Hello Guys, I hope you are started evaluating NetBackup 7.0. It have lot of new features. Here are some of them. New features: Integrated deduplication ■ Client deduplication ■ Media server deduplication ■ OpsCenter ■ Convergence of NOM and VBR ■ Improved ease-of-use ■ Additional base reporting functionality ■ Direct upgrade path ■ Expanded and simplified deployment ■ OpsCenter Analytics ■ Turnkey operation to enable advanced, business reporting ■ Improved reporting features ■ NetBackup for VMware ■ Fully integrated with VMware vStorage APIs ■ New VM and file recovery from incremental backups ■ New recovery wizard ■ Tighter vCenter integration ■ Guided Recovery ■ New database agents and enhancements to existing agents ■ Exchange 2010 support ■ Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 client support ■ Enhancements to the NetBackup Enterprise Vault agent - Support all Enterprise Vault 8.0 databases using the Enterprise Vault Agent including the Fingerprint database, FSA Reporting database, and Auditing database - Enterprise Vault 8.0 support for granular quiescence - Enterprise Vault Migrator is now included with NetBackup ■ Enhancements to the NetBackup for Hyper-V agent - New file-level incremental backups - Two types of off-host backup - Hyper-V R2 and Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) - Flexible VM identification ■ Improved SharePoint Granular Recovery ■ New platform proliferation ■ NetBackup 7.0 supported platforms ■ NetBackup 7.0 feature notifications Known Issues: Domain is OpsCenterusers@domain not NOMBuiltin@domain ; that is an error in the documentation. The userid and password are admin and password Master server version reports NetBackup 3.4 incorrectly After Windows Reboot, OpsCenter fails to start. Fix is to Restart the Authentication Service then start the OpsCenter Services. Pop-Up Blocker prevents the OpsCenter interface from initializing. Turn off Pop-Up blocker to run OpsCenter. On 64 bit windows systems, OpsCenter install or upgrade might fail. Install "VC2005 x86" from the DVD (<DVD Drive>\x86\Server\Prerequisites\vcredist_x86.exe) If OpsCenter installation failed due to any reason, the roolback and cleanup may not happen correctly in some scenarios. The fix is to execute the command “ SC DELETE OPSCENTERSERVER” The Windows/Solaris installation will fail if the OpsCenter host is not part of any domain name. (host is not qualified with a suffix such as “min.veritas.com”) Workaround: The solution is to add a domain suffix and then re-install Drive throughput and Drive utilization reports don’t work in some scenarios Creation of a custom report doesn’t work if user chooses Absolute timeframe option Deduplication reports (Size factor, Protected Size vs. Backed up Size, Size Savings reports) don’t work in a PDDE environment. They only work in a standalone PureDisk environment. I wanted all of guys to share new experience in working Netbackup 7.0. Share us the New Finding/Errors.

I found that "The Symantec NetBackup 7.0 Beta program is currently closed". Do you know if it's still possible to get 7.0 version for Solaris SPARC?

That is a FINE cut and paste of TechNote 336166. Symantec NetBackup 7.0 Beta Program http://support.veritas.com/docs/336166 I'm a little curious if you had a reason for starting this thread beyond getting your 1 point, however. ;-) OK, I see you also posted some Known Issues for OpsCenter. Where'd you get those? Hopefully we fix most of them before 7.0 comes out! gavrilov, I think we're done bringing folks into this beta but it doesn't cost you anything to send an email to the address listed in that TechNote - worst that happens is they tell you "no." :)

Crz.. i want to get more experience in Netbackup 7. this is not meant to get points. that known issues is given by a symantec guy who is contacting Netbackup 7 beta. I would like to know how other guys are doing with in their environment. This post is just for guys who are testing Netbackup 7 in their. they can post their activities and issues facing. Hope you got my point.

CRZ, you are right. But then you see that the shop is "closed" i think it's not always good to knoсk and ask "Is it really closed?" :)

Datacenters in Virtual Center Server are located in a folder and when tries to browse for virtual machines in the backup policy, nothing shows up and no errors. When moves the datacenters from the folder , so that they are directly under the virtual center, the browse for virtual machines works just fine.

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Karthikeyan_Sun

Level 6

15 years ago

What and How is NetBackup 7

Hello Guys,

I hope you are started evaluating NetBackup 7.0. It have lot of new features. Here are some of them.

