Veritas NetBackup™

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 Contents

Chapter 1 NetBackup release content listings ............................... 5

About NetBackup release content listings ............................................ 5

About the NetBackup "known issues" documentation conventions
............................................................................................. 6

Chapter 2 EEBs and other known issues resolved in

NetBackup 8.1.1 ............................................................ 7
Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 .................................. 7
Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 ................................ 15

Chapter 3 EEBs and other known issues resolved in

NetBackup 8.1 .............................................................. 22
Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 .................................. 22
Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1 .................................. 42

Appendix A About SORT for NetBackup Users ............................... 53

About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools ...................... 53
Recommended SORT procedures for new installations ........................ 54
Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades .................................. 58
 Chapter 1
NetBackup release
content listings
This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About NetBackup release content listings

■ About the NetBackup "known issues" documentation conventions

About NetBackup release content listings

Each release of NetBackup incorporates fixes to several known issues that affected
previous versions of NetBackup. Some of these fixes are associated with the
customer-specific issues that have been documented in the form of customer cases.
Several of the customer-related fixes that are incorporated into each release are
also made available as emergency engineering binaries (EEBs).
The NetBackup Emergency Engineering Binary Guide contains the following
information:
■ Tables that list the EEBs that were incorporated into NetBackup releases
■ Release content listings of some of the known issues that were fixed in
NetBackup releases
The NetBackup Emergency Engineering Binary Guide is published for each major
release and minor (single-dot) release. The guide is then periodically updated to
include the EEB and release content listings for subsequent double-dot and triple-dot
releases.
Much of the information that is found in the NetBackup Emergency Engineering
Binary Guide can also be found on the Veritas Services and Operations Readiness
Tools (SORT) website using the NetBackup Hot Fix and EEB Release Auditor
widget.
 NetBackup release content listings 6
About the NetBackup "known issues" documentation conventions

See “About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools” on page 53.

Note: If you do not see information about an EEB or a fixed issue that you expected
to see in the NetBackup Emergency Engineering Binary Guide or in SORT, contact
Veritas Support.

About the NetBackup "known issues"

documentation conventions
The following items describe the conventions used in the NetBackup known issues
listings:
■ Etrack Incident
Notes the Etrack number that targets a release
■ Associated Primary Etrack
An additional Etrack number that exists in the incident hierarchy
■ Associated Service Request Etrack
The Etrack that is associated with the customer support service request
■ Description
Describes a particular issue that has been fixed in a release, as well as additional
notes and workarounds (if available).
Workarounds can be used instead of applying the patch, however, Veritas
recommends the best practice of operating at the latest available NetBackup
release level.
■ **Description or **Etrack number
Describes a critical issue or an issue that can lead to a potential data loss that
has been fixed in this release
Please read these issue descriptions carefully. In some cases, a Tech Alert link
is provided.
 Chapter 2
EEBs and other known
issues resolved in
NetBackup 8.1.1
This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

■ Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 contains a listing of known issues with NetBackup that were identified,
fixed, and made available to customers in the form of an emergency engineering
binary (EEB). NetBackup 8.1.1 resolves the issues that were fixed with each of
these EEBs.
More information on the Etracks that are listed in this topic (and any other service
request Etrack) can be found using the Veritas Services and Operations Readiness
Tools (SORT) website.
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Etrack Number EEB Description

3864545 Restore, duplication, or verify of NDMP backup fails. The bptm log shows error
'create_ndmp_frag_info: The size of this backup image (0) (nnnn) has been modified'. The
steps in TECH177654 do not solve the problem.

3869844 NDMP backup finishes with a partial success, but backup selection fails with error messages.
 EEBs and other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 8
Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3873176 An NDMP Restore from backup fails with partial success and error messages. Note that this
EEB must be in place before you attempt the backup.

3877162 A Job Finalized alert policy does not generate alert messages if all backup policies are
selected using the check box next to the master server name, and then some policies are
manually deselected using their check boxes.

3881330 An NDMP Restore from backup fails with partial success and error messages. Note that this
EEB must be in place before you attempt the backup.

3882350 An NDMP restore fails with error 91: "the size of this backup image has been modified." This
EEB creates a way to duplicate a copy with bad fragment information, in order to create a
new usable copy from which restores can be made.

3891624 NDMP restore fails with error 2850.

3899040 When running a Hyper-V backup using a System Center Virtual Machine Manager query,
the query detects multiple virtual machines (VMs) with the same ID, which causes primary
VMs to be marked as not to be backed up.

3903935 A Hyper-V Intelligent Policy excludes replicated virtual machines because it detects that they
are duplicates.

3903951, version 3, 2, This EEB allows NetBackup 7.7.3 to integrate with Velocity R7. The changes in this EEB
1 allow NetBackup to write Oracle Copilot backups to a Velocity share, and enables Velocity
to provision a copy from that database.

3903952, version 3, 2, This EEB allows NetBackup 8.0 to integrate with Velocity R7/R8. The changes in this EEB
1 allow NetBackup to write Oracle Copilot backups to a Velocity share, and enables Velocity
to provision a copy from that database.

3907391 A Job Finalized alert policy intermittently fails to generate alert messages when all backup
policies are selected using the check box next to the master server name, and then some
policies are manually unchecked.

3907945 An OpsCenter report fails with error 1043 ("request interrupted due to timeout") if the original
SQL query is large and complex.

3907957 OpsCenter displays a large number of backup operations for multiple SLPs, even though
only one backup operation is configured for these SLPs in NetBackup.

3910991 When backing up all instances of SQL 2012 or higher, the backup will complete with status
0, even if an instance was skipped due to a permission error.
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Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3914581 Attempting to restore a high-availability virtual machine (VM) to its original location fails with
status 2821 ("Hyper-V policy restore error" if the VM owner node of the cluster is in a paused
state.

3915496 Backups of SQL 2012 and later complete with status 0 even if all instances are not backed
up successfully.

3915497 Backups of SQL 2012 and later complete with status 0 even if all instances are not backed
up successfully.

3915744 The Backup and Restore GUI in the NetBackup Administration Console displays incorrect
or blank sizes for Exchange folders.

3916608 After restoring a "C:\User\%username%" Directory on Windows 2016 Server, the Start Menu
no longer works and the following critical Windows error is presented: "Your Start menu isn't
working. We'll try to fix it the next time you sign in."

3916719 When attempting to perform a bare metal restore, volume creation fails for the spanned
volume.

3916879 The disk pool goes down intermittently on a Windows-based MSDP pool. This issue can be
resolved by restarting the media server.

3917141 Backup jobs intermittently fail due to an access violation. The dbbackex.exe process is
terminated by the operating system.

3918226 When using the tpautoconf command to create or list global tape drive rules, the command
produces a core dump.

3918337 A GRT restore browse fails with status 227 ("no entity was found") for Exchange 2016.

3919816, version 1 Unable to log into a restored EC2 client after a successful C: drive and system state full
restore. Login fails with error: "An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security
Authority cannot be contacted."

3919972 After successfully installing a NetBackup master server, the installer posts messages to the
event viewer incorrectly indicating that all installed products were reconfigured.

3920234 An image cleanup job fails with status code 156 ("snapshot error encountered") because the
job tried to delete a VxFS checkpoint which did not exist.

3920243 The disk pool goes down intermittently on a Windows-based MSDP pool, and multi-threaded
agents time out with errors. This issue can be resolved by restarting the media server.

3920395 A "Client Summary Dashboard" report in OpsCenter shows old clients which no longer have
any data or which are no longer in NetBackup.
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Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3920591 Deselecting a NetBackup policy in a Job Finalized alert policy in OpsCenter deselects all
NetBackup policies. This prevents any alerts from being raised from those policies.

3920798 "Week at a glance" reports in OpsCenter attempt to display the next week, and show blank
data. If the report is adjusted to display the previous week, it will display the current week.

3920950 The "Job Count - Actual" column of a Backup Window report shows inaccurate data in
OpsCenter.

3921477 The OpsCenter domain_JobArchive table contains many null rows, which slows down reports
and causes the database to grow.

3921830 After upgrading from NetBackup 7.6.1.2 to 7.7.3 and 8.0, legacy SQL backups fail with multiple
ODBC authentication errors.

3921922 If a backup job times out because it was unable to get a resource within the 10 minute
backint_response_timeout limit, child processes of hdbbackint are not terminated.

3922908 This EEB changes the default separator character in the job directory column of a Tabular
Report from a forward slash (/) to a period (.).

3922968 Multiplexed Hyper-V backups using Windows Management Instrumentation fail with status
code 20 ("invalid command parameter").

3923206 Unable to expand Exchange mailboxes in the restore browser. The browser also shows a
public folder mailbox in all databases, instead of only in the database that hosts it, and
inappropriately displays system mailboxes.

3923398 A Backup Duration Variance Report only shows data from the past 24 hours. The report
returns no data if any time period longer than 24 hours is selected.

