NB 75 Beta Primer

Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5Beta Primer

Release 7.5 Beta 2

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Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter 1 About the NetBackup 7.5 Beta program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

About NetBackup 7.5 Beta ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9About NetBackup 7.5 Beta feedback .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10NetBackup 7.5 Beta license key information .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

NetBackup license key information .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11NetBackup OpsCenter Analytics license key information .... . . . . . . . . . . . 11

About NetBackup 7.5 Beta technical support ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 2 About installing and uninstalling the NetBackupBeta software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

About the NetBackup 7.5 availability ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Before you install NetBackup 7.5 Beta software .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Supported installation criteria ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Platform support ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15System requirements ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Windows-specific system requirements ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Downloading the NetBackup 7.5 Beta software .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Installing the NetBackup 7.5 Beta software .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Installing Symantec OpsCenter ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 3 About NetBackup 7.5 new features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

About NetBackup 7.5 new features ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19About NetBackup Replication Director ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Replication Director Beta checklist ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Beta 2 test focus .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

About Deduplication .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24About Virtualization .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25About Accelerator ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26About NetBackup Search .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26About NetBackup Cloud improvements ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27About Telemetry .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28About General NetBackup enhancements ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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General NetBackup performance improvements ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29About adding clients to LiveUpdate policies ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29About NetBackup license deployment reporting .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29About NetBackup OpsCenter enhancements ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Disambiguating status codes 2, 5, and 6 .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter 4 About NetBackup 7.5 feature notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

About NetBackup Beta notifications .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43About general NetBackup beta notifications .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43About Replication Director known issues ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

About deploying the NetBackup Search feature ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Operating system patches and updates ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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About the NetBackup 7.5Beta program

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About NetBackup 7.5 Beta

■ About NetBackup 7.5 Beta feedback

■ NetBackup 7.5 Beta license key information

■ About NetBackup 7.5 Beta technical support

About NetBackup 7.5 BetaSymantec is pleased to announce the Symantec NetBackup™ 7.5 Beta releaseprogram. Because NetBackup 7.5 contains significant enhancements in manyareas of the product this Beta program will consist of two beta deliveries. Thefollowing list highlights the features and proliferations that are contained in ourBeta 2 release. A brief list of the Beta 2 feature content is provided within each ofthe feature description in Chapter 3, "About NetBackup 7.5 new features".

The following list identifies some of the new features contained in this release:

■ Replication DirectorThis feature offers a unified, policy-basedmanagement of backups, snapshotsand replication.

■ DeduplicationThis release offers improved deduplication integration, scalability,performance, and stability.

■ Virtualization

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NetBackup for VMware andNetBackup forHyper-V have both been improved.If you are still running agents "in the guest", it is time to leverage the benefitsin these built-for-virtualization solutions.

■ AcceleratorThis feature offers intelligent, streamlined backups to disk. It addresses theincrease in the amount of data to backup and the need to reduce the backupwindows.

■ SearchThis feature provides an Information Management solution that couplesbackup, recovery, archive, and discovery.

■ CloudThis release contains a new Cloud-based storage that features Encryption.

■ TelemetryThis feature provides data collection and upload capabilities for NetBackupand OpsCenter installations.

■ Newplatformsupport has beenadded toprovide automatedBareMetalRestoreof more platforms and configurations; expand embedded deduplication, andexpand support to address market needs for database agents.

■ BMR Client and boot server support for the following platforms:Red Hat 6AIX 7.1Solaris 10 ZFS (Sparc/x64)Linux native multi-path

■ Auto Image Replication for BMR images

■ Deduplication for AIX MSDP and Client

■ Added support for the following agentsEnterprise Vault 10Sybase Agent (Solaris 10 x64)Informix Agent (Solaris 10 x64)

Symantec asks that you focus your testing efforts on the new features that aredescribed in this document.

About NetBackup 7.5 Beta feedbackThank you for being a part of this Beta test program. We value your feedback aswe strive to produce a high-quality product. You can provide feedback throughyour assigned Symantec Sales Engineer (SE).

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NetBackup 7.5 Beta license key informationThe following subsections provide the license-key information that is applicableto the NetBackup 7.5 Beta software and the NetBackup OpsCenter software.

The license keys for this Beta program remain valid for 60 days.

NetBackup license key informationNetBackup 7.5 Enterprise Server - evaluation key for any platform:

Key: OENT-GOSG-R92Z-WNPN-RJ3S-L4LA-MM7A-MPPP-NC8C

Note: Dashes are required and this key is case-sensitive.

NetBackup OpsCenter Analytics license key informationAfter you successfully install the NetBackup OpsCenter patch you are promptedto enter a user name and a password on the logon screen. To enable the additionalreporting functionality that the NetBackup OpsCenter Analytics feature offersyou have to provide the following license key.

Username: admin

Password: password

Key: ORPH-I22W-VN9T-FGXJ-PPPN-7HJN-ROP3-KGSO-38P

Note: Dashes are required and this key is case-sensitive .

About NetBackup 7.5 Beta technical supportYou can use normal support procedures to communicate to Symantec TechnicalSupport about theNetBackup7.5Beta release. Youcancontact SymantecTechnicalSupport to open a case or submit a case through the My Support Web page(https://mysupport.symantec.com/). Please identify the case as a NetBackup7.5 Beta case when you place a call.

The NetBackup 7.5 Beta software is not supported in a production environment.

Symantec's technical support provides support for this Beta program until thestart of the First Availability program.

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About installing anduninstalling the NetBackupBeta software


■ About the NetBackup 7.5 availability

■ Before you install NetBackup 7.5 Beta software

■ Downloading the NetBackup 7.5 Beta software

■ Installing the NetBackup 7.5 Beta software

About the NetBackup 7.5 availabilityYou can download the NetBackup 7.5 Beta software from the Symantec Web site.These files are in a compressed (.zip or .tar) format that requires you to use autility to decompress the files for installation.

The following list identifies the FTP image files that are available for downloadwith this Beta program:

■ NetBackupAIX64-bit Server andClient (NetBackup_7.5Beta2_AIX64.tar.gz)

■ NetBackup HP IA64 Server and Client (NetBackup_7.5Beta2_HPIA.tar.gz)

■ NetBackup HP PA-RISC Server and Client(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_HP_RISC64.tar.gz)

■ NetBackup Red Hat Linux x86_64 Server and Client(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_LinuxR_x86_64.tar.gz)

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■ NetBackup SUSE Linux x86_64 Server and Client(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_LinuxS_x86_64.tar.gz)

■ NetBackup Red Hat Z-Linux x86_64 Server and Client(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_zLinuxR.tar.gz)

■ NetBackup SUSE Z-Linux x86_64 Server and Client(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_zLinuxS.tar.gz

■ NetBackup Solaris SPARC 64 bit Server and Client(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_Solaris_Sparc64.tar.gz)

■ NetBackup Solaris 10 x86 and x64 Server and Client(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_Solaris_x86.tar.gz)

■ NetBackupUNIXClients (Split 1) (NetBackup_7.5Beta2_CLIENTS_tar-gz.1of3)

NetBackupUNIXClients (Split 2) (NetBackup_7.5Beta2_CLIENTS_tar-gz.2of3)

NetBackupUNIXClients (Split 3) (NetBackup_7.5Beta2_CLIENTS_tar-gz.3of3

■ NetBackup Windows x86 and x64 Server and Clients (Split 1)(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_Win_zip.1of2)

NetBackup Windows x86 and x64 Server and Clients (Split 2)(NetBackup_7.5Beta2_Win_zip.2of2)

■ OpsCenter Windows x86 and x64 (OpsCenter_7.5Beta2_Win.zip)

■ OpsCenter AIX, HP-UX IA64, Solaris SPARC (Split 1)(OpsCenter_7.5Beta2_Unix_tar-gz.1of2)

OpsCenter AIX, HP-UX IA64, Solaris SPARC (Split 2)(OpsCenter_7.5Beta2__Unix_tar-gz.2of2)

■ OpsCenter RedHat, SUSE, Solaris x86 (OpsCenter_7.5Beta2_X64.tar.gz)

■ NetBackup documentation PDF file (NetBackup_7.5Beta2_Docs.zip)

■ Download_README-info.txt

Before you install NetBackup 7.5 Beta softwareThis section contains the supported installation criteria information along withsystem requirement information for Windows and UNIX platforms. Symantecrecommends that you read and understand this material before you install theNetBackup 7.5 Beta software.

