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NetBackup 6.0 Feature Summary


VERITAS Software Confidential of 32 Table of Contents 3/24/2005

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................................2

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE...........................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................6

MEDIA MANAGEMENT ...................................................................................................8

NDMP .............................................................................................................................11

DISK BACKUP...............................................................................................................13

PROLIFERATIONS ........................................................................................................16

MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING...............................................................................18

ENHANCEMENTS TO THE CORE ................................................................................19

TROUBLESHOOTING ...................................................................................................20

VAULT............................................................................................................................21

BARE METAL RESTORE (BMR) ..................................................................................23

INTERNATIONALIZATION ............................................................................................25

CLIENT...........................................................................................................................25

DATABASE AGENTS....................................................................................................26

ADVANCED CLIENT......................................................................................................31


VERITAS Software Confidential of 32 Quick Reference Guide 3/24/2005

Quick Reference Guide

TABLE OF CONTENTS

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

INTRODUCTION

MEDIA MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISE MEDIA MANAGER

Description: Enterprise Media Manager provides for centralization and consolidation of many internal NetBackup and Media Manager databases and media and drive selection logic

MULTI-PATH SSO NDMP Description: Sharing of tape drives among media servers and NDMP devices

IMPROVED TAPEALERT HANDLING Description: All TapeAlert flags are now read by NetBackup

ENHANCED DEVICE QUALIFICATION TOOL SUITE Description: Adds ability to qualify tape libraries and extends functionality with drive tests

DEVICE CONFIGURATION WIZARD DRIVE NAME SEED Description: Allows specifying policies for automatic generation of drive names

AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION ON TAPE DRIVE SWAP Description: Automatically configure swapped tape drives

MEDIA SERVER CAN BE TAKEN OFF-LINE Description: CLI may be used to take a media server off-line.

STORAGE UNIT FAILOVER Description: An alternate storage unit can be configured to be used only when the primary storage unit fails.

AUTO CONFIGURATION OF ACS AND TLM ROBOTS Description:.The Device Configuration Wizard now configures robots and drives in STK’s ACSLS and ADIC’s DAS and SDLC libraries.

NDMP NETAPP SNAPVAULT INTEGRATION

Description: Integration with NetApp SnapVault for backups and restores REMOTE NDMP SUPPORT

Description: Remote NDMP support for all major OS platforms. NDMP WORM TAPE SUPPORT

Description: Supports writing to WORM tape when using NDMP devices SUPPORT FOR > 1.6 TB BACKUPS AND FILES /NDMP

Description: Allows NDMP backups > 1.6 TB in size DISK BACKUP

OPTIMIZED NETAPP NEARSTORE DSU Description: Optimized backups to NetApp NearStore

DISK BACKUP PERFORMANCE: DOCUMENTATION Description: Document how to tune NetBackup, OS, file systems, volume manager, etc., for maximum disk performance.

DISK BACKUP PERFORMANCE: DEFAULT SETTINGS Description: Change default tuning parameters to optimize disk performance.

DSU: STAGING AS A STORAGE UNIT ATTRIBUTE Description: Make staging an attribute of a Disk Storage Unit (DSU) rather than a separate type of storage unit (DSSU)

STAGING: USING MULTIPLE TAPE DRIVES



Description: Improve staging performance by enabling the simultaneous use of multiple drives; allow more than one duplicate at a time for a disk storage unit with the staging attribute set.

STAGING: HIGH AND LOW WATERMARKS Description: Provide high and low thresholds (watermarks) that will allow more predictable, better performing behavior.

DSU: LEVERAGE DSU STORAGE UNIT GROUPS Description: Don’t schedule jobs to full disk storage units. If a disk storage unit is full, use another one in the Storage Unit Group. Provide load sharing of DSU’s in a Storage Unit Group.

DSU: SUPPORT IMPORT OF DISK BACKUP IMAGES Description: Today only backup images on tape can be imported if the NetBackup catalog is lost or if the user wishes to move the image to the catalog of another NetBackup server. This feature will enable import for backup images on disk.

DSU: MEDIA SERVER FAILOVER Description: Allow FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER and FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS to work with disk.

PROLIFERATIONS IA-64 NBU SERVER SUPPORT

Description: NetBackup 64-bit server and client support for Linux and HP on IA-64 (Itanium). SOLARIS 10 SUPPORT

Description: NetBackup server and client support for Solaris 10. MSCS NBU SERVER SUPPORT

Description: NetBackup clustering is now supported for MSCS with NetBackup Server (previously only supported with NetBackup Enterprise Server).

VCS FOR WINDOWS NETBACKUP INSTALLATION Description: The installation procedure for NetBackup on VCS for Windows is now equivalent to the installation operation for NetBackup on MSCS

HP SERVICEGUARD CLUSTER SUPPORT Description: NetBackup servers can be configured for high availability in a HP Service Guard cluster environment.

MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING NETBACKUP OPERATIONS MANAGER

ENHANCEMENTS TO THE CORE INTELLIGENT RESOURCE MANAGER

Description: Intelligent Resource Manager (IRM) for NetBackup is the redeployment of current scheduler and job manager providing additional functionality. In addition to scheduling backup jobs, the IRM will allow users to prioritize backups, restores and duplications. The IRM will also provide, in cooperation with the Enterprise Media Management (EMM), the resource selection/allocation functionality currently embedded in the tape manager (bptm) and disk manager (bpdm).

CATALOG BACKUP ENHANCEMENTS Description: The catalog backups have been enhanced considerably to improve RPO and RTO.

PORTS REDUCTION Description: Reduce the number of ports that needs to be opened in the firewall for NBU.