3923656 An NDMP restore fails with the NDMP error "could not find block number", even if the original
backup of that file succeeded with status 1.

3924355 A SharePoint 2016 granular restore fails with the error "ERR - error cleaning virtual view" in
a clustered SQL environment.

3924548 The AIR replication rate is slower than the specified bandwidthlimit setting.

3924964 This EEB fixes several issues with Exchange 2016 CU5. The Exchange interface cannot
expand, restore, or browse any mailboxes, can only expand a public folder mailbox from the
database that hosts it, and cannot restore system mailboxes.

3924973 An Active Directory GRT restore fails consistently with JET_ERR on Windows 2016.

3925093 When multiple reports are attached to one outbound email from OpsCenter, the error "Failed
to create report" is injected into the body of the email.
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Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3925316 If BACKUP_FIFO_FILES is set to 1, the Backup/Archive Manager process waits forever

when it encounters an empty FIFO. If the user exits, the Backup/Restore Manager and
NetBackup Tape Manager exit, but the Backup/Archive Manager continues waiting.

3925447, version 1 Files which are restored from Flashbackup are offset by 1024 bytes if the master server is a
NetBackup appliance.

3925495 The "Optimize Duplicate Images" feature does not work if the source and target servers are
the same.

3925527 Every snapshot and every backup job creates an XML file in the NetBackup\db\jobs\restart
directory, and this directory consumes large amounts of disk space.

3925721 In NetBackup 8.1.1, setting the "Buffer_Size" registry dword to zero (0), or even deleting the
value, does not prevent Windows 2012 from auto-tuning TCP memory.

3926117 If BACKUP_FIFO_FILES is set to 1, the Backup/Archive Manager process waits forever

when it encounters an empty FIFO. If the user exits, the Backup/Restore Manager and
NetBackup Tape Manager exit, but the Backup/Archive Manager continues waiting.

3926279 After upgrading from NetBackup 7.6.1.2 to 7.7.3 and 8.0, legacy SQL backups fail with multiple
ODBC authentication errors.

3926631 The NetBackup Accelerator change journal is not enumerated on an NTFS deduplication
volume when a deduplication job is scheduled.

3926830 Client side deduplication fails on x86 Windows clients with job details indicating critical bptm
errors.

3927352 The "tpautoconf" command generates a core dump in a Solaris environment when trying to
configure tape drive name rules.

3928190 Low Available Media alerts are not generated correctly based on available media.

3929512 An incremental backup of DFSR data does not back up files with non-ASCII characters in
their names.

3929677 Backup jobs fail because Oracle.exe exhausts Windows handles. The Oracle.exe program
must be restarted in order for new backups to succeed.

3929757 Restore fails with error 5 ("the restore failed to recover the requested files"). Policy validation
and snapshot creation fail with error 4201.

3929836 Restore fails with error 5 ("the restore failed to recover the requested files"). Policy validation
and snapshot creation fail with error 4201.
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Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3929868, version 1 An Oracle multi-stream restore fails with status 135 (""client is not validated to perform the
requested operation"). The child restore jobs fail their authorization with the NetBackup
request daemon (bprd).

3929979 When a non-administrator user attempts to perform a User Archive, the delete operation fails
even though the backup was successful.

3930143 Duplication of NDMP images fails with a "socket write failed" error, and VxSS authentication
fails with status code 116.

3930222 Several processes, including the NetBackup Request Daemon (bprd), might generate a core
dump while connecting to the NetBackup Client daemon (bpcd) running on the local host.

3930306 If a gvfs volume is mounted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 after an upgrade to NetBackup
8.0, a status 1 error (permission denied) is produced.

3930431 In NetBackup 8.0, setting the "Buffer_Size" registry dword to zero (0), or even deleting the
value, does not prevent Windows 2012 from auto-tuning TCP memory.

3930433 In NetBackup 8.1, setting the "Buffer_Size" registry dword to zero (0), or even deleting the
value, does not prevent Windows 2012 from auto-tuning TCP memory.

3930630 An incomplete OpsCenter job alert is missing its status and job schedule details. This EEB
adds these attributes to the job alert details of incomplete OpsCenter job alerts.

3930668 When attempting to restore a VMware virtual machine to a vCenter using a restore ESX
server, the restore fails with status 2820 ("NetBackup VMware policy restore error").

3930819 After restoring a "C:\User\%username%" Directory on Windows 2016 Server, the Start Menu
no longer works and the following critical Windows error is presented: "Your Start menu isn't
working. We'll try to fix it the next time you sign in."

3930861 If a scheduled backup runs while a Full Image Restore of a virtual machine is running, the
restore finishes but fails with status 2820 ("NetBackup VMware policy restore error").

3930870 Unable to restore a virtual machine and keep the same UUID information.

3930915 A Windows-based MSDP disk pool goes down intermittently. Rebooting the media server
brings the disk pool back.

3931005 Oracle Recovery Manager backups that use the SAN client delay closing connections between
application jobs for up to 30 minutes.

3931141 Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) backups process for a long time before actually
beginning to move data.
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Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3931145 Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) backups include too many files when you use
archive bits to perform differential-incremental backup jobs.

3931172 After upgrading a Windows 2012 master server and Windows 2012 MSDP media servers
from NetBackup 7.7.3 to 8.1, the spoold process crashes on the source and destination hosts
when running an SLP duplication job.

3931218 The "Client Summary Dashboard" report in OpsCenter shows old clients which no longer
have any data and which are no longer in NetBackup.

3931222 Backups of Enterprise Vault 12.2 fail.

3931412 Restore fails with error 5 ("the restore failed to recover the requested files"). Policy validation
and snapshot creation fail with error 4201.

3931764 If NetBackup Access Control is enabled, the nbholdutil command reports the error "Access
to perform the operation was denied".

3931817 After upgrading from NetBackup 7.7.3 to 8.1, VMware snapshot jobs fail with the error
message "File path contains unsupported characters" if a virtual machine name contains a
colon character (":").

3931847 This EEB allows you to use the OST Provision function with Veritas Velocity.

3931897 The NetBackup Database Manager (bpdbm) crashes and produces a core dump while saving
a storage lifecycle policy (SLP) if the storage unit group is used in any SLP operations.

3931940 If a scheduled backup runs while a Full Image Restore of a virtual machine is running, the
restore finishes but fails with status 2820 ("NetBackup VMware policy restore error").

3931942 A virtual machine cannot be restored with the same UUID information using Instant Restore.

3932360, version 1 The NetBackup Deduplication Engine (spoold.exe) stops working after upgrading from
NetBackup 7.7.3 to 8.1.

3932377 If a backup job times out because it was unable to get a resource within the 10 minute
backint_response_timeout limit, child processes of hdbbackint are not terminated.

3932379 If a backup job times out because it was unable to get a resource within the 10 minute
backint_response_timeout limit, child processes of hdbbackint are not terminated.

3932380 During log backups when multiple backup jobs are executing at the same time, the main
hdbbackint process is stopped after a 10 minute timeout, but child processes are not
terminated.
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Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3932381 During log backups when multiple backup jobs are executing at the same time, the main
hdbbackint process is terminated after a 10 minute timeout, but child processes are not
terminated.

3932437 Hosts located in time zones in which daylight savings time borders midnight initiate a large
number of debug logs on the day before the daylight savings change occurs.

3932513 OpsCenter 8.1 does not connect to a NetBackup 8.1 master server when running on an 8.1
medi server. The OpsCenter interface displays the "Not Connected" status with the reason
"OpsCenter machine is not reachable from the specified master server."

3932632 Logical volumes with fully-numeric names are not resolved during File Mapping. If this occurs
in a LVM group, individual file mapping fails to resolve on all of the logical volumes in the
group.

3932784 If multiple replicated virtual machines meet the UUID criteria of a Hyper-V Intelligent Policy
query, the policy does not select the replicated machines.

3932874 The OpsCenter "Client Summary Dashboard" report shows clients that are no longer in
NetBackup, or which have no valid images.

3933582 The OpsCenter 8.0 "Backup History Selection" feature displays inaccurate information about
some backup image locations, disk pool names, and copies.

3933701 A Windows Bare Metal Restore fails with "Required registry hives are not loaded. Unable to
continue."

3934118 An Auto Image Replication job fails if rebasing occurs on the target server if the target has
been upgraded from NetBackup 7.7.3 to NetBackup 8.1.

3934368, version 2, 1 Image cleanup is delayed on 5330 media servers, and replication jobs from NetBackup 7.7.3
to 8.1 fail.

3934994 The NetBackup Policy Execution Manager (nbpem) consumes high CPU loops, and fails
with status 196 in certain time zones if a calendar-based backup schedule is due on a day
on which daylight savings time moves the time forward from midnight to 1:00 AM.

3935104 Browsing performance in a GRT-enabled Microsoft Exchange image is very slow.

3935219, version 6, 5, After upgrading to NetBackup 8.1, data conversion of a large MSDP pool suffers performance
4, 3 issues.