Supported installation criteriaThe following list describes what this Beta program supports:

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■ Clean installations of NetBackup 7.5 are supported.

■ Upgrades from a previous NetBackup Alpha, Beta, or an earlier version ofNetBackup to this Beta release are not supported.

■ This Beta release does not support mixed-server configurations. (The finalrelease ofNetBackup7.5 provides the capability ofmaintaining amixedmasterand media server environment.)

Platform supportFor a complete list of supported platforms for this beta, see the SoftwareCompatibility List on the Symantec Support Web site.

The following list identifies some of the platform changes in NetBackup:

■ Support for Linux Red Hat x86_64 is moving from 4.0 to 5.0.

■ Support for z-Linux Red Hat 64-bit is moving from 4.0 to 5.0.

■ Support for z-Linux SLES 64-bit is moving from 9.0 to 10.0.

■ Support for Mac OS X is moving from 10.5 (PPC and i386) to 10.6 (i386 only).

Symantec recommends that before you install this Beta package, you make surethat you have the latest OS patches installed. For the most up-to-date productdependency information, refer to the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools(SORT).

To access SORT, go to the following Web page and choose NetBackup 7.1:

http://sort.symantec.com

See “Operating system patches and updates” on page 46.

System requirementsBefore you download NetBackup 7.5 Beta and begin installing, make sure thatyour environment contains the proper system requirements suggested withinthis topic. The following subsectionsdescribe thebasic server requirementsneededto download and install the product:

■ Remove any other vendor’s backup software currently configured on yoursystem before installing NetBackup. The backup software of another vendorcan negatively affect how NetBackup installs and functions.

■ NetBackup 7.5 contains the features that are dependent on Symantec PrivateBranch Exchange (PBX). PBX helps limit the number of TCP/IP ports thatNetBackup uses for many new features. For more information about how PBXaffects yourNetBackup installation, refer to theNetBackup InstallationGuidefor the platform that you are about to install.

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Windows-specific system requirementsMake certain that you have adequate disk space before starting a NetBackupinstallation. The following list provides some general system requirements for abasic Windows system:

■ A Windows supported platform with a minimum of two Gigabytes (GB) ofmemory.

■ Adequate disk space: Symantec recommends that the master and the mediaservers in a production environment, with several database agents enabled,have a minimum of two Gigabytes of disk space each to accommodate theNetBackup server software and NetBackup catalogs. Any client in this sort ofenvironment shouldhave aminimumof 1GBof disk space. The following itemsprovide a basic itemization of the disk space requirements:

■ The server software requires approximately 2GB of disk space.

■ NetBackup catalogs contain information about your backups and increasein size as youuse the product. The amount of disk space the catalogs requiredepends on the number of files that get backed up, the frequency of thebackups, and the amount of time that you chose to retain the backed updata. Symantec suggests that youhave aminimumof 512MBof disk space.

■ An additional 1GB of disk space is necessary on the drive where Windowsis installed during the install process. If you push install NetBackup toadditional platforms, you should plan to allocate additional space for eachplatform. After the install is complete, this additional space is no longerneeded.

■ Symantec recommends that you have a minimum available space of 5% inany Disk storage unit volume or file system.

Note:Anew featurewith this release is theNetBackupSearch feature. This featurehas its own installation process and system requirements.

See “About NetBackup Search” on page 26.

Downloading the NetBackup 7.5 Beta softwareTheNetBackup Beta software is available for you to download from the SymantecBeta/First Availability Web page. Use the following procedure to locate the Betasoftware.

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To download the NetBackup 7.5 Beta software

1 Enter the following URL in your Web browser .

http://symbeta.symantec.com

2 From the Symantec Beta/First Availability Web page, enter your user nameand password to log on to the Symantec Beta/First Availability program.

3 If you are not a returning user, you can register for a new account from thispage.

4 After you successfully log on to the Symantec Beta/First Availability programWeb page, you can download the NetBackup 7.5 Beta software.

Installing the NetBackup 7.5 Beta softwareOn Windows platforms, use a tool such as Winzip or 7-zip to uncompress thecompressed files.OnUNIX platforms, use the command gzip -d to uncompressthe files and use the command tar xvf to extract the files.

To install NetBackup as you would from a UNIX DVD

1 Download the UNIX .tar.gz files and expand them into the same directory.

2 Run the install script.

To install NetBackup as you would from a Windows DVD

1 Uncompressed the NetBackup image if you have not done that already.

2 Double-click on Browser.exe to start the installation process.

Installing Symantec OpsCenterThis Beta program supports clean installations of the Symantec OpsCentersoftware. For detailed information about OpsCenter licensing, installationprerequisites, and installation procedures, refer to the "Installing SymantecOpsCenter" chapter in the Symantec OpsCenter Administrator's Guide.

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http://symbeta.symantec.com

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About NetBackup 7.5 newfeatures


■ About NetBackup 7.5 new features

■ About NetBackup Replication Director

■ About Deduplication

■ About Virtualization

■ About Accelerator

■ About NetBackup Search

■ About NetBackup Cloud improvements

■ About Telemetry

■ About General NetBackup enhancements

About NetBackup 7.5 new featuresTheNetBackup 7.5 release emphasizes availability and performance in protectingmission-critical data and applications in physical and virtualized environments.This release contains the following new features:

■ Symantec Replication DirectorThis feature offers a unified, policy-basedmanagement of backups, snapshotsand replication.

■ User interface for backup and snapshot and replication.

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■ Near-instant data protection leveraging NetApp array-based snapshotsand replication by NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault as well as supportfor Symantec FileStore.

■ Manage data through its lifecycle across tiers of storage & tape (snapshotsto backup disk and tape under NetBackup policy control).

■ Utilization reporting and alerting.

■ Client support for Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP, AIX.

■ DeduplicationThis release offers improved deduplication integration, scalability,performance, and stability.

■ Integration of Auto Image Replication for media server deduplication

■ Virtualization

NetBackup for VMware has these major improvements:

■ Support for vSphere 5

■ Granular recovery for Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server VMs

■ Back up event logging in vCenter

■ Leverages the media server load balancing

NetBackup for VMware & Hyper-V have these improvements:

■ File-level recovery for ext4 file system on Red Hat/SUSE VMs

■ New policy-type for VMware & Hyper-V

■ AcceleratorThis feature offers intelligent, streamlined backups to disk. It addresses theincrease in the amount of data to backup and the need to reduce the backupwindows.

■ SearchThis feature provides an Information Management solution that couplesbackup, recovery, archive, and discovery.

■ Search across multiple domains, save, edit, and export and search queriesfor legal traceability.

■ Robust solution for legal hold management. Hold reports in OpsCenterprovide insight into size of legal hold and length of time of the associatedholds.

■ Cloud-based data protection.This release contains a new Cloud-based storage that features Encryption.

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■ Media server encryption with Key Management System.

■ Bandwidth throttling to control the read and write speeds across thenetwork pipe.

■ Metering the amount of read and writes going over the network pipe.

■ Enablement of additional public cloud storage provider.

■ TelemetryThis feature provides data collection and upload capabilities for NetBackupand OpsCenter installations.

■ Newplatformsupport has beenadded toprovide automatedBareMetalRestoreof more platforms and configurations; expand embedded deduplication, andexpand support to address market needs for database agents.

