) or SPs
(SP1, SP2, and so on). However, if a known compatibility issue exists on a specific
SP or updated OS level, this information is identified in the compatibility lists. If no
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such compatibility issues are noted, Veritas recommends that you install the latest
OS updates on your servers and clients before you install or upgrade NetBackup.
The most up-to-date required OS patch information for NetBackup 10.5 and other
NetBackup releases can be found on the Veritas Services and Operational
Readiness Tools (SORT) website and in the NetBackup Compatibility Lists for All
Versions. The compatibility lists include information about the minimum OS level
that is required to support a minimum NetBackup version in the latest major release
line. In some cases, new releases of NetBackup may require specific vendor OS
updates or patches.
See “About NetBackup compatibility lists and information” on page 43.
See “About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools” on page 36.

NetBackup 10.5 binary sizes

The following table contains the approximate binary sizes of the NetBackup 10.5
primary server, media server, and client software for the various supported operating
systems. These binary sizes indicate the amount of disk space occupied by the
product after an initial installation. Note that for the sizes listed in the table, 1 MB
equals 1024 KB.

Note: As of NetBackup 8.3, the Java GUI and JRE packages are optional with most
clients and media servers. The package sizes were calculated with the Java GUI
and JRE included.

Note: The table lists only the supported operating systems. For up-to-date
information about the specific operating system versions that NetBackup currently
supports, check the Installation and Upgrade Checklist on the Services and
Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website, or the NetBackup Compatibility List
for all Versions.

Table B-1 NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms

OS CPU 64-bit client 64-bit server Notes

Architecture

AIX POWER 1831 MB No longer

supported

Alma Linux 2025 MB

Amazon Linux 2025 MB

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Table B-1 NetBackup binary sizes for compatible platforms (continued)

OS CPU 64-bit client 64-bit server Notes

Architecture

BC-Linux 2025 MB

Canonical Ubuntu x86-64 2025 MB

CentOS x86-64 2025 MB 7599 MB

Debian GNU/Linux x86-64 2025 MB

Kylin Linux Advanced Server 10.0 2025 MB

NeoKylin Linux Advanced Server 2025 MB

Oracle Linux x86-64 2025 MB 2025 MB

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server POWER8 434 MB

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server x86-64 1985 MB 7377 MB

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server z/Architecture 1084 MB No longer Media server or client
supported compatibility only.

Rocky Linux client 2025 MB

Solaris SPARC 1035 MB No longer

supported

Solaris x86-64 992 MB No longer

supported

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server POWER8 445 MB

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server x86-64 1648 MB 6389 MB

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server z/Architecture 1106 MB No longer Media server or client
supported compatibility only.

Windows x86-64 760 MB 5415 MB Covers all compatible

Windows x64 platforms.
 Appendix C
NetBackup compatibility
requirements
This appendix includes the following topics:

■ About compatibility between NetBackup versions

■ About NetBackup compatibility lists and information

■ About NetBackup end-of-life notifications

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: NetBackup Snapshot Manager computer, primary server, media
server, and then clients. For example, the scenario that is shown is supported: 10.2
NetBackup Snapshot Manager > 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
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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.

About NetBackup compatibility lists and

information
The NetBackup Release Notes document contains a great deal of the compatibility
changes that are made between NetBackup versions. However, the most up-to-date
compatibility information on platforms, peripherals, drives, and libraries can be
found on the Veritas Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) for NetBackup website.
See “About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools” on page 36.
For NetBackup, SORT provides an Installation and Upgrade Checklist report as
well as the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host configurations across your
environments. In addition, you can determine which release contains the hot fixes
or EEBs that you may have installed in your environment. You can use this data to
assess whether your systems are ready to install or upgrade to a given release.

NetBackup compatibility lists

In addition to SORT, Veritas has made available a variety of compatibility lists to
help customers quickly reference up-to-date compatibility information for NetBackup:
NetBackup Compatibility Lists for All Versions

Note: For information about which versions of NetBackup are compatible with each
other, select a Software Compatibility List (SCL), and then select Compatibility
Between NetBackup Versions from within the SCL.

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:
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About NetBackup end-of-life notifications

■ 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” on page 36.

About changes in platform compatibility

The NetBackup 10.5 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” on page 10.
http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility
 Appendix D
Other NetBackup
documentation and related
documents
This appendix includes the following topics:

■ About related NetBackup documents

About related NetBackup documents

Veritas releases various guides that relate to NetBackup software. Unless otherwise
specified, the NetBackup documents can be downloaded in PDF format or viewed
in HTML format from the NetBackup Documentation Landing Page.
Not all documents are published with each new release of NetBackup. In the guides,
you may see references to other documents that were not published for NetBackup
10.5. In these cases, refer to the latest available version of the guide.

Note: Veritas assumes no responsibility for the correct installation or use of PDF
reader software.
All references to UNIX also apply to Linux platforms unless otherwise specified.