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How to Get Updates From Symantec >Symantec keeps you up to date with email subscriptions to support content.  

Well i got a lots of help from this TECH Note , As i need HOT FIXES OF New Version 7.5.0.5 and i donot know the link, Then Symantec Helps me

Thanks a lot Symantec 

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7.5 Late Breaking News

Article:TECH178334  |  Created: 2012-01-05  |  Updated: 2013-04-03  |  Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH178334
 

 

 

Problem



The NetBackup 7.5 Late Breaking News Bulletin has been created in order to provide customers updates on Documentation and Known Issues discovered post release.  These documents attempt to highlight the most "common" known issues and concerns reported by customers.

 

Guidelines regarding the availability of EEBs/Hotfixes for NetBackup can be found here:

 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH146232

 

 


Environment



Installation and Upgrade Checklist:

An Installation and Upgrade Checklist is available for NetBackup 7.5 on the SORT website to determine 7.5 requirements for master, media and clients:
 https://sort.symantec.com/home

 

SORT also provides the ability to audit EEBs/Hotfixes in your environment to determine if they are resolved in a current version of NetBackup. You can access the EEB Auditor on SORT at the link below.
 https://sort.symantec.com/netbackuphfauditor


Solution



Known Issues: Please select the hyperlink on each topic for more information on each issue.

Appliance Issues:
Appliance-specific issues are collected in the NetBackup 5xxx Appliance series Late Breaking News:
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH145136

 

Installation Issues:
Please review the NetBackup 7.x Upgrade Portal for additional information on the 7.5 Upgrade: 
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH74584

(NEW) In NetBackup 7.1.0.4, when running "bpdbm -consistency -move," valid NDMP images may be found to be "corrupt" and moved when they should not be moved.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH204140

Key Performance considerations for NetBackup 7.5 master servers 
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH202840

(ET2783979) During installation of a 7.5.0.x maintenance release, if the <install_path>/openv/db/data directory is a link, the installation will fail.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH189078

When applying a 7.5.0.x maintenance release on a Solaris server, if insufficient space exists in /tmp, the patch process will abort, leaving a master or media server with only the client binaries installed.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH189085

(ET2772490) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.3>> After an upgrade to NetBackup 7.5.0.1 where NBAC is in place, authorization services start and shut down suddenly. (This issue will not be seen during an upgrade to 7.5.0.3.)
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH189336

(ET2701424) <<Fix Downloadable>> Attempting to upgrade a Netbackup cluster with GCO to 7.5 on VCS 5.1 SP2 fails with an RPC error.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH185933

(ET2696992) <<Fix Downloadable>> Installing NetBackup 7.5 client on to a 64-bit Windows server running postgreSQL fails.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH182539

 

Updates for Replication Director:
Replication Director Digest - The latest updates on Symantec NetBackup Replication Director
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH164644

 

Auto Image Replication Issues:
Recommended NetBackup and PureDisk software versions and EEBs for use with Auto Image Replication
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH200177

(ET2941256) List of fixes included in the 7.5.0.4 bundle for Auto Image Replication
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH200156

Manually importing replicated images on an AIR target server should be done with extreme caution as it can lead to unexpected image expiration if not managed correctly. 
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH200952

 

Other Issues:
After upgrading to NetBackup 7.5.0.x, VMware Backups are slower than expected
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH191183

NetBackup deduplication backup jobs may fail with status 84
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH183707

After upgrade to NetBackup 7.5, MSDP storage volume is down
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH183704

 

Latest Issues:
(NEW) (ET3113092) When running the NetBackup 7.5.0.5 Java admin console and restoring windows clients to alternate directories, an "invalid destination pathname" error is displayed.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH203806

(NEW) (ET3105408) Backup and Duplication jobs to and from an Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) appear to hang or take an extended period of time to complete.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH201423

(NEW) (ET3055770) Attempts to view SharePoint topology in SharePoint Server 2010 using the NetBackup GUI fail.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH202784

(ET3106719) <<Fix Downloadable>> After upgrading a master server to NetBackup 7.5.0.5 (or applying NetBackup 5200/5220 Appliances 2.5.2 to an Appliance running as a master server), the Activity Monitor reports inconsistent information on job status for some jobs. Additionally, some jobs may not display in OpsCenter.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH203521

(ET2985395) bpbkar32.exe faults on DFSR backup jobs of NetBackup 7.5.0.x Windows clients.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH201918

