NetBackup812_RelNotes.pdf

Veritas NetBackup™

Release Notes

Release 8.1.2

Document Version 2

Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes

Last updated: 2018-09-21

Document version: NetBackup 8.1.2

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Chapter 2 New features, enhancements, and changes .............. 9

About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup ........................... 9

NetBackup 8.1.2 new features, changes, and enhancements ................ 10

NetBackup 8.1.2 introduces a new web user interface .................... 11

Veritas Smart Meter helps you manage deployment more efficiently

..................................................................................... 12

RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.2 .................................. 12

Veritas offers the NetBackup Parallel Streaming Framework SDK

..................................................................................... 14

About secure communications in MSDP for Auto Image Replication

Linux device persistent binding changes ..................................... 17

BMR introduces secure communication support on AIX and HP-UX

..................................................................................... 17

Supported NetBackup BMR configurations based on operating

system and patch release .................................................. 18

..................................................................................... 18

Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately

after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2 ............................ 18

Support added for Amazon GLACIER_VAULT storage class ........... 19

About NetBackup 8.1.2 operational notes .......................................... 21

NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes ......................... 22

Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation

DVD is inserted ................................................................ 22

About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers ................. 22

NetBackup administration and general operational notes ...................... 23

The net start command does not start the NetBackup Web

Management Console service ............................................. 23

NetBackup limitations when using IPv6 address as client name

or image name ................................................................. 23

Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration

Console can fail on certain Linux platforms ............................ 25

Console ......................................................................... 26

Reduced functionality during the initialization of the NetBackup

Administration Console ...................................................... 26

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 or

later ............................................................................... 26

Media restores of Solaris x86 11.2 or later clients may prompt for

maintenance mode user name and password ........................ 28

NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes .......................... 28

Image clean-up may fail for Microsoft Azure workloads .................. 28

NetBackup database and application agent operational notes ............... 29

NetBackup for SharePoint operational notes ................................ 29

NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes ........... 29

Support for localized environments in database and application

agents ........................................................................... 30

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