3935554 The NetBackup Policy Execution Manager (nbpem) consumes high CPU loops, and fails
with status 196 in certain time zones if a calendar-based backup schedule is due on a day
on which daylight savings time moves the time forward from midnight to 1:00 AM.
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Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Table 2-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3935894 No logical volumes in a Logical Volume Manager group are resolved for individual file mapping
if any of the volumes have names consisting only of numeric characters.

3936647 This EEB adds support for vMotion for IRed virtual machines with single vsan datastores.

3937284 The NetBackup Websocket Notification Service does not send notifications on certain dates
near the beginning and end of the year.

3938084 After an upgrade to NetBackup 8.0 or 8.1, duplication of Exchange GRT backups from disk
to tape take a long time to complete (several hours).

3938547 An incomplete OpsCenter job alert is missing its status and job schedule details. This EEB
adds these attributes to the job alert details of incomplete OpsCenter job alerts.

3939266 Active Directory restores with Granular Restore Technology enabled fail consistently with a
JET_ERR on Windows 2016.

Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

This topic contains a list of some of the known issues that were fixed and included
in the NetBackup 8.1.1 release.
Etrack Incident: 3909261
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3897579
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3897578
■ Description:
The NetBackup consistency check repair utility (NBCCR) failed with an "Invalid
user ID or password" message if the user failed to use the -emmpwd parameter
when it was needed.
Etrack Incident: 3918986
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3918878
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3918877
■ Description:
Updating a catalog backup policy failed with status 160 ("authentication failed").
Etrack Incident: 3921133
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
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Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

■ Description:
An upgrade to NetBackup 8.0 appears to complete successfully, but deployment
of the NetBackup Security Certificate fails with exit status 5969 ("Response from
the NetBackup Web Management Console service could not be parsed.")
Etrack Incident: 3921138
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The Web Services did not start after an upgrade to NetBackup 8.0 because
"NBDB.db" was not at the top of the databases.conf file.
Etrack Incident: 3921311
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3920096
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3920095
■ Description:
If a customer added a cloud instance whose name included a forward slash
character (/), the customer could not delete that cloud instance.
Etrack Incident: 3923331
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3919677
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3919676
■ Description:
A Bare Metal Restore client failed to boot up after a restore with error 1962 ("No
operating system found").
Etrack Incident: 3926280
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3916507
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3916506
■ Description:
An image import failed with status 229 ("events out of sequence - image
inconsistency").
Etrack Incident: 3927079
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3922336
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3922335
■ Description:
The "current kilobytes written" field displayed an inaccurate value after an
SLP-driven optimized deduplication completed.
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Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

Etrack Incident: 3927631

■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3926790
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3926789
■ Description:
A large number of clients ran the query C_BPRD_GET_LOG_DAYS at midnight,
resulting in an unintentional DDoS attack.
Etrack Incident: 3930137
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The nbcertconfig command regenerated a pre-existing certificate instead of
respecting it.
Etrack Incident: 3930372
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The lists of media servers and storage units in the Storage Servers and Catalog
nodes could not be sorted. Attempting to use the sorting feature sorted the list
for a moment, but it immediately reordered itself.
Etrack Incident: 3930566
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3930557
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3930556
■ Description:
When a user deleted a job in the activity monitor, NetBackup instead deleted a
different job on a different remote console.
Etrack Incident: 3931103
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3931071
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3931070
■ Description:
A vxpbx_exchanged startup script failed to look at Solaris 11 zones.
Etrack Incident: 3931375
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
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■ Description:
When users attempted to remotely log into the master server using the Java
console, the console created half-open connections to PBX.
Etrack Incident: 3931384
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The Java GUI logic to set up trust led to several problems. The hostname in the
issuer field might not have matched the current master server name, and
connections to a media server or client may fail.
Etrack Incident: 3931387
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The "nbcertconfig" command did not provide an option to accept the user's web
service password when executed manually on Windows. The only way to provide
it was to set it in an ENV variable, which was insecure.
Etrack Incident: 3931720
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
This etrack disabled the NetBackup MySQL option button in the NetBackup
installer.
Etrack Incident: 3931872
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3930152
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3930151
■ Description:
NetBackup Access Control tasks were slow for users who had remote home
directories.
Etrack Incident: 3932154
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3930958
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3930957
■ Description:
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Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.1

When attempting to start the NetBackup Web Management Console (NBWMC)

via the command line, NBWMC was unable to deploy a certificate and returned
the error ".Ambiguous output redirect".
Etrack Incident: 3932416
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3931822
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3931821
■ Description:
NetBackup job completion emails no longer contain an empty attachment or
multi- part Part 2.
Etrack Incident: 3933207
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3932783
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3932782
■ Description:
A VMware backup failed with error 13 ("file read failed") after upgrading to
NetBackup 8.0.
Etrack Incident: 3934254
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3934253
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3934252
■ Description:
When attempting to back up a Distributed File System Replication system with
a DFSR policy and a non-DFSR policy which included the System State directive
and multiple streams, Windows Open File Backup snapshot failed and backups
ended with status 1 ("The requested operation was partially successful").
Etrack Incident: 3935016
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
Multiple client installs using a regular token produced two host database entries
for the same client.
Etrack Incident: 3935642
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The nbcertcmd command incorrectly reads the bp.conf file for the master server.
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Etrack Incident: 3936851

■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
Redirected appliance restores that were targeted to alternate locations
intermittently failed and produced core dumps.
Etrack Incident: 3937422
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
Customers were not able to manually initiate or disable certificate auto-renewals.
Etrack Incident: 3937506
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
Customers were not able to manually initiate or disable certificate auto-renewals.
Etrack Incident: 3937539
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3910460
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910459
■ Description:
The granular restore (GRT) catalog extension failed with a "client hostname
could not be found" error during duplication of an IP-less distributed access
group, because live browse was unable to find an Exchange node.
Etrack Incident: 3937705
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The Jobs API produced inconsistent responses if no entities existed.
Etrack Incident: 3937706
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
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If no entities existed, the Images API produced inconsistent responses which

did not conform to the API specification.
Etrack Incident: 3938280
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3908100
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3908098
■ Description:
A full high-availability restore, targeted to its original location, failed with status
2821 ("Hyper-V policy restore error") on a Japanese Windows Hyper-V cluster.
Etrack Incident: 3938356
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
If the Jobs API handled incorrect pagination values, its output differed from the
output of the Image API.
Etrack Incident: 3939058
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
This Etrack added an "Overview/Getting started" section to the NetBackup API
documentation.
Etrack Incident: 3939243
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3933387
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3933385
■ Description:
The NetBackup Client Service (nbcs) crashed when attempting to collect custom
attributes from a standalone ESXi host.
 Chapter 3
EEBs and other known
issues resolved in
NetBackup 8.1
This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1

■ Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1

Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1

Table 3-1contains a listing of known issues with NetBackup that were identified,
fixed, and made available to customers in the form of an emergency engineering
binary (EEB). NetBackup 8.1 resolves the issues that were fixed with each of these
EEBs.
More information on the Etracks that are listed in this topic (and any other service
request Etrack) can be found using the Veritas Services and Operations Readiness
Tools (SORT) website.
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup

Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1

Etrack Number EEB Description

3438839 A vault eject operation may fail on Windows 2008 with status code 287. The SID detail log
shows messages indicating that vmchange attempts to execute multiple times, and "vmchange
not responding with volumes and aborting the eject."
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3522488 A vault eject operation may fail with status code 287, even though the move to mailslot is
successful.

3708346 In some circumstances vault log file shows vmchange not responding with volumes and
aborting the eject with status 287 instead of 288, even though the move to mailslot is
successful.

3778617 A vault eject operation may abort with status code 287, even though the move to mail-slot is
successful.

3782915 Duplication of AIR-replicated VMware backup images to media manager fails with status 227
and error "cannot add fragment to imagedatabase, error = no entity was found".

3832239 This EEB adds additional logging information to help investigate an issue with SSL connections
between NBRMMS and SPAD.

3861570 After upgrading to OpsCenter 7.7.1, a log file called java%d.log is created in the /root directory.
The file with the highest %d value is locked by OpsCenter and grows to about 350mb when
OpsCenter is started. This EEB controls the growth of this file.

3861615 Backups of certain virtual machines run very slowly if the virtual machines contain files with
thousands of named streams and file-level mapping is enabled. Disabling file-level mapping
allows the backups of these virtual machines to run quickly.

3867371 An SLP duplication job fails with status 191 ("no images were successfully processed") if the
image's VMware backups contain failed ASC jobs.

3867771 Backup fails for Unix operating system files with the error message "File [X] shrunk by [Y]
bytes, padding with zeros"

3868394 After upgrading to OpsCenter 7.7.1, a log file called java%d.log is created in the /root directory.
The file with the highest %d value is locked by OpsCenter, and grows to about 350mb when
OpsCenter is started. This EEB controls the growth of this file.