(ET3002480) VMware Backups of Linux Servers using EXT4 may fail with Status 12 (db_FLISTsend failed: file open failed (12))
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH199924

 

NetBackup 7.5.0.5 is now available!
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH199269

NetBackup 7.5 Maintenance Release 5 (7.5.0.5) includes fixes for the issues marked below (including all fixes contained in the NetBackup 7.5.0.1-7.5.0.4 maintenance releases) and additional fix content.  All customers are encouraged to apply the 7.5.0.5 maintenance release as part of normal maintenance. ALL issues listed below this header are resolved in NetBackup 7.5.0.5.

(NEW) (ET3059678) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> A NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server agent backup fails sporadically with status code 6.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH204104

(ET2966213) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> Java GUI PREVIEW showing tapes needed for a restore fails - "Null for the fileData arg. The exception was thrown from (SR-1)writefile"
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH202933

(ET2948703) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> VMware backups failing with status 13: file read failed.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH199087

(ET3003371) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> Backup jobs do not get scheduled, existing backups hang on very busy systems when a large number of messages are written to the netbackup/db/error log files.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH199637

(ET2952065) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> NetBackup 7.5.0.x backups with multiplexing, multistreaming and checkpoint restart enabled may hang when a large file is encountered.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH194918

(ET3018058) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> nbsl experiences a memory leak which results in a core dump.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH201979

(ET2873147) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> On some UNIX master servers, Sybase is leaking semaphores and the EMM_DATA.db grows very large.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH196040

(ET2990617) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> <<Fix Downloadable>> When a transaction log backup image for restoring from the SQL Agent is clicked on, the agent crashes.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH201595

(ET2935722) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> <<Fix Downloadable>> In some cases ,when a snapshot job is canceled the snapshot process will continue on the client.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH201597

(ET2954551) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> VMware incremental backups fail with status 13,84 to MSDP storage unit (deduplication). Error 2060022 (software error) appears in the pdplugin log.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH194989

(ET2990106) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> The bpexpdate -deassignempty command returns an exit status 97 after applying NetBackup version 7.5.0.3 or 7.5.0.4.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH199730

(ET2979563) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> All backups stopped running, jobs that were running appeared to be hung and child jobs were never spawned.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH200151

(ET2988317) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> Tech Alert: Duplicated copies managed by a Storage Lifecycle Policy created with expiration dates beyond the UNIX epoch (January 19, 2038 03:14:07 UTC) are prematurely expired. This condition does not occur when a retention level set to "infinity" is used.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH200501

(ET3013181) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> <<Fix Downloadable>> NetBackup 7.5 produces Status 156 on the inactive node of a Windows 2008 cluster
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH199089

(ET2987107) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> <<Fix Downloadable>> Mapped FullVM backups are failing to map large dynamic disk on a virtual machine


 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH199940

(ET2991238) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> <<Fix Downloadable>> BMR enabled backup job is partially successful (status code 1) after upgrade to Netbackup 7.5.0.4, Parent job fails reporting status code 26
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH200322

(ET2950392) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> Bare Metal Restore (BMR) RedHat 6.3 clients fail to import config file.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH197218

(ET2799175) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> In NetBackup 7.5.0.x, DSSU cleanup fails, triggering backup failures when the disk becomes full.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH190995

(ET2950431) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.5>> VMware clients are displaying client name as IP address in OpsCenter Virtual Client Summary report
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH198098

 

NetBackup 7.5.0.4:
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH194138

(ET2905057) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> Tech Alert: When duplicating images to a PDDO storage pool, if duplication fails initially but succeeds on a later attempt, it is possible that the duplicated images will be unrestorable.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH199640

(ET2846239) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> SQL backup jobs randomly failing.  Dbbackex.exe process does not exit after failure.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH193970

(ET2785499) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> Duplications jobs ending with Status 190, parent job ends with Status 191 when image is on a DSSU.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH190087

(ET2835170) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> Tech Alert: On an alternate client, off-host snapshots back up the local drive instead of the snapshot volume.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH197964

(ET2849987) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> Tech Alert: A tape holding copy 1 of a synthetic full backup may have its expiration time set incorrectly when under the control of a storage lifecycle policy.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH196020

(ET2777863) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> When performing a Test Query using the VMware Intelligent Policy, the number of virtual machines (VMs) returned is incorrect.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH194483