■ BMR Client and boot server support for the following platforms:Red Hat 6AIX 7.1Solaris 10 ZFS (Sparc/x64)Linux native multi-path

■ Auto Image Replication for BMR images

■ Added support for the following agentsEnterprise Vault 10Sybase Agent (Solaris 10 x64)Informix Agent (Solaris 10 x64)

Note: If you encounter an error during Beta testing, Symantec wants you to logand report the error to Symantec's technical support. Symantec appreciates yourhelp during the Beta program so that we might work towards addressing thoseissues before the final release.

About NetBackup Replication DirectorMore enterprise customers deploy advanced data protection solutions such assnapshots and replication for data protection and disaster recovery. Whendeployed, in addition to traditional backup applications, these technologies canhelp to enable a tieredmenuof protection and recovery offeringswith appropriatecosts and RPO and RTO characteristics. However, such dual deployments alsointroduce complexity. Many people and products to manage, non-integrated,disjointed, and dissimilar backup and recovery processes, separate scripts, orproducts for backup and replication management.

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Formore informationabout theNetBackupReplicationDirector, see theNetBackupReplication Director Solutions Guide.

NetBackup currently has limited capabilities to leverage snapshots and replicationfor data protection. However, this release provides many enhancements thatimprove NetBackup’s capabilities to leverage all forms of replication. Startingwith NetBackup 7.5, the following is enabled:

■ One application (NetBackup) to centrally manage policies, schedules, catalog,and the user interface to perform backup and snapshot replication

■ Near-instant data protection leveraging NetApp array-based snapshots andreplication by NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault as well as support forSymantec FileStore

■ Manage data through its lifecycle across tiers of storage & tape (snapshots tobackup disk and tape under NetBackup policy control)

■ Meet SLAs with centralized rapid recovery, independent of location. Browse,point, click.

■ Simplified file restore (SFR) for an OpsCenter, user interface restore.

More specifically, NetBackup 7.5 provides the following integration betweenNetBackup and NetApp arrays as a licensable feature:

■ OST plug-in architecture for NetApp and FileStore integration.

■ End-to-end, disk-to-disk-to-tapepolicymanagementwith snapshots, SnapVaultand SnapMirror, and NDMP.

■ NAS support for file services.

■ File-level browse and restore functionality from snapshots and backups.

■ Import the SnapVault and SnapMirror replication relationships that alreadyexist.

■ Auto-discovery of unprotected data.

■ Job activity monitoring that encompasses job success, failure, status, andprogress.

■ Utilization reporting and alerting.

■ Client support for Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP, and AIX.

For the Beta 2 program, the following features have been added:

■ SLP-managed snapshots.

■ Roll back from a copy for Replication Director.

■ NDMP support for Replication Director

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■ Configuring NetBackup to use storage replication.

■ Simplified file restore (SFR) from snapshots..

Replication Director Beta checklistReplication Director is a signature feature of the NetBackup 7.5 release. TheNetBackup Beta release of Replication Director is available to a limited numberof customerswho are interested in snapshot replication and are prepared to installand run NetBackup 7.5 Beta software in a test environment.

The customer feedback from this Beta release serves as input to the ReplicationDirector engineering development program.

Tomake themost of the Beta release, use Table 1-1 as checklist tomake sure thatthe backup environment contains the necessary hardware and software toconfigure and run Replication Director.

Installed(yes/no)

RequirementsArea

■ NetApp NAS devices only (no block devices)

■ CIFS and NFS file services only. No application agents are available.

General requirements

CIFS and NFS file services only. No application agents are available.NetApp hardware

■ OnTap 7.3.5 RC1 or later in 7 mode (c-Mode is not supported)

■ Data FabricManager (DFM) 4.0.1 or later with N-Adapter code (Linux orWindows)

Download the N-Adapter from the Symantec Beta Site.

The N-Adapter 1.0 Installation and Administration Guide is available fromNetApp.

NetApp software

The NetBackup 7.5 Beta release supports Replication Director on thefollowing client operating systems:

■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x x64

■ Linux SUSE 10 or 11 x64

■ HP-UX 11.31 IA64

■ AIX 6.1 64-bit

■ Windows 2003 or 2008 R2 x86 and x64

Note: Virtual machines must have a NetBackup client installed on thecomputer.

Note: vStorage and Hyper-V backup policies are not supported.

NetBackup platforms

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https://symbeta.symantec.com/login.html

http://now.netapp.com/

Beta 2 test focusAs you go through your beta testing, there are a few areas where Symantec wantsyou to focus some of your efforts. Please consider testing the followingfunctionality:

■ Representing NetApp storage as the NetBackup storage abstractions (DiskPool, storage unit, storage unit Group).

■ Configuration of backup policies and storage lifecycle policies to implementthe NetBackup Replication Director functionality.

■ Restores from the Backup, Archive, and Restore user interface.

■ Monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities.

■ Catalog from snapshot.

■ Restore using rollback functionality.

■ The following NetBackup client platforms are supported:

■ RHEL 5.x x64

■ Windows 2003/2008 R2 x86 and x64

■ HP-UX 11.31 IA64

■ AIX 6.1 64 bit

■ Solaris SPARC 64 bit

■ SUSE 10/11 x64

Virtual machines (VM's) require a NetBackup client to be installed within theVM. For this beta release, VMware and Hyper-V backup policies are notsupported.

About DeduplicationThis release contains improved deduplication integration, performance, andstability. To achieve that, the following features have been developed in thisrelease:

■ Integration of Auto Image Replication for PDDO

■ Stream handler EMC

These new deduplication features provide the following benefits:

■ Resilient network connections provide improved support for remote officededuplication backups.

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■ Enhanced backup experience and tape support for long-term retentions.

■ Improved backup retentions for better compliance and recovery objectives.

■ Lowered cost of disk storage.

A part of the NetBackup Beta 2 release, the following deduplication features havebeen added:

■ MSDP scalability to 64TB

■ PureDisk deduplication integrity and recoverability

■ Additional deduplication tools

■ Increased performance enhancements

About VirtualizationNetBackup 7.5 for VMware offers the best virtual machine (VM) protection,whether protecting a few VMs or an entire virtual datacenter.

This release contains the following improvements:

■ Enhanced Windows application protection

■ One-clickWindows application protectionnowavailable inVMware policy:- Backup of application-consistent snapshot.- Cataloging of entire application.- Database transaction log truncation processing.

■ Any-level recovery for SQL Server VMsSingle pass VMbackup provides any-level of recovery for SQL Server 2005and later: VM, file, or database recovery.

■ New VMware policyConvert from the FlashBackup-Windows policy for improved management,monitoring, and reporting of VMware backups.

■ New file-level recovery for RedHat/SUSEEXT4 file systems – extends previoussupport of EXT2 and EXT3 file systems.

This beta release also contain the followingNetBackup forVMware improvements:

■ Ability to perform Exchange-aware and SharePoint-aware backups of virtualmachines. Ability to perform database recovery and granular recovery (GRT)for Exchange and SharePoint from a VMware backup. All Exchange andSharePoint Agent recovery options are supported from a VMware backup. Asingle application-awareVMware backupprovides the following: VMrecovery,file recovery, database recovery, and granular recovery.

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This feature supports Exchange 2007 or later and SharePoint 2007 or later onWindows 2008 and 2008R2

■ Support for VMware vSphere 5 features, including Storage DRS.

■ vCenter Event LoggingNetBackup now logs backup success and failure statuses, and snapshot deletefailures directly into the vCenter event list.

■ VMware policy now supports media server load balancing.

About AcceleratorThis feature provides fast, streamlined backups to disk. To accomplish that, itleverages change tracking, deduplication, and optimized synthetics functionality.

Integrating these capabilities allows full backups of files and folders to beperformed almost as quickly as incremental backups.

A UseAccelerator check box appears in the Attributes tab of the Policy creationuser interface if NetBackup deduplication is in use. By checking this box,Accelerator is used for full backups. The initial Accelerator full backup is atraditional full backup.