3869212 A vault eject operation may abort with status code 287, even though the move to mailslot
was successful. This EEB adds debugging to vltrun to help determine the cause of this
problem.

3869731 When performing a restore on a DB2 server, duplicate databases appear in the Backup and
Restore GUI, and NetBackup hangs if you attempt to expand the instance to view the
instance's table spaces.

3871143 Mapped VMware/Hyper-V backups run very slowly if file-level mapping is enabled and the
virtual machine contains thousands of named streams. Disabling file-level mapping allows
the backups of these virtual machines to run quickly.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3871818 An AIR import job failed with error 191: "No images were successfully processed" due to a
deadlock condition while updating the image details in the NetBackup database.

3873918 After upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, GRT restores fail with status 2804
("MS-SharePoint policy restore error") and the GRE log reports SQLSTATE(07002).

3875341 GRT restores in SharePoint 2013 fail with status 2804 ("MS-SharePoint policy restore error")
and the GRE log reports SQLSTATE(07002).

3877395 The NetBackup Policy Execution Manager stops submitting jobs.

3879480 A backup fails with status 52 ("timed out waiting for database information") because the ACSD
daemon stopped during the backup.

3879872 A snapshot backup fails on Hitachi devices when using the snapshot method
"Hitachi_ShadowImage" and an off-host client.

3880102 Status code 1006 ("Unable to load required module NDMPD.NLM") is not listed in the
OpsCenter database table "Lookup_JobStatusCode."

3880105 After cloning virtual machines and then recovering them in a disaster recovery (DR) testing
environment, OpsCenter reports return their DR names. These names are no longer being
backed up.

3881318 This EEB implements a NetBackup S3 plugin fix to support China Mobile, and a
CloudProvider.xml configuration file change to include China Mobile Cloud Storage
configuration parameters.

3882307 This EEB implements a NetBackup S3 plugin fix to support China Mobile, and a
CloudProvider.xml configuration file change to include China Mobile Cloud configuration
parameters.

3882845 OpsCenter client summary dashboard report does not show all NetBackup clients.

3888576 A vault eject operation may fail with status code 287 (vault eject failed), even though the
move to mail-slot is successful on Windows servers.

3889736 A "Client Not Backed Up" report for a VMware policy type shows media_server name as a
client.

3890278 During a vmdk restore in an AIR target environment, accelerated incremental virtual machine
images are incorrectly treated as non-accelerated.

3890759 This EEB enables keyword support for stream-based Sybase database agent images, with
or without multistreaming.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3891877 This EEB adds support for the Keyword field in the DB2 Agent for NetBackup 7.7.3 for
stream-based backups.

3891879 This EEB adds support for the Keyword field with Sybase stream-based database images.

3893826 After upgrading Linux master and media servers (but not the client) from 7.7.2 to 7.7.3, OIP
backups fail with error 1405 (No images are found) after what appears to be an unhandled
exception to a SQL query.

3893838 This EEB upgrades Apache Tomcat to version 8.0.33 to fix several vulnerabilities

3894418 Backups are not actually accelerated when the policy points to a app_cluster storage unit
with accelerator enabled.

3894656 A vault eject operation may fail with status code 287 (vault eject failed), even though the
move to mail-slot is successful on Windows servers.

3895379 Unable to restore from imported tapes because the restored file size is incorrect.

3895387 An SLP duplication job fails with status 191 ("no images were successfully processed") if the
image's VMware backups contain failed ASC jobs.

3895410 After upgrading to OpsCenter 7.7.3, a log file called java%d.log is created in the /root directory.
The file with the highest %d value is locked by OpsCenter and grows to about 350mb when
OpsCenter is started. This EEB controls the growth of this file.

3895443 After upgrading Linux media and master servers (but not the NetBackup client) from 7.7.2
to 7.7.3, OIP backups fail with status code 1405 (No images are found) due to an unhandled
exception to a SQL query.

3895479 OpsCenter fails to create a Tabular Backup Report with the error messages "Error while
running the schedule report" and "scheduled report execution failed for report".

3895679 OpsCenter custom reports display incorrect client names. Some unique clients display the
same client ID, the entityalias entries for some clients show entries for other clients.

3895996 Unable to restore from imported tapes because the restored file size is incorrect.

3896157 Backups of SAP/Sybase ASE v16 environments on AIX fail because the NetBackup 32-bit
library is incompatible with the SAP/Sybase 64-bit binaries. This EEB adds a 64-bit library
which is compatible with the SAP/Sybase binaries.

3896477 An OpsCenter 7.7.3 stored procedure fails with an unknown exception.

3896635 A Hyper-V intelligent policy fails with status 200 ("scheduler found no backups due to run")
if one or more nodes on the Hyper-V cluster is down.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3897224 A "Clients Not Backed Up" report for a VMware policy type shows media_server names as
clients. This can happen for multiple hosts in the same report.

3897240 OpsCenter reports incorrectly show some virtual client host names as fully-qualified domain
names.

3897244 The NetBackup Policy Execution Manager stops submitting jobs.

3897274 After running an nbccr command composed of many ChangeVolAssign repairs, a few fail
because the VolDB and ImageMedia assign times differ.

3897428 If a database on your system is configured with a database alias, the left pane of the Backup
and Restore GUI may show a duplicate entry for that alias and the source database.

3897573 After an upgrade from NetBackup 7.7.1 to 7.7.2, any server which has more than one physical
network interface will not honor the PREFERRED_NETWORK setting. The pbx_exchange
process produces a core dump intermittently while writing logs.

3897623 After an upgrade from NetBackup 7.7.1 to 7.7.2, any server which has more than one physical
network interface will not honor the PREFERRED_NETWORK setting. The pbx_exchange
process produces a core dump intermittently while writing logs.

3897726 Backups of certain virtual machines run very slowly if the virtual machines contain files with
thousands of named streams and file-level mapping is enabled. Disabling file-level mapping
allows the backups of these virtual machines to run quickly.

3897952 Some AIR-replicated import jobs fail with error 191: "No images were successfully processed"
due to a deadlock condition while updating the image details in the NetBackup database.

3898185 Single files are listed multiple times in the "Restore Marked Files" screen if multiple images
are selected in "Backup history" on the Backup and Recovery GUI.

3898480 Some reports, such as those with the "Job Size" report template, do not complete before
OpsCenter times out if they filter for more than one server or include more than one month
in their time frame.

3898586 The Problem Report in NetBackup is filled with messages indicating that a volume/storage
server is UP, but contains no DOWN messages.

3898713 Copilot backup failures occur if backups fail and the umask values have been changed from
the default value set in the Oracle client.

3898959 Duplications do not handle network errors correctly, causing subsequent retries to fail. The
bpdm process hangs and consumes 100% of one CPU core. All subsequent attempts to
duplicate the same image fail until the hung bpdm is killed manually.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3899040 When running a Hyper-V backup using a System Center Virtual Machine Manager query,
the query detects multiple virtual machines (VMs) with the same ID, which causes primary
VMs to be marked as not to be backed up.

3899391 The NetBackup Enterprise Media Manager (nbemm) process crashes and fails over to a
passive node after a core dump, but low-verbosity logging does not indicate why the core
dump was initiated.

3899722 The Java console hangs on the "Login in progress..." message after credentials are entered,
but no errors are reported.

3900035 An upgrade of a clustered Windows master server fails because Microsoft Cluster API calls
do not find the device name for the shared disk resource.

3900329 A specific SQL query produces from 10 to 40 seconds of slow performance and high CPU
usage.

3900373 The Netbackup Deduplication Engine will not run on HP-UX filesystems larger than 16TB.

3901023 After expanding a 32-bit filesystem, the messaging service flags the file system as corrupted.

3901099 Running the "nbhba -l" command after enabling nbhba mode causes the media server to
reboot.

3901148 Multiplexing backups of an Oracle system fail when two different clients are different Oracle
users, vnetd is given an incorrect user ID.

3901354 OpsCenter reports incorrectly show some virtual client host names as fully-qualified domain
names.

3901719 An OpsCenter Risk Analysis report shows that clients are at risk, even if they have been
backed up and should not be present in the report.

3901805 The bpverify command fails with the error message "database contains conflicting or erroneous
entries".

3901822 Some jobs appear in the Jobs Monitor with a state of "unknown" and "no status".

3902511 NetBackup 7.7.3 fails to obtain the database list due to a collation conflict, but NetBackup
7.6.1.2 succeeds.

3902559 Deleting one node of a clustered master server returns status code 196 ("EMM database
error").

3903041 A client-initiated restore may fail and generate a core dump if the requested file is not found
in the data range specified.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3903072 Instant Recovery fails with error code 5 if the virtual machines were backed up using a
Windows media server and only contain empty VMDKs.