UNIFIED LOGGING Secondly, VxUL will provide better support for localization of the log messages.

ROBUST LOGGING Description: Robust Logging feature that enables users to prune log files more frequently than once a day. This feature enables users to set a maximum size of each of the debug log files and also set the maximum number of log files in each NetBackup debug log directory. This way, if the maximum size is exceeded a new debug log file is created. And if the Maximum number of debug log files is exceeded, the oldest log file will be deleted.

TROUBLESHOOTING ONLINE TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE



Description: Provide the end user with a more in-depth troubleshooting guide specific to the Exit Status code in which they may encounter in using NetBackup. The troubleshooter GUI will now have a URL web link to a technical document (TechNote) located on the VERITAS Support website.

VAULT CATALOG BACKUP IMPROVEMENT FOR VAULT

Description: Vault’s support for the new way NetBackup Catalog backup works. QUEUE VAULT JOBS

Description: Enable queuing of vault jobs if they belong to the same Vault instead of aborting the second job. CORBA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR VAULT CONFIGURATION

Description: A CORBA based daemon that manages the Vault configuration database TRUE CONSOLIDATION FOR VAULT REPORTS

Description: “Consolidation”, over concatenation (current) of reports VAULT REPORTS: DISTRIBUTION GRANULARITY

Description: Finer level control over the way each report gets distributed. GUI SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE RETENTION MAPPINGS

Description: Add support in the GUI for configuring multiple retentions. VSM/VAULT INTEGRATION

Description: GUI integration of VSM vaulting of tapes in to Vault. BMR

BMR – NETBACKUP INTEGRATION BMR WINDOWS SERVER BMR SUPPORT FOR VERITAS FOUNDATION SUITE BMR SUPPORT FOR LINUX CLIENTS

INTERNATIONALIZATION I18N SUPPORT

Description: NetBackup has been (partially) internationalized for single locale operation in heterogeneous environments.

CLIENT VXFS 4.1 FILE CHANGE LOG SUPPORT

Description: The newest planned version of the Veritas File System (VxFS 4.0) has a new feature, the file change log. NetBackup currently scans the file system looking for files to backup during incremental backups. This can be a slow process on file systems with very many files (millions or billions), and can be unneeded if most of the files don’t change very often. VxFS 4.0 is adding a file change log to track modifications to files, and NetBackup will use this log to determine which files to select for incremental backups, potentially saving huge amounts of unnecessary file system processing.

DATABASE AGENTS OFF-HOST BACKUP FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE 2003 SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 (BETA) SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT PORTAL 2003 SAP BACKUP INTEGRATION WITH ORACLE RMAN SAP BACKINT SUPPORT FOR SAP DB SUPPORT FOR LOTUS DOMINO/NOTES R7

ADVANCED CLIENT SUPPORT FOR DISK ARRAY SNAPSHOTS ON WINDOWS SNAPSHOT POLICY CONFIGURATION WIZARD INSTANT RECOVERY ENHANCEMENTS


VERITAS Software Confidential of 32 Introduction 3/24/2005

Introduction The 6th major release of NetBackup delivers critically needed scalability and functionality to NetBackup’s largest enterprise customers. Key objectives are to

• further enhance NBU’s disk backup capabilities, • respond to the increased market requirement for backing up data to disk, • collaborate with Network Appliance to differentiate NetBackup by providing support to back up

data directly to their NearStore appliance, • meet the VERITAS Integration guidelines and enhance NBU integration with other VERITAS

products, and • allow NBU to be more easily localized to other languages.

In addition, a significantly enhanced new management and reporting interface is introduced in this release. The NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) is a new product feature developed to address NetBackup management needs of enterprise customers. NetBackup 6.0 has 3 key areas of focus. They are (1) improved NetBackup scalability, (2) support for disk based backups, and (3) integration with other VERITAS products. IMPROVED SCALABILITIY Several changes have been made to make the product scale better.

• The media/volume and device databases, spread across multiple media servers, have been consolidated into a single relational database. This not only makes the product scale better, but also reduces the catalog corruption.

• The scheduler has been replaced by an intelligent resource manager which will enable policy-based prioritized scheduling of all jobs.

• Catalog backup has been modified to allow for hot backups. In addition a pool of tapes can be dedicated for catalog backups. (Spanning tapes)

• NDMP filers can now share tape drives SUPPORT FOR DISK BASED BACKUP Due to Serial ATA (SATA) disk technology and its low price, the market requirement for disk-based backup has increased dramatically. Numerous companies have introduced tape emulation products that use these low-cost disk drives, specialized controllers and software to emulate a tape library and tape drives. This allows customers to gain the benefit of disk performance while using the same tape backup paradigm to which they are accustomed. Because tape media has been one of the problem areas for quite some time (especially in the open systems marketplace), customers are considering moving some (or all) of their backups to disk. In addition, restoring from disk can often be much faster than restoring from tape. In recognition of the greater role disk technology is playing in data protection, several enhancements have been made to embrace disk, such as

• Integration with NearStrore appliance • Improve staging performance by enabling the simultaneous use of multiple drives • Ability to set high and low thresholds (watermarks) • Not scheduling jobs to full disk storage units. • Ability to import disk images • Ability to failover media servers • Support for disk array snapshots on Windows


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BETTER INTEGRATION In continuation of the trend to better integrate with other relevant VERITAS products, NetBackup 6.0 has tighter integration with Bare Metal Restore (BMR). Users now have a single set of interfaces to install, configure and use both NetBackup and BMR. In addition, Advanced Client has tighter integration with VxFS and VxVM resulting in improved performance.