After the initial Accelerator full backup, only changed files are read, deduplicated,and transferred to disk. An optimized, synthetic-full backup is created. Thatgenerates a block map of the new full backup, so no additional data movement isrequired. The NTFS change journal can be enabled and used to remove the needfor NetBackup to enumerate the file system. Deduplication can be performed oneither theNetBackup client,media server, or appliance. NetBackup Cloud storageis also supported with Accelerator.

OpenStorage (OST) deviceswhich supportOptimized Synthetics functionality aresupported with the NetBackup 7.5 GA release and once an OST vendor's softwarehas been qualified with NetBackup.

About NetBackup SearchNetBackup Search provides a mechanism to index the file system metadata thatis associatedwith backup images. Thatmakes searching for relevant informationsimple, powerful, and fast. Once information is found, the user can take actionsbased on that information. NetBackup Search provides a robust legal holdmechanismwhichensures that images relevant to a legal case arenot inadvertentlydeleted or allowed to expire based on retention levels.

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Note: NetBackup Search is a licensable feature.

The following capabilities are a part of this feature:

■ Advanced search capabilities enable you to find relevant information fasterwith the following advanced search capabilities:

■ Search across multiple domains.

■ Save and edit search queries for legal traceability.

■ Robust solution for legal hold management.

■ Legal holds provide a mechanism to override existing retention levels toensure that the backup images (and associated media) are retained untilthe legal proceeding is complete.

■ Hold reports inOpsCenter provide insight into size of legal hold and lengthof time of the associated holds.

See “About deploying the NetBackup Search feature” on page 45.

About NetBackup Cloud improvementsIn addition to being able to write and read data to and from the cloud, additionalfunctionalitywas added to improve themanagement andusability of this feature.Additional layered plug-inswere added to improve security, increase control, andmeasure throughput to and from cloud storage.

The following features comprise the Cloud enhancements:

■ Media server encryption with Key Management System

■ Bandwidth throttling to control the read and write speeds across the networkpipe.

■ Metering the amount of read and writes going over the network pipe

■ Enablement of additional public cloud storage providers.

From these features, customers benefit in the following ways:

■ Provides an alternative to client side encryption, which reduces the load onthe client. Also provides a centralized key management system versusmaintaining that on the individual clients.

■ Allows the end user to control the amount of bandwidth that is allocated tobackups. That eliminates the potential of the backup application saturatingthe network bandwidth.

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■ Allows the end user to measure the read and writes to the cloud, and use thisdata to bill back the individual business units for that usage.

■ Give the end user more choice in cloud storage providers.

About TelemetryThis release of NetBackup has a new feature that is called Telemetry. Thetechnology of Telemetry provides automatic recording and transmission of datafrom a remote source to a receiving station for analysis. The focus of this featureis to provide data collection andupload capabilities forNetBackup andOpsCenterinstallations.

When you install NetBackup and OpsCenter you see an additional prompt thatasks you to allow the upload of installation data to Symantec. If you agree to allowthis data collection to occur, your answer is saved and any future installation(such as, release updates) does not prompt you again. You also have the option toopt out of enabling this feature.

If you choose to enable this feature, the collection runs during the installationonly. You can view the information that is collected, and that data is saved in alocal file so that you can review it at any time. Data collection is supported onWindows, Linux, and UNIX environments.

When you enable this feature the following types of information are collected:

■ Name and type of the Host. (Is it a virtual or a physical host?)

■ Operating system name and version

■ Hardware platform

■ The CPU type and the memory

■ Any previously installed versions of NetBackup or OpsCenter

■ What components are installed, for example, NetBackupmaster,media, client,OpsCenter server, and agents.

■ Installation problems

■ License keys

About General NetBackup enhancementsThe following topics describe the general NetBackup enhancements that arecontained in this release.

■ Performance Improvements.

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■ Disambiguate status codes 2, 5, and 6.

■ NetBackup license deployment reporting.

■ NetBackup OpsCenter enhancements.

General NetBackup performance improvementsThis topic describes the enhancements thatweremade toNetBackup that improvethe core product, make it more user-friendly, and improve the performance. Thefollowing list shows the areas in which these improvements were made:

■ Usability Enhancements in the areas of installation, status codes, and logging.

■ Security enhancements.

■ Improved licensing management.

■ For performance improvement, changes were made to help users who usemultiple user interfaces at the same time.

■ NetBackup cannowsupport 40,000 jobs and asmany as 10 concurrent userinterfaces.

■ The user interface refresh rate has been improved. That leads to greaterefficiency as you manage NetBackup.

About adding clients to LiveUpdate policiesThis feature provides a quick and intuitive one-step method for adding a largenumber of clients to a LiveUpdate policy. You can use this feature to do thefollowing:

Note: LiveUpdate containers are provided in Beta and because upgrades are notsupported in a Beta release, you cannot use this feature during Beta. You canhowever, create LiveUpdate policies using this feature. You cannot perform anyupdates using those policies.

■ Add the ability to import a list of clients from a text file.

■ Add the ability to import all or a subset of clients from an existing backuppolicy into a LiveUpdate policy.

About NetBackup license deployment reportingTo improve your experience with using NetBackup, this release containsimprovements to ensure that you have a clear understanding of how NetBackup

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is deployed. You cannowcompare thenumber of licenses that youhave purchasedversus the number of licenses you currently use. That enables you to have aconfident understanding of compliance and to also plan for future purchases.

The following two features comprise this feature:

■ New Traditional License Reports:We introduced license reporting for the Capacity licensemodel. In NetBackup7.5 a report for the Traditional model was added so that you can count server,clients, tiers, and other components of the NetBackup solution. This reportincludes an automated report that is available from OpsCenter and acommand-line tool for a single master server.

■ Capacity License Report Enhancements:This release contains a number of enhancements to the Capacity report thatwas available in NetBackup 7.1. These enhancements mean that less manualreview is required for you to interpret the report.

About NetBackup OpsCenter enhancementsOpsCenter continues provide a robust user interface formonitoring, alerting, andreporting for operators and backup administrators. This release includes specialfocus on parity with reporting the features that were available in Veritas BackupReporter. In addition, it provides improvements with the custom reporting andenhancements that ensure that reports are easier to understand & interpret. Inaddition to reporting enhancements, this release adds two major functions thatsimplify themanagement ofNetBackup restore, andprovide better access controls.

Restore requests can take significant time to service as you are required to knowhow the data was originally backed up. In many cases restore operators have tofill in the blanks.Was the G: drive a NAS filer?Which of the following 10 files arerequired for the restore request. Where is the data now? The following itemsdescribe how these challenges are addressed in this release:

■ Restore with SearchOpsCenter offers a restore user interface that is available to operators in aWeb browser. Not only can you browse the NetBackup catalog as you have inthe past, you can now search across multiple client and multiple NetBackupdomains. That enables you to search and find the files or directories, evenwithlimited information and service the restore request as quickly as possible. Allof that is accomplished without any additional NetBackup infrastructure.Search results appear within seconds and you can refine or cancel them asneeded to find the files fast.

■ OpsCenter 7.5 enables you tomonitor,manage, report, andalert onaNetBackupappliance master server.

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OpsCenter 7.5 also enables you to monitor hardware of multiple NetBackupappliances from the OpsCenter console. You can monitor appliance masterandmedia servers and quickly identify anyhardware failures in the appliancesfromtheOpsCenter console. Tomonitor appliancehardwareandviewhardwaresummary of the appliancemaster ormedia servers, go toMonitor>ApplianceHardware in the OpsCenter console.OpsCenter can monitor NetBackup appliance 2.0 master servers. OpsCenter7.5 can also monitor appliance 1.2 and 2.0 media servers that are attached toan appliance 2.0 master server or to a regular NetBackup 7.5 master server. Anew data type that is called Appliance Hardware has been added to collectappliance-specific data.