3903204, version 4, 3, This Bundle Contains fixes for Accelerator backup failures that result in status 1 ("The
2, 1 requested operation was partially successful"), 13 ("file read failed"), and 84 ("media write
error").

3903267 The NBdiscovery service crashes periodically. nbdisco.exe crashes at startup, whether a
manual startup or as part of a NetBackup failover from one node to another.

3903360 The "Enable vCloud director integration" checkbox is disabled if a vCloud policy has previously
been opened in the Java GUI.

3903449 The "Clients Not Backed Up" report incorrectly shows client backup policies that ran
successfully.

3903769 A bare metal restore or alternative client restore drops ownership of files or directories owned
by regular users if the user_id is above 2097151 and fits into an 8-character octal number.

3903831 A report with the "all failed backups" template does not display failed backups for multi-stream
FS backups.

3903935 A Hyper-V Intelligent Policy excludes replicated virtual machines because it detects that they
are duplicates.

3903951, version 3, 2, This EEB allows NetBackup 7.7.3 to integrate with Velocity R7. The changes in this EEB
1 allow NetBackup to write Oracle Copilot backups to a Velocity share, and enables Velocity
to provision a copy from that database.

3903952, version 3, 2, This EEB allows NetBackup 8.0 to integrate with Velocity R7/R8. The changes in this EEB
1 allow NetBackup to write Oracle Copilot backups to a Velocity share, and enables Velocity
to provision a copy from that database.

3903954 The NetBackup GUI hangs after upgrading to 7.7.3.

3903957 After upgrading to NetBackup 7.7.3, clients with names that include "_AH" (without quotes)
might fail with Status 83 "Operation not supported" when backing up to Media Server
Deduplication Pool (MSDP).

3904079 Too many SLP jobs are active. The number of active SLP jobs exceeds the number of tape
drives.

3904186 Old clients show up in the client summary dashboard report after upgrading to 7.6.1.2.

3904271 Optimized Duplications fail with error 150 ("termination requested by administrator").
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3904720 If a backup image with missing fragments is included in an import operation with other images,
and is not the first one to be imported, the import operation will succeed. Attempting to import
an image with missing fragments should fail with status 191.

3904730, version 3, 2, This server EEB adds support for backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines that have
1 non-ASCII characters in their display names, or which reside in folders or datastores which
have non-ASCII characters in their names.

3904850 Restores of Enterprise Vault FSA placeholders of files from a VMware backup generates
files with garbage contents.

3905018 An Index From Snapshot for RD-VMware job fails with status 103 ("error occurred during
initialization, check configuration file").

3905065 A Hyper-V Intelligent Policy will fail with status 200 ("scheduler found no backups due to run")
when one or more nodes are down.

3905073, version 3, 2, This client EEB adds support for backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines that have
1 non-ASCII characters in their display names, or which reside in folders or datastores which
have non-ASCII characters in their names.

3905074 This EEB adds support for backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines that have non-
ASCII characters in their display names, or which reside in folders or datastores which have
non-ASCII characters in their names.

3905346 This EEB implements the ability to create an OpenStack Swift storage server with Identity
v3 credentials, and provides support for FUJITSU Cloud Service K5 provider for Identity v3.

3905362 The BAR GUI fails to browse some folders of NDMP backups with the error message "Unable
to obtain list of files" or "Database system error". The directory may be returned empty.

3905545 An incremental backup does not include some files. The archive bits are reset but the files
are not backed up.

3905550 The bpbkar process is terminated with an access violation while performing a GRT backup
of SharePoint objects.

3905939 When verifying images using bpverify, the bpverify operation may fail intermittently with the
error message "database contains conflicting or erroneous entries".

3906170 During a Browse/Restore of a Granular (GRT) Database backup, if the vmdk path is a
multifolder hierarchy, datastore and folder names are not extracted correctly and the browse
operation fails with the message "ERROR: system database error".

3906200 Multiplexing backups of an Oracle system fail when two different clients are different Oracle
users, vnetd is given an incorrect user ID.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3906238 The Activity Monitor shows a Vxss authentication error when you are logged into the Java
GUI as an EAM user who has administrative privileges on a clustered master server.

3906313 A VIP policy cannot be saved after updating it to contain vApp information and a vCD query.
The save process does not complete.

3906441, version 2, 1 This EEB adds a script which allows a restore to produce on-demand duplication of remote
images to a production location from which the restore can run.

3906463 A bare metal restore from SRT media fails if the client that is used for the master has multiple
NICs, and ICMP is disabled for communication.

3906483 A remote NDMP tape import fails with status code 191 ("no images were successfully
processed") for some images, even if they reside on the same tape.

3906605 A multistream DB2 restore fails with the error "Unexpected End of File of Backup Image" if
the original backup streams did not start within 24 hours.

3906624 If a database is backed up during an Exchange backup using multiple streams, the wrong
database may be backed up when the job is rescheduled. The second backup may finish
with status 0, implying that all the databases were backed

3906682 The Preview Media function in Backup and Restore (BAR) interface gives error 'Null for the
fileData arg' when images from two policies are selected at the same time in the GUI. This
error does not generate logs, and appears for both disk and tape images.

3906692, version 1 Under considerable load, NetBackup Enterprise Media Manager (nbemm) daemon crashes
and produces a core dump.

3906715 This EEB fixes OpenSSL security vulnerability CVE-2016-2107 in NetBackup 7.7.3.

3906984 A backup of a Hitachi VSP G1000 array using the snapshot method "Hitachi_ShadowImage"
fails with a snapshot creation error.

3907069 A VMware backup initiated from OpsCenter fails with status 239 ("the specified client does
not exist in the specified policy") if the client name (display name) includes a capital letter.

3907124 An NDMP restore of an NDMP drive that has been disabled never finishes and does not
produce an exit status code, even though the job appears to be active in the Activity Monitor.

3907213 An OpsCenter stored procedure fails with the error "An unknown exception has occurred"
due to a special character in the column name.

3907237 This server EEB adds support for backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines that have
non- ASCII characters in their display names, or which reside in folders or datastores which
have non-ASCII characters in their names.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3907238 This client EEB adds support for backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines that have
non- ASCII characters in their display names, or which reside in folders or datastores which
have non-ASCII characters in their names.

3907239 This EEB adds support for backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines that have non-
ASCII characters in their display names, or which reside in folders or datastores which have
non-ASCII characters in their names.

3907240 SUSE Linus Enterprise Server 11 SP4 does not appear in the list of compatible operating
systems for the NetBackup SAN Client server.

3907273 An off-host SMB of a Hitachi_ShadowImage fails with error 4213 ("Snapshot import failed").
The aixlvmfi log shows that the command "recreatevg" failed on the off-host.

3907334 BMR client configuration fails to run a batch file to unmap NIC which includes Japanese
attribute.

3907361 This EEB allows virtual clients to get their client names from the "DNS Name" identified in
vCenter.

3907370 An incremental accelerated backup finishes with status 1 ("The requested operation was
partly successful") because it attempts to back up client locations which do not exist.

3907676 Multiple telemetry processes appear in system monitor and consume excessive system
resources.

3907717 An NDMP backup fails with status 25 if the backup includes multiple file paths which are
identical but which use different "set FILES" directives.

3907732 The bpcd process fails to start on the first try, even if the second try is successful.

3907823 A SharePoint 2016 GRT restore fails with status code 2804: "An error caused the restore of
the SharePoint data to fail." The ncfgre log shows the error "Unable to identify the SharePoint
entity for the target."

3907827 The NetBackup monitor script incorrectly detects that the bprd process is down, which triggers
a failover.

3907869 After upgrading to 8.0, a multi-stream backup fails with status 71 ("none of the files in the file
list exist") if stat fails for any of the paths.

3907949 A manual backup of SQL intelligent policies from OpsCenter fails with error 239 ("the specified
client does not exist in the specified policy"). The backup succeeds if performed from
NetBackup, or if the SWL backup was configured with legacy methods.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3908039, version 1 A VIP policy update cannot be saved in advanced mode if the query contains both vApp
information and a vCD query. Also, after toggling away from a policy and double-clicking
"Clients", the vCloud policy check box is not selected.

3908096 After an upgrade from NetBackup 7.7.3 to NetBackup 8.0, scheduled and manual backup
jobs do not start.

3908102 This EEB implements the ability to create an OpenStack Swift storage server with Identity
v3 credentials, and provides support for FUJITSU Cloud Service K5 provider for Identity v3.

3908159 NDMP accelerator-enabled backups fail with status 114.

3908360 A large number of VMware backups fail with error 13 ("file read failed") due to fi_cntl files
growing too large and causing timeouts.

3908424 Backups of 64-bit SAP/Sybase ASE v16 environments on AIX fail because the NetBackup
32-bit library is incompatible with the SAP/Sybase 64-bit binaries. This EEB adds a 64-bit
library which is compatible with the SAP/Sybase binaries.