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MEDIA MANAGEMENT Enterprise Media Manager

Status Supported Platforms New X <<All>> HP-UX AIX

X Enhanced Windows Solaris Linux

Description: Enterprise Media Manager provides for centralization and consolidation of many internal NetBackup and Media Manager databases and media and drive selection logic

Feature Benefits • Addresses database inconsistencies. • Improved scalability. • Share tape drives among media servers and

NDMP devices. • Centralized media and drive error reporting • Enhanced firewalls and cluster failover support • Enables more rapid development of additional

media manager features.

Feature Notes/Limitations • All media/volume and devices databases are

consolidated into a single relational database. • Uses Sybase ASA as the database. • Multi-threading implementation. • vmd will no longer be a bottleneck when all servers

are brought up to the latest release version.

Shared Storage Option (SSO) Enhancements

Status Supported Platforms X New X <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced Windows Solaris Linux

Description: Sharing of tape drives among media servers and NDMP devices, including NetWare support. In addition, SSO now supports multiple paths to tape drives.

Feature Benefits • Allows sharing of tape drives among NetBackup

media servers and NDMP devices. • New support for NetWare Media Servers • Supports multiple paths to tape drives for

redundancy.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Supported only on the major platforms (the five listed

above) for NDMP. • Supports all library types, but only TLD, TL8, ACS,

TLH and standalone drives for NDMP. • Multiple paths to optical drives is not supported • Does not provide automated load balancing

Improved TapeAlert Handling


Description: All TapeAlert flags are now read by NetBackup

Feature Benefits • Improved decision making on whether tape media

or drive is the problem. • Quantum tape drive will tell NetBackup if media

should be frozen or a drive downed. • More reliable capturing of TapeAlert data for

detecting cleaning-needed conditions

Feature Notes/Limitations • Supports Quantum’s DLTSage capability.



Enhanced Device Qualification Tool Suite

Status Supported Platforms New X <<All>> HP-UX AIX X Enhanced Windows Solaris Linux

Description: Adds ability to qualify tape libraries and extends functionality with drive tests

Feature Benefits • Quicker support of new devices • Updated tape library and drive firmware will appear

on the Device Support List more rapidly. • Customers will be able to run diagnostic tests of

basic library functionality.

Feature Benefits • Device vendors can now pre-qualify new drives and

libraries prior to shipping them to us for qualification. • Device vendors can now qualify new versions of drive

and library firmware for posting on the Device Support Listing.

Device Configuration Wizard Drive Name Seed


Description: Allows specifying policies for automatic generation of drive names

Feature Benefits • Customers can more easily identify specific drives

because they can associate parts of the drive name with a flexible list of input parameters, such as host name, robot number or type or drive’s position within a robotic library.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Allows customers to use GUI or CLI to manage drive

name rules for naming drives (e.g., LTO2-TLD2-4 instead of HPLTO20).

• Allows either global or media server specific drive name rules.

Automatic Configuration on Tape Drive Swap


Description: Automatically configure swapped tape drives

Feature Benefits • Eliminates the need to reconfigure swapped tape

drives either manually or using the Auto-configuration Wizard.

Feature Notes/Limitations • If drive is taken down, and then replaced, ltid will

discover and automatically configure the replacement. • When ltid is started on a reboot, it will check for

swapped tape drives and automatically configure a replacement.



Storage Unit Failover


Description: An alternate storage unit can be configured to be used only when the primary storage unit fails.

Feature Benefits • Two storage units can be configured such that jobs

always target a specific storage unit unless there is a failure (not just busy), in which case it will fail-over over to the second storage unit.

Feature Notes/Limitations • This capability can be used to provide failover to an

alternate library.

Auto Configuration of ACS and TLM Robots


Description: The Device Configuration Wizard now configures robots and drives in STK’s ACSLS and ADIC’s DAS and SDLC libraries.

Feature Benefits • Because automatic robot and drive configuration

was not supported with ACS and TLM robot types, a customer had to manually determine the physical drive location of each drive within the library. Then, they had to copy this configuration to all other media servers sharing the library.

• The Media Manager Device Configuration Wizard now configures robots and drives for ACS and TLM robot types.

Feature Notes/Limitations N/A

Media Server Can Be Taken Off-line Status Supported Platforms

X New X <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced Windows Solaris Linux

Description: CLI may be used to take a media server off-line.

Feature Benefits • Eliminates failed jobs that occur when NetBackup

sends jobs to a media server that has failed

Feature Notes/Limitations • CLI must be used to take media server off-line. • This does not stop the NetBackup daemons.


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NDMP NetApp SnapVault Integration

Status Supported Platforms X New <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced X Windows X Solaris Linux

Description: Integration with NetApp SnapVault for backups and restores

Feature Benefits • Builds on NetApp snapshot/SnapRestore

integration in NetBackup 5.1. • Schedule, configure and manage NetApp

SnapVault operations. • SnapVault provides the ability to store multiple,

primary snapshots, from multiple filers, on a less expensive secondary device.

• SnapVault only transfers changed blocks from the primary to the secondary.

• Allows NetApp filers to be backed up to a NetApp NearStore

• Allows user-initiated restores

Feature Notes/Limitations • Included in the Advanced Client. • NetBackup can schedule and manage snapshots and

data movement. • NetBackup will choose the best location from which to

restore (snapshot on filer, NearStore snapshot, tape). • Single-step restore from tape (data doesn’t have to go

through the NearStore to filer). • Requires NetApp SnapVault license; SnapRestore

license is recommended for instant recovery. • Requires NetBackup Advanced Client and NDMP

licenses. Oracle Agent is required for Oracle support, which is only on Solaris.