■ View-based Access ControlNow we can now search across many clients we have also changed the accesscontrol model in OpsCenter. You can now have a particular user associated toa particular grouping of hosts. That enables you to create a new user, "Jimmy"for example. You then give Jimmy the role “Restore Operator”. That meansthe user, "Jimmy" can search, browse, and restore files aswell as start and stopjobs. Furthermore, if Jimmy’s role in the organization is limited in scope,perhaps that user is only responsible for systems in a geographic local, youcan then limit the privileges for "Jimmy" so that that user can only manage,monitor, report, and restore on a View in OpsCenter that is composed only ofthe hosts in that geographic locale.The reverse is also true. If an administrator named Barbara has privileges toall NetBackup servers and clients world-wide in your enterprise, you can givethat user full privileges to every host that is attached to OpsCenter.

You can expect to see three major benefits from this feature:

■ Less sophisticated IT staffers can service restores. In addition, those staffmembers can search for the files, directories, and ultimately restore thefiles faster with higher accuracy.

■ The OpsCenter Access Control model now more closely resembles IToperations where roles can be assigned but only for certain groups of ITassets.

■ Continued focus on high-quality reporting capabilities ensures that youcan publish reports to stakeholders that are inside and outside of IT. Youalso ensure that everyone is confident that their data is fully protected.

The following list idenifies the additional view-based Access Controlenhancements that have been added for this release:

■ Ability to view data in permitted views


The logged-in user in OpsCenter can view the data for the permitted viewsonly. Only the permitted views appear in the View drop-down list in theView pane.

■ You can view the data that is relevant to the selected view. For example fora client view, media details are not valid. Hence if you select a client-typeview and click Monitor > Media, you see the following error message:

Data is not applicable for the view that you selected.

Click UI access for specific view types for details about the

applicable view types.

■ Only a Security Administrator or Administrator can create or modify theviews.

■ An OpsCenter user can specify the default view to be shown in OpsCenterfrom Settings > User Preferences > General. This default view would beused when you log on to OpsCenter. If you modify the view selection afterlogging on to OpsCenter from the View Pane, then that view selection isused for that session throughout OpsCenter except reporting.You can also specify the default view to be used for report templates. Thisdefault view is used only for the standard reports.

■ A Security Administrator can view information about permitted view forthe user from Settings > Users. As this view is restricted to SecurityAdministrator, only the user with Security Administrator is able to see theviews that are assigned to a specific user.

■ All thenon-adminusers get the access to theALLMASTERSERVERSviewonly if permitted. A Security Administrator can only grant read access tothis view but cannot modify or delete this view. During upgrade, all theexisting users are given read access to the ALL MASTER SERVERS view.

■ The Analyst user role is no longer available. When you upgrade from anearlier version toOpsCenter 7.5, all the existingAnalyst users are upgradedto Reporter in OpsCenter 7.5. Because an Analyst has default readpermission on all the views, after upgrade all upgraded Analyst users getread permission on all the views in OpsCenter.

■ The Java View Builder is now available for free as part of SymantecOpsCenter. The Java View Builder was earlier available only with thelicensed version (Symantec OpsCenter Analytics).

■ If an OpsCenter user does not have access to any view, the user gets thefollowing message immediately after login:


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OpsCenter login was successful. You may not be able to

proceed further as you do not have access to any View.

For more details, contact the administrator.

■ Consider a scenariowhere anOpsCenter user has saved a view-based report,and now the user no longer has access to the specific view. If the user triesto run this report, the following message is displayed:

You might not have access to the View selected for this report.

You can, however, edit the report and then change the View.

■ Ability to generate traditional licensing reports for master serversOpsCenter 7.5 helps you to generate traditional licensing reports for masterservers of version 6.5.6 and higher (supported by nbdeployutil). You can findinformation about traditional licenses by going to Manage > DeploymentAnalysis > Traditional Licensing in the OpsCenter console.

■ OpsCenter 7.5 can monitor and report on cloud configurations on multipleNetBackup 7.5master ormedia servers. Tomonitor your cloud configuration,go to Monitor > Cloud in the OpsCenter console. A new report category thatis called Cloud reports has been added to Reports > Report Templates.

■ Job Success Rate

■ Data Expiring in Future

■ Cloud Metering

■ Average data transfer Rate

■ Cloud Metering Chargeback

■ In OpsCenter 7.5, the top 50 standard reports and also custom reports havebeen enhanced for report definition and data correctness. The followingenhancements have been made:

■ The top 50 standard OpsCenter reports have been enhanced for reportdefinition correctness to be at par with the earlier NOM or VBR reports.

■ The top50 standardOpsCenter reports have been enhanced for report datacorrectness to be at par with the earlier NOM or VBR reports.

■ The custom reports have been enhanced for report definition and datacorrectness.

■ With earlier versions of OpsCenter, standard or custom reports may showincorrect data if you select a time frame that contains a Daylight SavingTime (or DST) change. This issue has now been fixed in OpsCenter 7.5.


However, there will be some performance impact if you run a standard orcustom report that meets both of the following conditions:

■ The report isHistorical (has aTimeFrameGrouping filter) ) or is tabularwith a Date or Date Time column.

■ The time frameselected to run the report containsDSTchange. Example:Suppose you select CST (GMT -6:00) as the Data Display Time Zone onOpsCenterServer.Andwhile running the report, you specify theabsolutetimeframe from Oct 22, 2010 to November 22, 2010. The DST settingfor CST time zone ended on Nov 7, 2010 02:00:00. Since the DST endson November 7 which is in the middle of the selected timeframe, theselected timeframe contains the DST change.To overcome suchperformance issues, Symantec recommends that youconfigure the timezone for the OpsCenter Server as either GMT or atimezone that does not have any DST. You can configure the DataDisplay Time Zone from the OpsCenter console by clicking Settings >User Preferences > General and browsing to the Basic Preferencessection.

Report NameFolder Name

File Count

Job Count

Job Size

Client Count

Job Duration

BackupWindow > Job Count

Backup > Job Activity

Job Size - ForecastBackup > Planning

Activity > Forecast

Advanced SuccessRate

Success Rate - All Attempts

Success Rate - First Attempt

Success Rate - All Jobs

Backup>Status&SuccessRate


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Consecutive Failures Report

Week at a Glance

Job Status

Failed Job Count

Partially Successful Job Count

Successful Job Count

Success Rate Line

Job Attempt Status Detail

Backup>Status&SuccessRate> Status

Job Details Scheduled vs. Actual

Backup > Planning Activity > Scheduled

Job Count Scheduled Vs. Actual

Job Count within Backup Window

Backup > Planning Activity >Scheduled Job

Deduplication Size Savings

Backup > Deduplication

Deduplication Size Factor

Pre Vs. Post Deduplication

Backup > Deduplication

Throughput Variance

Backup Job Size Variance

Job Activity > Variance

Tabular BackupReportBackup > Job Browser

Stored backup Images on MediaBackup > Planning Activity >Stored Backup Images

Backup Chargeback

Deduplication Chargeback

Chargeback

Recovery Point Objective

Client Risk Analysis

Client Coverage

Client Reports > Risk Analysis

Client Restore

Client Not Backed up

Job Success By Client

Virtual Client Summary

Client Report



Current Disk Usage

Drive Throughput

Media ReportsDrive Utilization

Disk & Tape Device Activity

Media Utilization

Media Expiration Schedule

Media State

Media Reports

Master Server Job Throughput

Disk Usage

Performance Reports

Policy Summary Dashbaord

Top 10 Policies Using most Server Space

Policy Reports

Restore Job Details

Restore Job Summary by Job Count

Restore Job Summary by Volume Restored

Restore

Note: Not all of these reports could be documented for Beta 2. Thereports that could not be documented do not have a reference link.

If youhave saved one ormore reports that are based on any of the reporttemplates mentioned above or any custom reports and you upgradefrom an earlier OpsCenter version to OpsCenter 7.5, you will see thelink named View modified saved reports under Reports>MyReports.Since the saved reports are based on templates that have beenmodifiedin OpsCenter 7.5, these saved reports may appear modified. Click thelink to view the modified saved reports.