3908427 Backups of 64-bit SAP/Sybase ASE v16 environments on AIX fail because the NetBackup
32-bit library is incompatible with the SAP/Sybase 64-bit binaries. This EEB adds a 64-bit
library which is compatible with the SAP/Sybase binaries.

3908854 A specific SQL query produces from 10 to 40 seconds of slow performance and high CPU
usage.

3908984 Large NDMP restore jobs fail with buffer errors. The ndmpagent log will show "leftover full
buffers" errors.

3909024 When attempting to restore a compressed file on a Unix client, the restored file is corrupted
and smaller than the backup file.

3909148 An NDMP restore with many fragments (approximately over 5000) will suffer performance
degradation during the restore process.

3909350 A Hyper-V Client single file restore fails with status 2821 ("Hyper-V policy restore error").

3909359 After an SLP-managed duplication to tape job fails with status 84 ("media write error"),
subsequent attempts to use the same tape also fail with status 86 ("media position error").

3909483 The bpjobd process consumes an excessive amount of memory. Job updates to the jobd
table do not succeed because a RUS client returned invalid characters.

3909490 During a virtual machine discovery job, if login to any vCenter fails, the discovery job fails
and no backup jobs are generated.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3909580 A bare metal restore or alternative client restore drops ownership of files or directories owned
by regular users if the user_id is above 2097151 and fits into an 8-character octal number.

3909594 The bpverify command fails with the error message "database contains conflicting or erroneous
entries".

3909769 An alternate client restore of an replicated OpenVMS client backup uses the wrong diskpool.

3909856 Clients with names that include "_AH" (without quotes) might fail with Status 83 ("Operation
not supported") when backing up to Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP).

3909865 When running a restore, many jobs are provisioned and some of the restore requests are
answered by bprd, but no jobs are queued up and the restore fails.

3909919 Backups with accelerator enabled are not actually accelerated when the policy points to an
app_cluster storage unit.

3910073 After upgrading from NetBackup 7.7.3 to 8.0, OpsCenter data collection fails with multiple
foreign key errors.

3910118 An Exchange GRT backup fails with error 13 (file read failed) and a bpfis fatal exception.

3910233 Backups of 64-bit SAP/Sybase ASE v16 environments on Solaris fail because the NetBackup
32-bit library is incompatible with the SAP/Sybase 64-bit binaries. This EEB adds a 64-bit
library which is compatible with the SAP/Sybase binaries.

3910423 The NetBackup Backup and Archive process (bpbkarv) consumes a large amount of memory
in NetBackup 8.0, due to a suspected memory leak issue.

3910598 A bare metal restore or alternative client restore drops ownership of files or directories owned
by regular users if the user_id is greater than 2097151 and fits into an 8-character octal
number.

3910833 After AIR replication of an image to a media server, an attempt to restore the image fails if it
used the replication server instead of the backup media server.

3910851 An installation of NetBackup 8.0 on a Windows 2016 Hyper-V virtual machine with Secure
Boot enabled failed with the error "A digitally signed driver is required. Windows blocked the
installation of a digitally unsigned driver."

3910861 Incremental changes for bprd (internal use only)

3910880 If a SQL Server database name is a single character, NetBackup catalogs it between slash
(/) characters. For example, database "A" is catalogued as "/A/".

3910903 An incremental backup with no change set skips available media and mounts active media
instead. The NetBackup Tape Manager receives an I/O error while positioning the media.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3910904 A Tabular Backup Report is blank for a particular client if the client ID and entity ID of the
client object and media server object do not match on that client, and if the Client Name filter
is selected on the report.

3910991 When backing up all instances of SQL 2012 or higher, the backup will complete with status
0, even if an instance was skipped due to a permission error.

3911042 A compressed restore on a Unix system can be restored successfully, but may be corrupted.

3911251 The "All Failed Backups" report does not display both Snapshot and backup failed jobs.

3911259 The NBDNA utility v2.5 only performs self-tests on UNIX/Linus systems, because a necessary
file was renamed in NetBackup versions 7.7.2 and later.

3911271 A full NDMP accelerator backup fails with status code 41 ("network connection timed out")
during a write to catalog operation.

3911315 The bpcd process fails with error 145: "daemon is already running".

3911374 Bundle of bprd changes

3911451 This EEB includes several nbdeployutil enhancements, including accurate reporting of data
overlaps in FileSystem and SQL agent backup policies, incremental gathering and reporting
of capacity usage information, and a job to trigger nbdeployutil daily.

3911452 This EEB includes several nbdeployutil enhancements, including accurate reporting of data
overlaps in FileSystem and SQL agent backup policies, incremental gathering and reporting
of capacity usage information, and a job to trigger nbdeployutil daily.

3911646 An NDMP backup succeeds but is not restorable because the backup is missing directory
information. This EEB will cause the backup job to fail with status 42 if this information is
missing.

3911697 Japanese messages in Activity Monitor are not displayed correctly in 8.0. Characters with
SJIS encoding appear as garbage characters in the Job Details tab.

3911750 After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, a VMware backup which succeeded before the upgrade
appears to complete successfully with status 0, but does not restore individual files and
folders.

3912274 An NDMP backup fails with status code 25 ("cannot connect on socket") if the backup includes
multiple file paths which are identical but which use different "set FILES" directives.

3912319 A file's modification time is reset to 0 after it is backed up.

3912471, version 3, 2, Bundle of bprd fixes and changes

1
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3912472 Bundle of NetBackup server fixes.

3912564 A backup of a Hitachi VSP G1000 array using the snapshot method "Hitachi_ShadowImage"
fails with a snapshot creation error.

3912573 The EEB adds the DB2_SERVER and DB2_CLIENT variables to the DB2 OPTIONS command
line.

3912576 After upgrading a master server from 7.7.3 to 8.0, any accelerator-enabled backup jobs for
which a previous backup copy exists produce a accl_send_image_align_guide warning and
are delayed by 5 minutes.

3912678 Bundle of NetBackup client fixes.

3912679, version 6 Bundle of NetBackup client fixes and changes for bpnbat and bpcd.

3912680 Bundle of NetBackup client fixes.

3912916 The table nb_JobDbInstanceArchive does not show job detials for SQL intelligent policies,
but shows traditional SQL backups which use batch files.

3913017 When parsing NetBackup events posted to vCenter in a non-English system locale, the
backup events graph may contain no visible event data.

3913038 A GRT browse or restore operation fails with the message "ERROR: system database error"
if the vmdk path is a multifolder hierarchy.

3913179, version 3, 2, Bundle of bprd fixes and changes

1

3913192 Snapshot deletion fails with status 4204 ("incompatible client found"), but the snapshot job
is still marked as successful instead of a partial success.

3913341 When selecting a SQL differential database image for backup using the NetBackup SQL
client, the "create move template" option is not available in the Restore Options - Scripting
dropdown menu.

3913548 This EEB upgrades the Apache struts2 libraries to resolve Apache vulnerability
CVE-2017-5638.

3913549 This EEB fixes security vulnerability CVE-2017-5638 in NetBackup 7.7.3.

3913550 This EEB fixes OpsCenter security vulnerability CVE-2017-5638 in NetBackup 8.0.

3913591 Unable to generate a single file recovery map for a Unix virtual machine configured for logical
volume management and softlinks for some directories.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3913674 When a Windows backup is imported on a media server which is running an operating system
that is big endian (such as Solaris Sparc), phase 1 and 2 of the import are successful but the
backup cannot be browsed.

3913796 An incremental backup does not include certain files. The archive bits were reset, but the
files were not backed up.

3913859 Some client fully-qualified domain names are reported incorrectly in OpsCenter.

3913881 The NetBackup GUI freezes after an upgrade.

3914209 The NBDNA utility v2.5 only performs self-tests on UNIX/Linus systems, because a necessary
file was renamed in NetBackup versions 7.7.2 and later.

3914210 A file's modification time is reset to 0 after it is backed up.

3914428 Inferior performance of nbtar restores in NetBackup 7.7.3 compared to the restore performance
of previous tar files in NetBackup 7.7.1.

3914512 A VMware backup with mapping and optimizations enabled succeeds, but after the operation
the VMDK is locked and snapshot removal fails. After the lock expires, the snapshot can be
manually removed.

3914520 When Replication Director is used to protect VMware, index jobs using the SLP "Index from
Replica" sometimes fail with status 144 ("invalid command usage").

3914602 After upgrading from NetBackup 7.6.1.2 to 8.0, multiple Sharepoint content databases
experience GRT failures.

3914844 After an upgrade to NetBackup 8.0, a failover on a Sun Cluster causes the nbwebservice
process to shut down.

3914944 If an Oracle restore brings back a control file which has information about a backup that is
no longer on the share or in the RMAN catalog, the next Oracle backup will fail.

3915146 After upgrading to NetBackup 7.7.3, when selecting multiple files to restore, only a subset of
files are restored with no signs of errors.