• Snapshots can be backed up to tape with a separate policy.

Remote NDMP Support

Status Supported Platforms New <<All>> X HP-UX X AIX X Enhanced Windows Solaris X Linux

Description: Remote NDMP support for all major OS platforms.

Feature Benefits • Remote NDMP support for AIX, HP-UX and Linux. • backup NDMP devices to tape drives attached to

media servers running all major operating systems.

Feature Notes/Limitations • All major platforms are now supported for remote

NDMP.

NDMP WORM Tape Support


Description: Supports writing to WORM tape when using NDMP devices

Feature Benefits • Remote NDMP support for AIX, HP-UX and Linux. • Use WORM tape with NDMP devices.

Feature Notes/Limitations • WORM tape support as in NetBackup 5.1 MP1, but

now for NDMP backups. • Supported with direct, 3-way and remote NDMP.


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Support for > 1.6 TB Backups and Files / NDMP


Description: Supports writing to WORM tape when using NDMP devices

Feature Benefits • No need to break up large volumes in order to back

them up. • Much larger files can be handled with NDMP

backups.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Current backup and file size limits are slightly < 2 TB • New limits will be 64 TB for file size and 4B TB for

backup size. • “fixed” in NetBackup 5.0 for non-NDMP backups. • Will also be added in NetBackup 5.x patches


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Disk Backup Optimized Disk-Based Backups to NetApp NearStore


Description: Optimized disk-based backups to NetApp NearStore

Feature Benefits • Optimized disk backups of NetBackup clients to

NetApp NearStore. • Reduction in the amount of disk capacity required

for backups. • Allows use of database agents

(NetApp’s OSSV doesn’t support this)

Feature Notes/Limitations • NetApp converts NBU tar image to WAFL format • NearStore keeps one copy of a unique block (per

client), so a new NetBackup full backup or incremental will only save changed blocks on the NearStore.

• Future NetApp Data ONTAP patch, clients will be able to be NFS/CIFS mount the NearStore to export data.

• Included as part or base NetBackup code (not an extra cost option).

• Supports disk staging and synthetics. Disk-Based Backup Performance Guide


Description: Document how to tune NetBackup, OS, file systems, volume manager, etc., for maximum disk performance.

Feature Benefits • The results of engineering lab research will be

published in the upcoming “NetBackup Tuning Guide” so customers can use the information to improve backup/restore performance in their disk-based data protection environment

Feature Notes/Limitations • The NetBackup Tuning Guide has been approved for

internal distribution and Product Management is seeking approval to publish the document externally.

DSU: Support Import of Disk Backup Images


Description: Today only backup images on tape can be imported if the NetBackup catalog is lost or if the user wishes to move the image to the catalog of another NetBackup server. This feature will enable import for backup images on disk.

Feature Benefits • Improved ability to perform disaster recovery. • Improved flexibility for migration of backup images

to other NetBackup servers or retain access to backup images that have expired.

Feature Notes/Limitations • The user will not be able to import pre-Arapaho

images stored on disk.



Disk-Based Backup Performance: Default Settings


Description: Change default tuning parameters to optimize disk performance.

Feature Benefits • Optimizing default tuning parameters will make it

much easier for customer to achieve high backup/restore performance.

• The default maximum fragment size will be changed from 2GB to .5TB thereby minimizing fragments on disk images and avoiding the unnecessary overhead and housecleaning required to maintain multiple fragments.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Parameters being considered include: block size, size

data buffers, number data buffers, network buffer size (on server), parent & child delays, OS system settings, OS file system settings. It is possible not all will be included.

• None of the default tuning parameters will appear in the GUI nor in bp.conf; we will continue to rely on the touch files. In some future release we would hope to move these settings into the GUI.

• The maximum / default fragment size for tape storage units will not be changed.

DSU: Staging As A Storage Unit Attribute


Description: Disk Staging is now an attribute of a Disk Storage Unit (DSU) rather than a separate type of storage unit (DSSU)

Feature Benefits • Having separate DSU and DSSU storage units

causes unnecessary confusion. Customers don’t know the pros and cons of each type, when to use each, etc. By making staging an optionally enabled attribute of a Disk Storage Unit configuration and planning will be simplified.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Current capabilities of DSSUs will be retained but

additional capabilities will be available (see features below)

• NetBackup 6.0 upgrade logic will recognize a 5.x DSSU and create a NetBackup 6.0 DSU with the staging attribute and configuration set in the new Enterprise Media Manager (EMM) database.

Staging: Using Multiple Tape Drives


Description: Improve staging performance by enabling the simultaneous use of multiple drives; allow more than one duplicate at a time for a disk storage unit with the staging attribute set.

Feature Benefits • Improved performance for disk staging • Ability to configure larger storage units with more

images to stage; this saves administrative effort and disk costs over configuring multiple smaller storage units.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Staging requires configuration of a schedule for the

migration (duplication) process; although that schedule has a time window with both a beginning and an end, staging ignores the closing of the time window. The staging process figures out its list of images to duplicate, and attempts to duplicate them all, regardless of how long this takes.



Staging: High and Low Watermarks


Description: Provide high and low thresholds (watermarks) that will allow more predictable, better performing behavior.

Feature Benefits • Enables the user to specify at what point a DSU is

to be considered full (high watermark) or at what point expiration of images on disk should begin (high watermark) and at what point expiration should stop (low watermark).

Feature Notes/Limitations • This feature will work with NearStore storage units, as

well as with standard DSUs. • The default setting for the High Water Mark will be

98%.(Note: the effective high water mark in 5.x was 100 %)

• The script that upgrades a pre-6.0 configuration to 6.0, will set the High Water Mark to 98% for a DSU, and 100% for a DSSU.