■ The following are some of the report definition changes that have beenimplemented that are valid for some or all of the above mentionedstandard (or canned) reports:

■ The unit Years has been added for Relative Timeframe selection forall of the reports. You can now view report data for the last x yearswith Symantec OpsCenter Analytics for the above reports. You canalso see the Years tab on the top-right corner of the above reports.

■ Trend line display option is now available for some of the cannedhistorical reports. You can use trendlines to specify whether thereport should include a trendline, and the length of the interval


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between points on the trend line (in days). The following check boxis available underTimelineChartProperties on theModifyDisplayOptionspane:Showtrendlinewithmovingaverageperiodof<selectvalue>. The trendline option is available for the following reports:

■ Backup > Deduplication > Deduplication Size Saving

■ Backup > Deduplication > Deduplication Size Factor

■ Backup > Job Activity > File Count

■ Backup > Job Activity > Job Count

■ Backup > Job Activity > Job Size

■ Backup > Status & Success Rate > Status > Failed Job Count

■ Backup > Status & Success Rate > Status > Job Status

■ Backup > Status & Success Rate > Status > Partially SuccessfulJob Count

■ Backup > Status & Success Rate > Status > Successful Job Count

■ Backup > Planning Activity > Stored Backup Images > StoredBackup Images on Media

■ Chargeback > Backup Chargeback

■ Chargeback > Deduplication Chargeback

■ TheWeek at aGlance report cannow show the files and directories thatare backed up for each client. The following checkbox has been addedon theModify DisplayOptions panewhen you edit the report: Show thefiles and directories backed up for each client If you check this optionand clickRunReport, you can view the client name and the backed updirectory in the ClientName column of Week at a Glance report.

■ Drilldown reports are now available for the following reports:

Drill down reportReport

Skip File DetailsBackup > Job Browser > TabularBackup Report (click any link in theJobPrimary ID column)

Job Details by ClientClient Reports > Job Success By Client(click the bar chart

Media Expiration DetailsMedia Reports > Media ExpirationSchedule (click the bar chart)


Drill down reportReport

Restore Job Attempt DetailsRestore >Restore JobAttemptSummary by Job Count (click the barchart)

Restore Job Attempt DetailsRestore >Restore Job AttemptSummary by Volume restored (clickthe bar chart)

■ A new value called UNKNOWN has been added for filters like Policytype, Job Type. The charts section now show UNKNOWN as legendinstead of blank.

■ The following are some of the report definition changes that have beenimplemented for custom reports:

■ The unit Years and Quarters has been added for Relative Timeframeselection. You can now view report data for the last x years or the lastx quarters with Symantec OpsCenter Analytics.

■ A new subcategory called Disk Pool has been added under theBackup/Recovery category for custom reports.

■ AnewcheckboxnamedTargetPerformancehasbeenadded to theModifyDisplayOptions page. This checkbox is visiblewhenyou create a customhistorical report. You can use the Target Performance option to specifywhere a report draws the target line, with which you can compare theactual performance shown. The TargetPerformance option allows youto specify the target for Y1 or Y2 axis (in case of dual axis). In case youset a value of say 100 for Y1 axis and run the report, you will see astraight line parallel to X-axis and the value as 100 on Y1 axis. Usingthis option, you can easily compare the actual performance with thetarget performance.

■ A new checkbox option called Display unique rows in the report hasbeen added for custom tabular reports. This option appears on theModify Display Options page when you create custom tabular reports.When you select this option, all duplicate rows are replaced by a singlerow in the report and only distinct records are shown. Duplicate rowsgenerally appear if the rows do not have a unique ID.

■ While creating custom reports (Distribution, Historical, Tabular, orRanking) in the Modify Display Options page, if you select report datafor chart based reports then the function or Operation drop-down listis populated dynamicallywith the supported values. For example if youcreate a Distribution, Historical, or Ranking custom report, and select


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ReportData as Job Primary ID, only valid functions like Count, DistinctCount,Maximum, andMinimumare shown in the other drop-down list.Earlier all the functions were displayed.Similarly if you create a tabular custom report, and add Job RetentionLevel as a selected column, the Operation drop-down list shows onlyapplicable functions namely Count and Distinct Count.

■ You cannowchoose to start from the beginning of aRelative time framefor custom reports. The following checkbox has been added in RelativeTimeframe:Start fromthebeginningof<selectedunit>. <selected unit>may standforHours, Days,Weeks,Months, Quarters, or Years depending onwhatyou select.If you specify a relative timeframe and check Start fromthebeginningof <selected unit>, the Relative timeframe is calculated starting fromthe first day for week, month, quarter, or year selection, from 12 A.M.for day selection, and from the earliest whole number (no minutes orseconds) for hour selection. Do not select the Start fromthebeginningof <unit> check box if you want to view data for the entire periodspecified in Relative Timeframe.

Examples:

■ The current date is June 13, 2010. If you select the RelativeTimeframe as Previous 1Month and do not select the Start from thebeginning of Month check box, the report shows data from May 14,2010 to June 13, 2010. However if you select the Start from thebeginning of Month check box, the report shows data from June 1,2010 to June 13, 2010.

■ The current date and time is September 13, 10:30 PM. If you selectthe Relative Timeframe as Previous2Daysand do not select theStartfrom thebeginningofDays check box, the report shows datafromSeptember 11, 10:30 P.M. to September 13, 10:30 P.M.Howeverif you select the StartfromthebeginningofDays check box, the reportshows data fromSeptember 12, 12A.M. to September 13, 10:30 P.M.

■ The current time is 4:25 P.M. If you select the Relative Timeframeas Previous 2 Hours and do not select the Start from the beginningofHour check box, the report shows data from2:25 P.M. to 4:25 P.M.However if you select the StartfromthebeginningofHours check box,the report shows data from 3 P.M. to 4:25 P.M.


Note: If you specify relative time frame and check Start from thebeginning of <selected unit>, the report is configured to displaydata collected over the interval ending at the current date. This iseffectively equivalent to specifying an absolute time frame; thereport’s contents remain static whenever you display it.

■ The following checkboxes have been added for Absolute Time frame incustom reports:

Check this option to view all the data on and beforethe To date.

Example: Suppose you specify an absolute timframe:From March 1, 2004, 12:00 A.M. to April 30, 2004,12:00 A.M. The report displays data from the timeperiod between the start and end dates. Now if youcheck Ignore From Date, the report ignores the FromDate and displays all data before April 30, 2004, 12:00A.M.

Ignore From Date

Check this option to viewall data onandafter theFromdate.

Example: Suppose you specify an absolute timframe:From March 1, 2004, 12:00 A.M. to April 30, 2004,12:00 A.M. The report displays data from the timeperiod between the start and end dates. Now if youcheck IgnoreToDate, the report ignores the To Dateanddisplays all data on and afterMarch1, 2004, 12:00A.M.

Ignore To Date

Use Ignore From Date or Ignore To Date to indicate an open-endedtime interval for an Absolute Timeframe.

■ A new value called UNKNOWN has been added for filters like Policytype, Job Type, Schedule/Level Type etc. The charts section now showsUNKNOWN as legend instead of blank.

■ Symantec OpsCenter Analytics 7.5 allows you to perform a NetBackupSearch operation. A license for NetBackup Search is required. After youhave added the license, the Search tab is visible in the OpsCenter console.

■ OpsCenter 7.5 now supports the feature of asset tags.This feature deploys ISO19770-2 standard software asset tagswithOpsCenter7.5 components like Server, Agent, and View Builder. An Asset tag helps toidentify if a particular software product or component is deployed on a host.


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This feature specifies the format and location of the tag that can help anySoftware asset management (SAM) tool to detect and report on SymantecOpsCenter.