(ET2823087) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> SAP backup of files larger than 4GB fail.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH196403

(ET2833456) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> Incremental VMware Backups to deduplication pool is failing with Status 13/84
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH190326

Note: The following hotfixes for NetBackup 7.5.0.3 are no longer available:

(ET2824762) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> After upgrading to Netbackup 7.5, Active Directory Granular Backups fail with a status code 1 when doing Cumulative or Differential backups (fulls continue to work)
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH191790

(ET2876501) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> NB_7.5.0.3_ET2876501_1.zip is an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) bundle replacement for NetBackup 7.5.0.3.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH194338

This bundle includes resolutions for the following issues:

(ET2719194) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> After upgrading to NetBackup 7.5, Storage Life Cycle Policy (SLP) duplication jobs do not run.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH184142

(ET2832342) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> After upgrading to NetBackup version 7.5 through 7.5.0.3, multiple bpdbm processes appear to be using excessive CPU time. 
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH193765

(ET2842910) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> OST to TAPE Direct Duplication is not working properly after upgrading to NetBackup 7.5
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH193964


(ET2829119) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> NB_7.5.0.3_ET2829119_2.zip is an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) bundle replacement for NetBackup 7.5.0.3.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH191982

This bundle includes a resolution for the following issue:

(ET2817226) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> Tech Alert: Differential incremental catalog backups may skip recently updated configuration information. This can result in restores which will not bring configuration state to the expected point in time.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH190969
 

(ET2838857) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> NB_7.5.0.3_ET2838857_4.zip is an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) replacement for nbpem for NetBackup 7.5.0.3.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH192530

This EEB includes resolutions for the following issues:

(ET2836511) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> After upgrading to NetBackup 7.5.0.3 virtual machine (VMware) backups run multiple times, eventually failing with status code 196 reported.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH192104

(ET2746518) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> Calendar schedules will be run multiple times in the backup window in 7.5 if the Backup window spans midnight and the backup starts prior to midnight and finished on the next day.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH189216

(ET2836015) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> Query base VMware Backup using Calendar schedule may fail with Status: 196 (client backup was not attempted because backup window closed)
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH190338

(ET2824075) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.4>> After upgrading to NetBackup 7.5.0.3, VMware Backups started failing with "the backup failed to back up the requested files(6)" reported.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH191198

 

NetBackup 7.5.0.3:
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH189607

(ET2780187) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.3>> In NetBackup 7.5, if bpexpdate -recalculate is invoked from the command line without the -d or -ret option, incorrect expiration dates for images may be recalculated, which may lead to early expiration of those images.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH188688

(ET2781929) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.3>> Archived catalog images are not migrated correctly to NetBackup 7.5
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH188991

(ET2735545) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.3>> After upgrading the NetBackup master server to version 7.5.0.1, 7.5 media servers using disk staging storage units (DSSU) fail intermittently with status code 2106 reported.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH186151

(ET2717247) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.3>> After upgrading to NetBackup 7.5, VMware Backups hang when attempting to write to MSDP storage pools.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH184113

<<Fixed in 7.5.0.3>> "Unable to read configuration: server not allowed access (46)" after selecting Change Server
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH184048

Note: The following hotfix for NetBackup 7.5.0.1 is no longer available:

(ET2785535) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.3>> NB_7.5.0.1_ET2785535_3.zip is an Emergency Engineering Binary (EEB) replacement for nbpem for NetBackup 7.5.0.1.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH189326

(ET2769435) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.3>> The NetBackup nbpem process is faulting during backup windows.
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH188501

 

NetBackup 7.5.0.1:
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH184314

Note: The following hotfixes for NetBackup 7.5 are no longer available:

<<Fixed in 7.5.0.1>> Replication Director Support Hotfix (NB_7.5_ET2698773_1.zip, NB_7.5_ET2698772_1.zip)
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH182573

(multiple etracks) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.1>> NB_7.5_ET2710406_1.zip is a Hotfix for 7.5 Master Servers
 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH182934

(ET2682336) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.1>> After Upgrade to NetBackup 7.5, backlevel Media Servers using DSSU jobs fail with 190
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH181378

(multiple etracks) <<Fixed in 7.5.0.1>> DSSU/SLP duplications fail to run after 7.5 Upgrade
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH182929