DSU: Leverage DSU Storage Unit Groups


Description: Don’t schedule jobs to full disk storage units. If a disk storage unit is full, use another one in the Storage Unit Group. Provide load sharing of DSU’s in a Storage Unit Group.

Feature Benefits • Current behavior is that a backup job that fails due

to a full DSU will retry the same DSU and continue to fail until the maximum retries variable is reached. This enhancement will cause the backup job to use another available DSU if one exists. This enhancement will provide better reliability, availability, and performance of DSU backups.

• NetBackup will perform simple load sharing for multiple DSU’s in a Storage Unit Group by routing each new job to the least recently used DSU (rather than always to the same DSU until it is full).

Feature Notes/Limitations • This enhancement will only work for jobs configured to

use a Storage Unit Group containing multiple DSUs. If a single, specific storage unit is configured (not in a Storage Unit Group) and if that storage unit is full, the job will fail as it did prior to 6.0.

DSU: Media Server Failover


Description: Allow FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER and FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVERS to work with disk.

Feature Benefits • Today if a Media Server is unavailable, all attached

DSU’s are unavailable for restore processing. This feature will improve availability by allowing the user to specify a media server other than the one that wrote the backup to do the restore.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Both Media Servers will require access to the DSU

and will use the same path name for the DSU.


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PROLIFERATIONS

IA-64 NetBackup Support Status Supported Platforms

X New <<All>> X HP-UX AIX Enhanced Windows Solaris X Linux

Description: NetBackup 64-bit server and client support for Linux and HP on IA-64 (Itanium).

Feature Benefits • Support for RHEL4, SUSE SLES 9 and HP 11.23


Solaris 10 Support

Status Supported Platforms X New <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced Windows X Solaris Linux

Description: NetBackup server and client support for Solaris 10.

Feature Benefits • Supports new Solaris 10 features • NetBackup server support for the SPARC

architecture • NetBackup client support for Solaris 10 on both

Opteron (32-bit NetBackup client) and SPARC.

Feature Notes/Limitations • NetBackup server support for Solaris 10 on Opteron

may be provided in the 6.0 release. If we are not able to complete the work in this timeframe, this support will be targeted at a post-6.0 release.

MSCS NetBackup Server Support

Status Supported Platforms X New <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced X Windows Solaris Linux

Description: NetBackup clustering is now supported for MSCS with NetBackup Server (previously only supported with NetBackup Enterprise Server).

Feature Benefits • NetBackup master and media server failover



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VCS for Windows NetBackup Installation

Status Supported Platforms New <<All>> HP-UX AIX X Enhanced X Windows Solaris Linux

Description: The installation procedure for NetBackup on VCS for Windows is now equivalent to the installation operation for NetBackup on MSCS

Feature Benefits • Installation and configuration of NetBackup as a

highly available application is performed as a single continuous operation in a Windows VCS environment.


HP ServiceGuard Cluster Support

Status Supported Platforms X New <<All>> X HP-UX AIX Enhanced Windows Solaris Linux

Description: NetBackup servers can be configured for high availability in a HP Service Guard cluster environment.

Feature Benefits • NetBackup master and media server failover

support in a HP-SG environment • NetBackup client support in a HP-SG environment

Feature Notes/Limitations • VxSS Server is not supported as a failover application

in a HP ServiceGuard cluster • Advanced Client is not supported in a HP-SG cluster

environment. This support will be added to the online compatibility matrix as testing is completed.


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MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING

NetBackup Operations Manager Status Supported Platforms


Description: NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) is a new product feature developed to address NetBackup management needs of enterprise customers. It combines active real-time monitoring, historical reporting, administration, alert management, and troubleshooting assistance in a centralized web-based user interface. NOM delivers many of the management and reporting capabilities previously available in Global Data Manager and Advanced Reporter, but also adds new enhanced functionality beyond what these products offered.

Feature Benefits • Active management of NetBackup environment

including basic drive control, job control, policy management, and log management across multiple master servers.

• Web based user interface. • Configurable grouping based on user requirements

such as geographies or application. • Predefined reports with ability to copy, modify and

save. • Alert and notification management. • Customized reporting. Reports can be saved,

reused, imported, exported, and scheduled for execution.

Feature Notes/Limitations • NOM server must be installed on Windows or Solaris.

The NOM Agent, which runs on the managed servers, supports Windows, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX and AIX.

• The web based user interface can run on Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers.


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ENHANCEMENTS TO THE CORE

Intelligent Resource Manager Status Supported Platforms


Description: Intelligent Resource Manager (IRM) for NetBackup is the redeployment of current scheduler and job manager providing additional functionality. In addition to scheduling backup jobs, the IRM will allow users to prioritize backups, restores and duplications. The IRM will also provide, in cooperation with the Enterprise Media Management (EMM), the resource selection/allocation functionality currently embedded in the tape manager (bptm) and disk manager (bpdm).

Feature Benefits • Single point of control for all resource allocation

within NBU. • Reduce resource contention • Set priority for restores and duplication • Enable more rapid development of additional IRM

features in future

Feature Notes/Limitations • Users can set a Global priority for all restores (but

won't be able to specify a priority for a particular restore job)

Catalog Backup Enhancements


Description: The catalog backups have been enhanced considerably to improve RPO and RTO.