■ InOpsCenter 7.5, the following infrastructure componentshave beenupgradedto higher versions:

■ The Apache Tomcat Web server has been upgraded to version 6.0.32.0(fromversion 6.0.29.0) for all platforms. TheWeb server has beenupgradedto address the security vulnerabilities in the earlier version.

■ Starting fromOpsCenter 7.5, JavaRuntimeEnvironment (JRE) is embeddedin the OpsCenter Server package. The JRE component has been upgradedto higher versions based on the respective platforms.The following table shows the new upgraded version of JRE in OpsCenter7.5 for each platform:

New versionOld versionPlatform

1.6.0_231.6.0_17Windows x86,Windowsx64, Linux SUSE, LinuxRHEL, Solaris SPARC,Solaris x86

1.6.0.09.001.6.0.05.00HP-UX

6.0.0.2506.0.0.150AIX

■ OpsCenter 7.5 installers for Windows and UNIX are now shipped with atelemetry data collection and uploading utility. Using this utility, the installercan collect OpsCenter installation information from your system like systemenvironment, installation data, and configuration log files. The telemetryutility can bundle this data into a .tar.gz format and optionally (with yourpermission) attempt to upload details of the installation to Symantec. Thisdata would help Symantec to guide future product development and alsoanalyze issues.A new option named AllowOpsCentertosendinformationbacktoSymantechas been added to the License Agreement page when you install OpsCentercomponents on Windows. This option is checked by default. You may opt tocheck or uncheck this option. If you check this option, the installer collectsOpsCenter installation information from your system and uploads details ofthe installation to Symantec.Similarly you are now prompted for the following when you install OpsCentercomponents on UNIX:


May we collect and upload OpsCenter installation and usage data from thissystem? [y,n] (y)

■ Additional OpsCenter enhancements:

■ OpsCenter 7.5 can monitor and manage all NetBackup master serverversions between 6.5.x and 7.5.

■ OpsCenter 7.5 can now collect data from Symantec Enterprise Vault 9.

■ OpsCenter 7.5 can now be installed on Solaris 11 platform.

■ You can access OpsCenter 7.5 using Internet Explorer 7.x, 8.x, and 9.0. Youcan also access OpsCenter 7.5 using Firefox 3.0, 3.5.x, and 4.0.

Disambiguating status codes 2, 5, and 6In past versions, the NetBackup restore jobs that used to fail for a large numberof reasons. However, you would only see one of three different error codes thatdidnot accurately describe the error that occurred. Symantec took time to improvethis area by providing a unique error code for all of the possible error scenarios.The following table shows these errors, and the appropriate error status code.

Note: This feature is scheduled to be ready for the Beta 2 release.

ExpectedStatusCode

Steps to ReproduceRestore SelectionData Type

TBDThe master server failed to connect tobackup restore manager on media serverfor restore

MS-SQL

2840Begin restore, and then shut down the SQLServices.

Restore of data where SQL services aredown

MS-SQL

2842Connect to the database with the SQLEnterprise manager, and then begin therestore.

Restore of data with database in useMS-SQL

2843Select the SQL Move script, and then fail tocorrectly modify the file paths.

Move database by restore with incorrectpaths

MS-SQL


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■ About NetBackup Beta notifications

■ About deploying the NetBackup Search feature

■ Operating system patches and updates

About NetBackup Beta notificationsThe topics in this chapter describe feature-specific notes and known issues asthey relate to this Beta release.

About general NetBackup beta notificationsThe following items are notes about the NetBackup 7.5 Beta 2 release and mayapply to you and your environment:

■ The NetBackup server package for AIX is now larger than 2 GB. That meansyoumayneedanoperating systempatch to installNetBackup7.5. The followinglist provides the minimum required levels for AIX:

■ AIX 5.3 TL12 SP2

■ AIX 6.1 TL5 SP2

■ AIX 7.1GA

Symantec recommends that before you install this Beta package, you makesure that you have the latest OS patches installed. For the most up-to-dateproduct dependency information, refer to the SymantecOperationsReadinessTools (SORT).

4Chapter

To access SORT, go to the following Web page and choose NetBackup 7.1:http://sort.symantec.comSee “Operating system patches and updates” on page 46.

■ You cannot install OpsCenter Server on a Solaris cluster. The installer hangswhen you install OpsCenter Server on a Solaris cluster.

■ TheNetBackup 7.5 BetaWindows client does not support the ability to restoreShadow Copy Components:\orSystem State:\ froman image thatwas takenwith aNetBackup clientwith a version that is less than theNetBackup 7.5 Betalevel. Because BMR requires these components as a part of a BMR recovery,BMRonWindows clients does not support the images thatwere created beforethe NetBackup 7.5 Beta.

■ With this beta release, Point-in-Time (PIT) Rollback is not supported formultistream backups on a Windows platform.

■ You cannot save a policywhen theMSDP storage server andPolicy are createdin the samegraphical user interface session. If you clickOKwith the acceleratorchecked and themedia server deduplicationdisk that is selected as the storageunit, you may receive the following message.To use accelerator, you must select a storage unit that supports

it (not Any Available).

Toworkaround this issue, create theMSDPstorage server, restart the graphicaluser interface, and then attempt to create the Policy again.

■ An issue with the server indexing caused an error when the Indexing Servername cannot be retrieved. This issue occurs on theNetBackupAdministrationConsoles . In addition, you may receive the following error message:The indexing server name could not be retrieved.

The cause of this issue, is that the entry of themaster server name in bp.conf

file and EMM_Machine table were not the same. For example, the master servername entry in the EMM_Machine table may contain the fully qualified domainname and the master server name in the bp.conf file may contain the shortname. If they are different, then a failure a failure occurs when the masterserver key is retrieved.

■ An issuemayoccur on clusteredNetBackupmaster serverswhen compressionis enabled within a policy and a file within the backup set is larger than 1Gigabyte. Under these conditions, performing a ‘verify catalog’ action maycause the following error even though restores are not affected and functionnormally:The database contains conflicting or erroneous entries.

■ The NetBackup 7.5 Beta release contains a document directory. Some of theNetBackupdocuments in that directorymaynot contain the latest information

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for this beta release. For the latest NetBackup 7.5 beta documents, you candownload the NetBackup_7.5_Beta_Doc_Set.zip file from the SymBetadownload page.

About Replication Director known issuesThe following list describes the known issueswith theReplicationDirector featurefor the Beta release.

■ The OpsCenter server does not show the Volume Resize events.For information on how to enable volume resize events on DFM, refer to theNetApp documentation.

■ The NetBackup Replication Director feature does not support the HP-UXoperating system in the beta release.

About deploying the NetBackup Search featureTo use the NetBackup Search feature, make sure that you have at least 175MB ofspace available for the installation. The following list outlines the high-level orderthat you should follow to deploy the NetBackup Search feature.

■ Install the master server.

■ Use the NetBackup 7.5 Beta package to install the master server.

■ Verify that the "NetBackup Indexing Manager" and "NetBackup SearchBroker Service" services are installed and that the "NetBackup IndexingManager" service should be running.

■ Verify that the Policy properties user interface in NetBackupAdministrationConsole shows the configurationuser interface for indexing.

■ Install and identify the media server.

■ Use the NetBackup 7.5 Beta package to install the media server.

■ Verify that the media server services are running.

■ Verify that the media server is registered with the master server. Use theNetBackup Administration Console to verify that an entry for the serverexists under the Media servers hosts.

■ Install the Indexing Server on the media server.

■ Install NetBackup OpsCenter.

See the Symantec NetBackup Search Administrator’s Guide (Beta) for moreinformation about installing, configuring, and using the feature.

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Operating system patches and updatesThis topic provides information on the product dependencies of this release ofNetBackup. You should verify that your operating system is up-to-date with allof the latest patches and upgrades before you install NetBackup. This section isa guide to informyou of the operating systems that require a patch or an upgrade.