3915424, version 3, 2, bpdbm stops due to 'software has expired', since daemonized bpdbm hits lots of EMFILE
1 failure

3915496 Backups of SQL 2012 and later complete with status 0 even if all instances are not backed
up successfully.

3915497 Backups of SQL 2012 and later complete with status 0 even if all instances are not backed
up successfully.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3915645 An Exchange 2007 GRT restore to the same location fails due to a MAPI logon failure.

3915971 This EEB adds the capability to generate new VMDK disk UUIDs during the instant recovery
of VMware virtual machines.

3916027 An Exchange GRT backup fails with error 13 ("file read failed") and a bpfis fatal exception.

3916030 A backup fails with status 52 ("timed out waiting for database information") because the ACSD
daemon stopped during the backup.

3916033 A backup fails with status 52 ("timed out waiting for database information") because the ACSD
daemon stopped during the backup.

3916118 The NetBackup Archive process (bparchive) removes files which have been added to a
directory, even if they have not been backed up.

3916147 An SAP/Oracle multi-stream restore of a multi-stream backup succeeds with status 0, but
some files are listed as not restored.

3916403 The SnapshotEvent process runs intermittently and at incorrect times.

3916781 The NetBackup Policy Execution Manager intermittently stops scheduling jobs.

3916825 After an upgrade to NetBackup appliance 3.0, single file restores fail on Windows virtual
machines (VMs). After the upgrade, mapping fails on these VMs, and they contain no dynamic
disks.

3916875 If a client has been added to the Client Attributes, an export of host properties of a master
server fails.

3916893 After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, a traditional licensing report shows capacity as '0'. After
the upgrade, the log shows clients with their short host names, where before the report it
showed them with their fully-qualified domain names.

3916997 A remote NDMP tape import fails with status code 191 ("no images were successfully
processed") for some images, even if they reside on the same tape.

3917066 The preinstall nbcheck process does not check for user membership in the domain local
group.

3917184 After installing the OpsCenter Struts EEB, no AD domain drop-down selections appear when
adding a new user.

3917196 After upgrading Linux master and media servers (but not the client) from 7.7.2 to 7.7.3, OIP
backups fail with error 1405 ("No images are found") after what appears to be an unhandled
exception to a SQL query.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3917353 Attempting to restore a full virtual machine from an IBM Cleversafe S3 cloud object storage
fails with status code 2820 ("NetBackup VMware policy restore error"). Verification operations
on this VM fail with status code 85 ("media read error").

3917467 NetBackup initialization takes longer than it should on Windows systems. Policies with
hundreds or thousands of streams can suffer hours of performance degradation.

3917921 A manual backup of SQL intelligent policies from OpsCenter fails with error 239 ("the specified
client does not exist in the specified policy"). The backup succeeds if performed from
NetBackup, or if the SWL backup was configured with legacy methods.

3918179 If a client has been added to the Client Attributes, an export of host properties of a master
server fails.

3918337 A GRT restore browse fails with status 227 ("no entity was found") for Exchange 2016.

3918386 A multistream backup fails if its backup selection includes a wildcard and any of the folders
selected by that wildcard include special characters in their names.

3918613 NetBackup is unable to use a source port above 1000 for a NetBackup File System Service
(nbfsd) connection.

3918619 The NetBackup Cloud Storage Service Container produces a core dump during backups to
SwiftStack cloud storage.

3918718 Performing a differential backup on an ReFS file system can result in data loss.

3918719 Performing a differential backup on an ReFS file system can result in data loss.

3918720 After a valid OpsCenter "media server unreachable" alert with an "active" status is set to
"cleared", another identical alert set to "active" appears shortly after.

3919046 The NetBackup 7.7.3 PBX service stops intermittently and may generate a core dump.

3919343 When selecting a SQL differential database image for backup using the NetBackup SQL
client, the "create move template" option is not available in the Restore Options - Scripting
dropdown menu.

3919407 If two or more clients have been added to Client Attributes, the exported client names for all
clients except the first are returned as zero.

3919447 The NetBackup database server uses a high amount of CPU if the database contains many
image fragments and media IDs.

3919776 NetBackup / Veritas Cluster Server monitor script incorrectly detects the status of the bprd
process, which triggers a fail over.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3919843 Files from Isilon snapshots cannot be backed up via a CIFS share due to Windows error 19
("Media is write protected").

3919867 OpsCenter reports show incorrect client names after upgrading to NetBackup 8.0 and installing
8.0 plugins to vCenter.

3920114 Files from Isilon snapshots cannot be backed up via a CIFS share due to Windows error 19
("Media is write protected").

3920230 After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, the NetBackup Web Management Console fails to start
with the SQL exception "java.sql.SQLException: JZ0SU:" and produces a core dump.

3920236 Backups of certain virtual machines run very slowly if the virtual machines contain files with
thousands of named streams and file-level mapping is enabled. Disabling file-level mapping
allows the backups of these virtual machines to run quickly.

3920421 The host properties of a master server cannot be exported if one or more targets has been
added to the Preferred Network. A blank dialog box with an OK button appears.

3920601 After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, physical-to-virtual testing fails and tar32.exe produces a
crash dump.

3920722 Backups of Sybase 64bit ASE v16 on Solaris fail because libsybackup.so is incompatible
with 64bit Sybase backup API. Sybase returns the error "Unable to open API library for
device".

3920957 Hyper-V backups of fixed-size VHD appear successful, but do not back up the disks. The
Backup and Restore GUI does not display the volume size for the backed-up volumes.

3921259, version 1 This EEB resolves a binary conflict between two other EEBs which add support for the
Keyword field in Sybase and DB2 backup images.

3921298 Some client fully-qualified domain names are reported incorrectly in OpsCenter.

3921806 An NDMP image is registered due to a successful previous backup, but cannot be restored
or the files are not listed.

3921820, version 1 A VMware single file restore fails with status code 2820 ("NetBackup VMware policy restore
error") if the master server does not have access to the client.

3922051, version 1 This EEB resolves a conflict between two other EEBs which add functionality for the Keyword
field in Sybase and DB2.

3922353 An Accelerator-enabled backup job becomes unresponsive and never writes data. The
process must be ended manually.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3922555 An OpsCenter 7.7.3 stored procedure fails with an unknown exception. The report shows
the message "an unknown exception has occurred".

3922853 Inferior performance of nbtar restores in NetBackup 7.7.3 compared to the restore performance
of previous tar files in NetBackup 7.7.1.

3922936 An Accelerated backup for NDMP fails with error 41 ("network connection timed out").

3923035, version 1 After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, physical-to-virtual testing fails and tar32.exe produces a
crash dump.

3923206 Unable to expand Exchange mailboxes in the restore browser. The browser also shows a
public folder mailbox in all databases, instead of only in the database that hosts it, and
inappropriately displays system mailboxes.

3923348 Inferior performance of nbtar restores in NetBackup 8.0 compared to the restore performance
of tar file restores in prior versions.

3923380 Using the bpexpdate command to extend the retention period of a VMware image which was
created using Replication Director policy fails with "Unable to process request."

3923616 After successfully running multiple concurrent backup jobs to SwiftStack Object Storage,
NetBackup fails to verify all of them. This issue can cause potential data loss.

3923662 If the vCenter login process fails during virtual machine discovery for a VIP query, the discovery
job fails and no backup jobs are generated. This EEB fixes this to no longer be a fatal error,
and allows the job to proceed with for discovered VMs.

3923667 The NetBackup 8.0 monitoring script incorrectly fails to detect that the bprd process is running,
which triggers a failover.

3923968 A System State Restore fails to start when restoring from a Synthetic Full Backup.

3924134 Backup images written to the Disk Staging Storage Unit cannot be duplicated to the final
destination storage if the client name contains an underscore ("_") character followed by a
10-digit number.

3924222, version 1 After expanding a 32-bit Logical Volume Management, the Veritas Federated Mapping Service
skips the filesystem. Also, a virtual machine backup succeeds but the Virtual Machine
Development Kit becomes unresponsive and snapshot removal fails.

3924521 After installing an EEB which installs OpsCenter struts, the "Domain Name" field on the Add
User screen does not show a drop-down menu.

3924964 This EEB fixes several issues with Exchange 2016 CU5. The Exchange interface cannot
expand, restore, or browse any mailboxes, can only expand a public folder mailbox from the
database that hosts it, and cannot restore system mailboxes.
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Table 3-1 Previous EEBs now resolved in NetBackup 8.1 (continued)

Etrack Number EEB Description

3925149 A full restore of a virtual machine does not restore data from a FAT32 drive.

3925162 After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, a multi-stream backup fails with status 71 ("none of the
files in the file list exist") if the stat command fails for any of the paths.

3925321 Exporting host properties of a master server fails if two or more clients have been added to
the Clients Attributes, or if one or more targets have been added to the Preferred Network.

3925598 The Authentication Broker for Amazon C2S does not send its cloud communication through
the appropriate proxy, only its data.