Feature Benefits • Performing catalog backups while other jobs may

be running. (Hot catalog backup) • Using a pool of tapes dedicated for catalog

backups. (Spanning tapes) • Choosing Full, or incremental catalog backup. • Backup the new Sybase ASA database


Ports Reduction


Description: Reduce the number of ports that needs to be opened in the firewall for NBU.

Feature Benefits • Number of ports used has been reduced to

generally only one port between a server and a client (two ports between servers).

• All connections between the server and bpcd will be initiated from the server

• Fewer configurations required for firewall-friendliness.

Feature Notes/Limitations • NBAC will add one or two additional ports


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Unified Logging


Description: EMM and IRM use VxUL. VxUL will reduce support costs and improve the customer experience with VERITAS products. This is accomplished by improving and standardizing error messages and log files across all VERITAS products and operating systems. Secondly, VxUL will provide better support for localization of the log messages.

Feature Benefits • Unique error codes • Improved error messages • Unified viewing of all error logs from a central

location • Control the size of the log files

Feature Notes/Limitations • Only EMM and IRM use VxUL. Other NBU

components continue to use the old-style logging. These will gradually switch over to VxUL gradually in future.

Robust Logging


Description: Robust Logging feature that enables users to prune log files more frequently than once a day. This feature enables users to set a maximum size of each of the debug log files and also set the maximum number of log files in each NetBackup debug log directory. This way, if the maximum size is exceeded a new debug log file is created. And if the Maximum number of debug log files is exceeded, the oldest log file will be deleted.

Feature Benefits • Manage log files better • Control the amount of space used by log files

Feature Notes/Limitations • This feature is not applicable to bprd, bpbkar, bpbrm,

bpcd, bpdbm, bptm, and bpdm.

TROUBLESHOOTING

Online Troubleshooting Guide Status Supported Platforms


Description: Provide the end user with a more in-depth troubleshooting guide specific to the Exit Status code in which they may encounter in using NetBackup. The troubleshooter GUI will now have a URL web link to a technical document (TechNote) located on the VERITAS Support website.

Feature Benefits • Quicker / easier to find information specific to error

codes • Faster problem resolution



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VAULT

Catalog Backup Improvement for Vault Status Supported Platforms


Description: Vault’s support for the new way NetBackup Catalog backup works.

Feature Benefits • It will now be possible to do concurrent Catalog

backups. There will be no need to do 2-stage Catalog Backups anymore.

Feature Notes/Limitations ● It will no longer be possible to backup additional files as part of a Vault Catalog backup.

Queue Vault Jobs


Description: Enable queuing of vault jobs if they belong to the same Vault instead of aborting the second job.

Feature Benefits • This gets rid of the limitation that you cannot have

2 sessions for the same Vault running in parallel. If a session is already in progress, the newer session (job) will get queued rather than aborting.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Ejects will also become sequential, which means we

will avoid commingling of tapes from different sessions.

CORBRA Infrastructure for Vault Configuration


Description: A CORBA based daemon that manages the Vault configuration database.

Feature Benefits • (Internal) Centralization of XML parsing logic,

protection against concurrent updates to XML, centralization point now available for “common” things (e.g. license checks, upgrade checks etc), more maintainable code.


Vault Reports: Distribution Granularity


Description: Finer level control over the way each report gets distributed.

Feature Benefits • Allows specifying distribution parameters per

individual report, where a single set of distribution parameter values applies for all reports.



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True Consolidation for Vault Reports


Description: “Consolidation”, over concatenation (current) of reports

Feature Benefits • A “True Consolidated” report will consolidate (in

most cases, add up) the data from all the participating vaults and sessions and generate a single report instead of doing mere concatenation. The current way of consolidation (concatenation) will still be supported for this release.

Feature Notes/Limitations • It will not be possible to consolidate between a

Container based Vault and a Slot based Vault.

GUI Support for Multiple Retention Mappings


Description: “Consolidation”, over concatenation (current) of reports

Feature Benefits • It will now be possible to configure multiple

retention parameters that Vault uses during duplication using the GUI. Currently, you need to edit flat files.

Feature Notes/Limitations • The flat files will go away, as this info will now become

part of the XML. The upgrade process would do this seamlessly though.

VERITAS Storage Migrator / Vault Integration


Description: GUI integration of VSM vaulting of tapes in to Vault.

Feature Benefits • Allows users to specify VSM tapes they want to

vault with in the vault profile rather than manually entering media IDs in the add-on media lists.

Feature Notes/Limitations • One limitation in this feature, mostly due to how VSM

functions, is that VSM customers will still have minimal manual configuration that has to be performed to eject VSM media because they still need to set the return date for VSM media by hand before Vault will pick them up.


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Bare Metal Restore (BMR)

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) Integration Status Supported Platforms

New X <<All>> HP-UX AIX X Enhanced Windows Solaris Linux

Description: Bare Metal Restore is now integrated option to NetBackup. It will no longer be sold as a separate product with unique Administrative Interface, licensing, media packaging, logging, installation/configuration (especially NetBackup policy configuration), etc. As an option to NetBackup it will integrated with NetBackup in key areas including:

o User Interface (NetBackup Administrative Console) o NetBackup internal infrastructure (ports, security, database, logging) o Product Documentation o Media Packaging o Licensing

Feature Benefits • BMR will be easier to understand, consume, install,

administer, and troubleshoot.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Due to the new NetBackup Catalog structure (which

BMR uses in this release), the footprint on the NBU Master Server may become larger. More information will be provided as available.

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) Windows Server

Status Supported Platforms New <<All>> HP-UX AIX X Enhanced X Windows Solaris Linux

Description: Currently, BMR server components run on UNIX platforms. This feature adds support for BMR server components running on Windows platforms.