New features:

Integrated deduplication

■ Client deduplication

■ Media server deduplication

■ OpsCenter

■ Convergence of NOM and VBR

■ Improved ease-of-use

■ Additional base reporting functionality

■ Direct upgrade path

■ Expanded and simplified deployment

■ OpsCenter Analytics

■ Turnkey operation to enable advanced, business reporting

■ Improved reporting features

■ NetBackup for VMware

■ Fully integrated with VMware vStorage APIs

■ New VM and file recovery from incremental backups

■ New recovery wizard

■ Tighter vCenter integration

■ Guided Recovery

■ New database agents and enhancements to existing agents

■ Exchange 2010 support

■ Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 client support

■ Enhancements to the NetBackup Enterprise Vault agent

- Support all Enterprise Vault 8.0 databases using the Enterprise Vault

Agent including the Fingerprint database, FSA Reporting database, and

Auditing database

- Enterprise Vault 8.0 support for granular quiescence

- Enterprise Vault Migrator is now included with NetBackup

■ Enhancements to the NetBackup for Hyper-V agent

- New file-level incremental backups

- Two types of off-host backup

- Hyper-V R2 and Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

- Flexible VM identification

■ Improved SharePoint Granular Recovery

■ New platform proliferation

■ NetBackup 7.0 supported platforms

■ NetBackup 7.0 feature notifications

Known Issues:

Domain is OpsCenterusers@domain not NOMBuiltin@domain ; that is an error in the documentation. The userid and password are admin and password
Master server version reports NetBackup 3.4 incorrectly
After Windows Reboot, OpsCenter fails to start. Fix is to Restart the Authentication Service then start the OpsCenter Services.
Pop-Up Blocker prevents the OpsCenter interface from initializing. Turn off Pop-Up blocker to run OpsCenter.
On 64 bit windows systems, OpsCenter install or upgrade might fail. Install "VC2005 x86" from the DVD (<DVD Drive>\x86\Server\Prerequisites\vcredist_x86.exe)
If OpsCenter installation failed due to any reason, the roolback and cleanup may not happen correctly in some scenarios. The fix is to execute the command “ SC DELETE OPSCENTERSERVER”
The Windows/Solaris installation will fail if the OpsCenter host is not part of any domain name. (host is not qualified with a suffix such as “min.veritas.com”) Workaround: The solution is to add a domain suffix and then re-install
Drive throughput and Drive utilization reports don’t work in some scenarios
Creation of a custom report doesn’t work if user chooses Absolute timeframe option
Deduplication reports (Size factor, Protected Size vs. Backed up Size, Size Savings reports) don’t work in a PDDE environment. They only work in a standalone PureDisk environment.

I wanted all of guys to share new experience in working Netbackup 7.0.

Share us the New Finding/Errors.

63 Replies

Mike_Gavrilov
Level 6
15 years ago
I found that "The Symantec NetBackup 7.0 Beta program is currently closed". Do you know if it's still possible to get 7.0 version for Solaris SPARC?
CRZ
Level 6
15 years ago
That is a FINE cut and paste of TechNote 336166.

Symantec NetBackup 7.0 Beta Program
http://support.veritas.com/docs/336166

I'm a little curious if you had a reason for starting this thread beyond getting your 1 point, however. ;-)

OK, I see you also posted some Known Issues for OpsCenter. Where'd you get those? Hopefully we fix most of them before 7.0 comes out!

gavrilov, I think we're done bringing folks into this beta but it doesn't cost you anything to send an email to the address listed in that TechNote - worst that happens is they tell you "no." :)
Karthikeyan_Sun
Level 6
15 years ago
Crz.. i want to get more experience in Netbackup 7. this is not meant to get points.

that known issues is given by a symantec guy who is contacting Netbackup 7 beta.

I would like to know how other guys are doing with in their environment.

This post is just for guys who are testing Netbackup 7 in their. they can post their activities and issues facing.

Hope you got my point.
Mike_Gavrilov
Level 6
15 years ago
CRZ, you are right.
But then you see that the shop is "closed" i think it's not always good to knoсk and ask "Is it really closed?" :)
Karthikeyan_Sun
Level 6
15 years ago
Datacenters in Virtual Center Server are located in a folder and when tries to browse for virtual machines in the backup policy,
nothing shows up and no errors.

When moves the datacenters from the folder , so that they are directly under the virtual center, the browse for virtual machines works just fine.
CRZ
Level 6
15 years ago
My take on it is, if we didn't take the email address out, you can still use it. :) Dealer's choice!
Mike_Gavrilov
Level 6
15 years ago
I'm already downloading 7.0 :) Thank you for good advice :)
NavA
Level 4
15 years ago
one of the features i liked is policy auditing in opscenter. You can keep track of policy changes and also gives you option to restore older version of the policy.
Amit_Karia
Level 6
15 years ago
If any one has used 7.0 wanted to know what is the upgrade process from 6.5 to 7.. nbpushdata is required or it is plain upgrade like 6.0 to 6.5?
NavA
Level 4
15 years ago
If you are talking about 7.0 Beta it only supports clean installation.

Quote from NB70_Beta_Priemer.pdf
"Upgrades from a previous NetBackup Alpha, Beta, or an earlier version of
NetBackup to this Beta release are not supported."