Table 4-1 provides the known, minimum operating system (OS) patches andupdates. A vendormayhave released amore recent patch that supersedes a patchthat is listed in this table. Symantec recommends that you visit the Support Website of that particular vendor for their latest patch information.

Table 4-1 Operating system patches and updates for NetBackup

NotesPatchOperating system type andversion

You may need to restart afterchanging to version 9.0.0.3.

AIX runtime libraries 8.0.0.10 or9.0.0.3 or later

AIX 5.3

For the xlC.rte 8.0.0.10 fileset,you may need to install the IY91284fix to avoid a potential issue whencreating or updating the NetBackupdatabase. The IY91284 fix is part ofMaintenance Level 6.

xlC.rte 8.0.0.10 fileset

NetBackup 7.5 requires the AIX 5.3TL12 SP2 (5300-12-02-1036)Maintenance Pack as a minimum.(Higher patch levels should alsowork.)

You can use the oslevel -s

command toverifywhatMaintenancePack level you have installed.

AIX 5.3 TL12 SP2 (5300-12-02-1036)

NetBackup 7.5 requires the AIX 6.1TL5 SP5 (6100-05-02-1034)Maintenance Pack as a minimum.(Higher patch levels should alsowork.)

You can use the oslevel -s

command toverifywhatMaintenancePack level you have installed.

AIX 6.1 TL5 SP5 (6100-05-02-1034)AIX 6.1

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Table 4-1 Operating system patches and updates for NetBackup (continued)


The runtime libraries need to be at9.0.0.3 or later. You may need torestart after you change to version9.0.0.3.

AIX runtime libraries 9.0.0.3 or later

If you install AT on an HP-UXplatform, this patch is required.

COMPLIBS.LIBM-PS32HP-UX

Networking.NET-RUN:/usr/lib/libipv6.sl

HP-UX IA64

Networking.NET-RUN-64:/usr/lib/pa20_64/libipv6.1

Networking.NET-RUN-64:/usr/lib/pa20_64/libipv6.sl

Networking.NET2-RUN:/usr/lib/hpux32/libipv6.so

Networking.NET2-RUN:/usr/lib/hpux32/libipv6.so.1

Networking.NET2-RUN:/usr/lib/hpux64/libipv6.so

Networking.NET2-RUN:/usr/lib/hpux64/libipv6.so.1

Networking.NET2-RUN:/usr/lib/libipv6.1

For HP-UX PA-RISC platforms, thisfileset is required:

Networking.NET-RUN:/usr/lib/libipv6.sl

HP-UX PA-RISC


Networking.NET-RUN-64:/usr/lib/pa20_64/libipv6.1


Networking.NET-RUN-64:/usr/lib/pa20_64/libipv6.sl


Networking.NET2-RUN:/usr/lib/libipv6.1

This patch is required for JAVA 6.0.PHSS_35385HP-UX 11.11

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This patch is a LIBCL patch.PHSS_32226

Contains fixes for the following:

■ QXCR1000593919: purifyplus

dumps core in PA32

■ QXCR1000589142: dld crash inLL_new_descendent_listwhen theaCC application is exiting.


■ QXCR1000746161: dlsym()

hangs

■ QXCR1000593999: dld emitsassert messages for chatr+mem_check enabled 64-bitexecutables

PHSS_37516

This patch is necessary to enable anyC++ runtime code to work properly.

PHSS_26946

This patch is a libc cumulativepatch.

PHSS_27740

This patch contains a linker toolscumulative patch.

PHSS_26560

That is a recommended critical patchfrom HP that is required forsuccessful NetBackup client backups.

PHSS_32864

This patch enables HP-UX 11.11

mmap() to use large files from2GB to4GB.

PHKL_26233

That is a recommended critical patchfrom HP that is required forsuccessful NetBackup client backups.

PHSS_35379

That is a recommended critical patchfrom HP that is required forNetBackup to use VxSS.

PHCO_29029


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Allow POLL_INTERVAL to be set tozero in /var/stm/config/tools/monitor/dm_stape.cfg. Thatdisables the dm_stapemonitorwithin the EventMonitoring System.Symantec recommends that youupgrade to IPR0109.

PHSS_24045

This patch can cause problems withthe programs that have the setuidbit set.Hewlett-Packard ’s IT resourcecenterWeb site contains informationabout this patch.

www1.itrc.hp.com

PHSS_30970

S700_80011.11 libc cumulative patch

The above patch has dependency onthe following patches:

■ PHCO_31923 (critical patch):s700_800 11.11 libc cumulativeheader file patch

■ PHKL_34805 : 700_800 11.11JFS3.3 patch; mmap

PHCO_35743


Symantec recommends that allcustomers running 11.23 install thispatch.

PHCO_33431

That is a recommended critical patchfrom HP that is required so thatdlopen works properly.

PHSS_34858

That is a recommended critical patchfrom HP that NetBackup requires,particularlywhen you attempt to runNetBackup with NetBackup AccessControl (NBAC).

PHKL_31500




Contains fixes for the following:

■ QXCR1000593919: purifyplus

dumps core in PA32


■ QXCR1000746161: dlsym()

hangs

■ QXCR1000593999: dld emitsassert messages for chatr+mem_check enabled 64-bitexecutables

PHSS_37492


This patch bundle is required forNetBackupmedia server support.Thisis an HP-UX September 2008 patchbundle.

QPK1131 (B.11.31.0809.326) patchbundle

The operating system version mustbe SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10update 2 or greater to runNetBackup7.0.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10update 2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 x64

Change Request ID - 6815915111712-11 (or greater)Solaris 9 SPARC 64-bit client

111722-04 (or greater)

Patch: 112908-29 (or greater)

Patch: 112874-31 (or greater)

Change Request ID - 6723423122300-53

The server is supported on update 4(08/07) and newer.

update 4 (08/07) and newerSolaris 10 SPARC 64-bit (server andclient)



Change Request ID - 6815915119964-21Solaris 10 x64


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Microsoft microcode reliabilityupdate.

KB936357Windows XP x86-32

Hot fix for hangs of connectionattempts by PBX.

KB928646Windows XP x86-64


KB936357Windows Vista x86-32

Contains the necessary updates toensure that you can back upencrypted files.

KB952696


KB936357Windows Vista x86-64


KB952696

Contains thenecessaryupdates to runVolume Shadow Copy.

KB913648Windows Server 2003 IA64 (SP1 &SP2)


KB928646

Microsoft Storport hot fix.KB883646Windows Server 2003 x86-32 (SP1 &SP2)


KB913648


KB936357

TCP/IP protocol driver triggers adisconnect event randomly. Requiredfor master and media servers.

KB971383Windows Server 2003 x86-32 (SP2)

Microsoft Storport hot fix.KB883646Windows Server 2003 x86-64 (SP1 &SP2)


KB913648





KB928646


KB936357

TCP/IP protocol driver triggers adisconnect event randomly. Requiredfor master and media servers.

KB971383Windows Server 2003 x86-64 (SP2)


KB952696Windows Server 2008 x86-32


KB952696Windows Server 2008 x86-64


KB952696Windows Server 2008 IA64

The following additional product dependency information applies to this releaseof NetBackup:

■ Product dependency notification for customers running Microsoft WindowsVista or Windows 2008 server.If you want to protect client (or server) systems that are running eitherMicrosoft Windows Vista or Windows 2008 server, you may need to installMicrosoft hot fix number KB952696. If you attempt to back up any protectedfiles that have been encrypted by the operating system, NetBackup cannotback up these files. NetBackup reports that it is unable to access the encryptedfiles and the backup continues with all of the remaining files.

Note: That does not apply to NetBackup encryption. NetBackup encryption isseparate from the file system encryption,meaning that NetBackup-encryptedfiles are backed up. In addition, this hot fix is not needed for any Windowsversion before Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 2008 server. If you arerunning Vista or Server 2008, please refer to KB952696 to see if this hot fix isrequired for your operating system version


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