Feature Benefits • Now BMR can be used in homogenous Windows

environments where UNIX and Linux BMR servers are not acceptable.

Feature Notes/Limitations • The BMR Windows Master Server component is

supported on NBU Master servers running on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. The BMR Windows Boot Server is supported on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 systems, and requires an NBU client to be installed. BMR will now require a Boot Server of the same platform as the protected clients (Windows for Windows, Solaris for Solaris, etc) Unix and Linux BMR Boot servers will no longer support Windows BMR clients (Windows BMR clients will require a Windows Boot Server).


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Bare Metal Restore (BMR) Support for VERITAS Storage Foundations

Status Supported Platforms New <<All>> X HP-UX X AIX X Enhanced X Windows X Solaris Linux

Description: Enhance BMR’s support of VxVM and VxFS (presently available only on Solaris) to include HP-UX, Windows (VxVM only), and AIX.

Feature Benefits • For VxVM and VxFS on these new platforms, BMR

will capture and save the volume and file system configuration, recreating the volume and file system configuration during the restore process, and possibly modify the volume and file system configuration before it is recreated (when appropriate).

Feature Notes/Limitations • Certain Storage Foundation features such as Dynamic

Multi-Pathing (DMP), volume sets, and multi-volume file systems are not supported.

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) Support for Linux Clients

Status Supported Platforms X New <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced Windows Solaris X Linux

Description: Extends the capabilities of BMR to the Linux platform for BMR Clients and BMR Boot Servers.

Feature Benefits • BMR-automated system recovery for Red Hat

AS/ES/WS 3.0 and SuSE SLES/SLSS 8.0.

Feature Notes/Limitations • The first release of the BMR Linux Client will support

the recovery of a same system configuration but not the Dissimilar System Restore feature (currently available on Windows only). BMR will support Dissimilar Disk Restore meaning that the system can have a different disk configuration on recovery. BMR will not support VERITAS Volume Manager on in this release.


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INTERNATIONALIZATION

I18N Support Status Supported Platforms

X New <<All>> X HP-UX X AIX Enhanced Windows X Solaris X Linux

Description: NetBackup has been (partially) internationalized for single locale operation in heterogeneous environments.

Feature Benefits • Directory and file names selection for backup and

restore can be in a non-English double-byte language, i.e. Japanese or Chinese.

• Operation messages will be presented in the chosen locale.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Locales must be the same between all systems. The

supported locales are ja_JP.EUC-JP, ja_JP.SJIS, zh_CN.GB-2312, zh_CN.GB-18030.

CLIENT

VxFS 4.1 File Change Log Support Status Supported Platforms

X New <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced Windows X Solaris Linux

Description: The newest planned version of the Veritas File System (VxFS 4.0) has a new feature, the file change log. NetBackup currently scans the file system looking for files to backup during incremental backups. This can be a slow process on file systems with very many files (millions or billions), and can be unneeded if most of the files don’t change very often. VxFS 4.0 is adding a file change log to track modifications to files, and NetBackup will use this log to determine which files to select for incremental backups, potentially saving huge amounts of unnecessary file system processing.

Feature Benefits • Improves incremental backup performance

Feature Notes/Limitations • Only UNIX clients running VxFS 4.1


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Database Agents

Off-Host Backup for Microsoft Exchange 2003 Status Supported Platforms

X New <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced X Windows Solaris Linux

Description: Perform an off-host backup of Microsoft Exchange via a VSS snapshot that is subsequently mounted on an alternate client. This is an Advanced Client feature.

Feature Benefits • Eliminates the CPU and I/O impact backups have

on the production Exchange system and moves this load to another machine referred to as the “alternate client”.

• Backups can be performed at any time – even at peak production times – without impacting email performance or responsiveness.

Feature Notes/Limitations • This feature requires both the Advanced Client and

the Exchange agent. • The client must be Windows 2003, and the alternate

client must also be Windows 2003. Earlier releases of Windows do not support VSS.

• Exchange 2003 only. Earlier versions do not support VSS.

• This method requires a VSS snapshot provider. Since the snapshot must be mounted on another host (the “alternate client”), a split-mirror snapshot must be used, such as FlashSnap or one of the supported disk array snapshots such as EMC Clariion. The embedded Windows VSS snapshot will not work because a copy-on-write snapshot cannot be mounted on another host.

• Restores can be performed directly to the Exchange server.



Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (beta)


Description: Support for the new release of SQL Server, also referred to in the past as SQL “Yukon”. This release includes a number of new features that will be leveraged by the NetBackup for SQL Server agent.

Feature Benefits • Support for page-level restores. Only damaged

pages are restored resulting in a faster restore. • Support for copy-only backups. A copy-only backup

is a full backup that does not interfere with an established full+incremental(s) backup sequence. This is especially useful when a snapshot backup is desired, but is not intended to restart the sequence of incremental backups.

• Improved in-progress feedback during backup and restore.

• Verify-only “restores”, which can be used to verify the SQL contents of a backup image without actually restoring data.

• Page verification processing. During a restore, each restored page can be verified and bad pages identified.

• Support for partial database backup & restore. During a database recovery, specified filegroups can be restored and made available prior to the entire database being online.

• Optimization for read-only data. Read-only data can be backed up less frequently, and read/write data can be recovered and made available prior to read-only data.

• Automation of tail-log recovery, which is an additional log recovery step needed during page-level recovery.

• Several NetBackup SQL GUI usability enhancements, including the display of database object properties.

Feature Notes/Limitations • The exact release date for SQL Server 2005 is not yet

known, but we plan to support the GA release as close as possible to the Microsoft release date.

• The new agent in NBU 6.0 has been designed to work with SQL 2005 and customers are free to test it with the SQL 2005 beta until the Microsoft GA. Note however that we will not be able to take support calls on beta releases.



Support for Microsoft SharePoint Portal 2003


Description: Support for SharePoint Portal Server 2003. This release uses SQL Server as the underlying data store.

Feature Benefits • Server farm configuration and single-sign-on

databases. • Portal Content, Profile, Search, and Index

databases. • Backward-compatible document libraries (migrated

from SPS 2001). • Run-time detection of new databases within the

server farm. • Advantages over just using the SQL Server agent

include: o The SharePoint farms and portals can be

browsed for backup and configured into policies using NetBackup interfaces. Also, the backup images are cataloged and the SharePoint objects can be browsed for restore.

o Dynamic discovery of new SharePoint hosts. When a user adds more hosts to their SharePoint “farm”, no policy changes are needed. If the policy is configured to backup the farm or a portal, any new SharePoint host is automatically included in the backup.

o All of the SharePoint data repositories (flat files and SQL Server databases) can be backed up with the same agent.

• The agent coordinates with the SharePoint APIs to prevent topology changes during the backup.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Support for SPS 2003 requires NBU 6.0. This agent

functionality will not be available with earlier releases of NetBackup.

• This agent supports both Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) environments (provided free with MS Windows 2003 Server) and SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) environments.

• At this time, we do not support document-level restore. Microsoft APIs do not currently support this feature, however we are investing other approaches and hope to deliver this functionality in an upcoming release.

• At this time, we do not support backup and recovery at the “site” level. Microsoft recently added this capability in SPS SP1. We will add this capability in a future release.



SAP Backup Integration with Oracle RMAN


Description: Obtain the benefits of RMAN when performing backups of SAP on Oracle.

Feature Benefits • Incremental backups of SAP will now be

possible. • Referential integrity. Logical errors in database

blocks are recognized automatically during the backup. This guarantees that each completed backup is consistent. This function can replace the weekly check with DBVERIFY.

• Null-block compression. Database blocks that are never used are not backed up, so reducing the number of blocks that have to be backed up.

• The SAP integration of the Oracle Recovery Manager gives you the following advantages:

o The recovery catalog is not used. Information on the backups is saved in the control file, which is saved after each backup. When data is being restored, first the control file is copied back, and then the data files.

o The integration of the RMAN into the BRBACKUP program guarantees automatic integration in the SAP System (CCMS).

o If you use the SAP Backup Library, you can continue to use BRBACKUP and BRARCHIVE tape management in the same way as before.

o You can continue to use an external BACKINT interface.

o The user interface of BR*Tools remains unchanged except for some new options.

• All previous SAP backup strategies can still be used with the RMAN. Nevertheless, RMAN has no relevance for standby database backups or split-mirror backups.




SAP Backint Support for SAP DB


Description: Protect SAP running on SAP DB (as opposed to Oracle) via the Backint interface.

Feature Benefits • Expands support of SAP environments to include

SAP deployments based on an underlying SAP DB database. SAP DB is a low-end database solution provided by SAP as an cost-effective alternative to a high-end RDBMS such as Oracle.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Prior support for SAP DB was via the Adapter

Program, a relatively inefficient mechanism. Support through Backint will provide superior performance to this method.

Support for Lotus Domino/Notes R7


Description: Support for the new release of Lotus Domino, release 7.

Feature Benefits • Support for all legacy backup and restore

capabilities available in previous releases. • The agent will now recognize Lotus data stored on

NFS or CIFS locations. This enhancement is not limited to Domino 7 but is also available in previous supported releases of Lotus Domino.

Feature Notes/Limitations • This release of Domino supports the use of IBM DB2

as an underlying data store as an alternative to the legacy NSF data format. This feature will NOT be supported with this agent release. Support for DB2 data stores will initially be via the DB2 agent and a tech note will be written to explain the proper procedure. Integrated support via the Lotus Notes agent will be added in a future release.


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Advanced Client

Support for Disk Array Snapshots on Windows Status Supported Platforms

X New <<All>> HP-UX AIX Enhanced X Windows Solaris Linux

Description: This feature will add certain 3rd party disk array snapshots to the list of supported snapshot providers.

Feature Benefits • A disk array snapshot can be used to perform

various Advanced Client operations on Windows 2003 systems.

Feature Notes/Limitations • Not all Advanced Client backup methods are

supported at this time. Only local snapshot backup and off-host alternate client backup is supported, and only within certain configurations.

• This feature uses VSS to coordinate snapshot creation. Only disk arrays that have a VSS snapshot provider can be supported in theory. At release time, a limited number of disk arrays will be tested and supported. The preliminary list includes the EMC Clariion and Hitachi disk arrays. A final list will be made available at release time, and more arrays will be certified after the release of NBU 6.0 based on customer demand.

• Only Windows 2003 clients can support VSS snapshots.

Snapshot Policy Configuration Wizard


Description: Wizard-Driven Snapshot Configurator

Feature Benefits • Guides the user through the process of configuring

snapshots and using them to perform various Advanced Client backup operations.



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Instant Recovery Enhancements


Description: Enhancements to the performance and flexibility of the Instant Recovery feature of the Advanced Client.

Feature Benefits • Support for SFW Fast File Resync when restoring

individual files on Windows, and for Oracle, SQL and DB2 databases on Windows, enhancing restore performance.

• Support for volume rollback with VxFS_Checkpoint and VxVM smapshots for Oracle and DB2, enhancing performance.

• Support for multiple snapshots on alternate client. • Enhanced snapshot retention methodology.


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