3925839 Phase 2 of an image import where the image is larger than 100 GB fails with status code 50
("client process aborted").

3926366 A SharePoint 2016 GRT restore fails with status code 2804 ("MS-SharePoint policy restore
error") due to inadequate user permissions.

3926633 The Veritas Federated Mapping Service mapping process leaks memory when the incremental
backup schedule is run for a VMware policy.

3926641 After running the "nbftsrv_config -nbhba" command, running "nbhba -l" causes the server to
reboot.

3927093, version 1 The NBCheck preinstall script fails when used to validate user memberships in local domain
accounts, as well as when verifying the domain controller.

3927993 The NetBackup Archive process (bparchive) removes files which have been added to a
directory, even if they have not been backed up.

3928006 Accelerator-enabled NDMP backups fail with either status code 114 ("unimplemented error
code") or 13 ("file read failed"). Backups work again after the track logs are cleared.

3928433 The Authentication Broker for Amazon C2S does not send its cloud communication through
the appropriate proxy, only its data.

3928484, version 1 This EEB bundles several other EEBs together to resolve a conflict between them.

3928959 When restoring an Enterprise Vault placeholder file from a VMware backup image, the size
of the placeholder file on disk is the same as the size of the original file.

3929557 The NetBackup Cloudstore Service Container (process nbcssc) produces a core dump when
writing to cloud storage.

3930039 Unable to generate a single file recovery map for a Unix virtual machine configured for logical
volume management and softlinks for some directories.
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Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1

This topic contains a list of some of the known issues that were fixed and included
in the NetBackup 8.1 release.
Etrack Incident: 3863843
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3863844
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3867093
■ Description:
In the Cost tabular report, values in the Amount column display too many
characters after the decimal point.
Etrack Incident: 3865968
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3865854
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3865853
■ Description:
OpsCenter added a second forward slash ("/") to the destination path, causing
restore jobs to fail with status code 185: "tar did not find all the files to be
restored."
Etrack Incident: 3871112
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3866697
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3866695
■ Description:
Renaming a file restore from OpsCenter to a NAS/NDMP client created files
with additional "~1" (tilde followed by a numeral one) characters in the name.
Etrack Incident: 3872756
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3893571
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3893570
■ Description:
The Java GUI was unable to restore a virtual machine located on CSV to an
SMB 3.0 share, and vice versa. This etrack checked in the GUI code changes.
Etrack Incident: 3879315
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3877831
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3877830
■ Description:
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If the date range of a "NetBackup Disk Pool Size vs. Percentage Full" report
began before daylight savings time and included the current date, the current
date appeared as 0% used.
Etrack Incident: 3882315
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3868088
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3868087
■ Description:
VMware Single File Restore failed on RedHat Linux for folders which had Access
Control Lists set using the setfacl utility. The restore failed with the error "errno
= 22: Invalid argument" due to "chmod 40444 /logs/part3 to reset permissions."
Etrack Incident: 3896609
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3895317
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3895315
■ Description:
When configuring Cloud Storage Server, the data compression checkbox did
not appear on some master servers.
Etrack Incident: 3898487
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3897581
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3897580
■ Description:
"Awaiting resource" messages in the job details of a bpdbjobs report were not
comma-separated.
Etrack Incident: 3898618
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3898219
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3898218
■ Description:
The saved value of a custom retention period changed when the user selected
another retention period and then selected the custom retention period again.
Etrack Incident: 3900186
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3899540
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3899539
■ Description:
After replication, a target master server recorded hundreds of "invalid entry"
warnings in the bperror log.
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Etrack Incident: 3901368

■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3900384
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3900383
■ Description:
Microsoft Exchange DAG resolution does not differentiate between two DAGs
with the same short name, even if their FQDNs differ.
Etrack Incident: 3902042
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
This etrack added parent-inode support to libcatalog for NDMP backups.
Etrack Incident: 3902060
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3901288
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3901287
■ Description:
When running the "Configure Storage Devices" wizard on a clustered master
server, the device scan failed with the error message "Invalid host(88) The host
is not defined in EMM".
Etrack Incident: 3903172
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3806950
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3806948
■ Description:
Sharepoint GRT cataloging process slowed to a crawl on certain List objects
because the physical objects resided outside the SQL Content Database.
Etrack Incident: 3903413
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3903265
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3903264
■ Description:
When attempting to browse backup files in the Policy Backup Selection wizard,
any byte size over 4GB was displayed as a stack overflow.
Etrack Incident: 3903502
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
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■ Description:
The NetBackup GUI did not display the correct server version in connection
error messages. The GUI truncated the second decimal point and third digit (for
example: 7.7 instead of 7.7.3).
Etrack Incident: 3903720
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
When Auditing was disabled, NetBackup would not report some events, which
may have been highly relevant to domain security. Because we do not report
changes to AUDITING in the reports, the customer may have had a false sense
of security.
Etrack Incident: 3904057
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3903495
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3903493
■ Description:
OpsCenter reports did not correctly filter clients for Windows 2012 and Windows
Server 2012 R2. Many clients which should have been displayed were instead
omitted.
Etrack Incident: 3904161
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
After a restart due to system panic, web services were not running due to a PID
conflict.
Etrack Incident: 3904246
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3904195
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3904194
■ Description:
The Activity Monitor did not correctly display the Detailed Status of an active
duplication job when the user attempted to navigate to the active job details
from the Detailed Status screen of the previous job.
Etrack Incident: 3905174
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
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■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

■ Description:
The nbtar process produced a large amount of extraneous logs when verbosity
was set to 0.
Etrack Incident: 3905371
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3903582
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3903581
■ Description:
When attempting to browse the results of a large import job in the NetBackup
GUI, the NetBackup console hangs and opens several dialogue boxes with
"Memory usage ~95-100%" messages.
Etrack Incident: 3905621
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The bpps command fails to report the nbwebsvc process when run by a non-root
user.
Etrack Incident: 3906096
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3905860
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3905859
■ Description:
Setting the schedule frequency too high caused nbpem to stop with an assertion
failure
Etrack Incident: 3906647
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
If MAX_NUM_LOGFILES was set to 0 or 1 in the bp.conf file, this file was
overwritten continuously. This could cause processes to generate core dumps.
Etrack Incident: 3907630
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
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vCenter credentials were always associated with "Any" media server, even when
the credentials were added to a specific server.
Etrack Incident: 3908268
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3908177
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3908176
■ Description:
When trying to add a new node to a High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing
cluster while installing NetBackup 7.1, the following error appeared: "Service
label [label] is already configured into a resource group. Initial NetBackup HA
configuration must be into a resource group that does not already exist. Please
rerun this script, specifying either a preexisting, unassigned service label, or a
not yet configured virtual name which will be configured as an ipaliased service
label by this utility."
Etrack Incident: 3908335
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3907815
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3907814
■ Description:
If a Windows backup host had an asterisk (*) as an entry in the exclude list, full
backups of any virtual machine failed with status 90, and incremental backups
showed status 0 and did not back anything up.
Etrack Incident: 3909849
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3909776
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3909775
■ Description:
In a SIP policy, the "Parallel Backup Operations" parameter is present in both
the "Transaction Log Options" and the "Database Options". If a value was given
for this parameter in "Database Options", the value specified in the "Transaction
Log Options" was ignored.
Etrack Incident: 3910320
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3907798
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3907796
■ Description:
The nbemm process exhibited a memory leak when an invalid server name was
repeatedly provided to the bpmedialist -h command.
Etrack Incident: 3910550
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■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3909489

■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3909488
■ Description:
If the Web Service Account and Group named during installation were not
Domain-based, the pre-install check failed with the error "Critical error found
during pre-install check" was thrown.
Etrack Incident: 3910709
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
The volume master daemon did not authenticate any incoming connections or
command requests by default. The daemon only autheticated based on the
server list if AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED was set in vm.conf.
Etrack Incident: 3910736
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3910475
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910474
■ Description:
The "Configure Cloud Storage Server" wizard failed with the error message
"Login credentials verification failed for server xxxx."
Etrack Incident: 3912527
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3912466
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3912465
■ Description:
The VIP query editor did not display queries correctly if any filters in the query
contained the words "and" or "or".
Etrack Incident: 3913171
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3913060
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3913059
■ Description:
A VIP query truncated virtual machine network names if they ended with any
characters in parentheses, and did not report these VMs in query results.
Etrack Incident: 3913566
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
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■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

■ Description:
VMware backups did not report virtual machine parameters in snapshot jobs.
Etrack Incident: 3914158
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3910002
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910001
■ Description:
The "VirtiFile.Sys" minifilter setting did not use the default altitude value which
Microsoft recommended (280700).
Etrack Incident: 3914272
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3914062
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3914060
■ Description:
After backing up a VM, powering it off, restoring it with the original settings, and
running the backup again, the original VM is backed up instead of the new one,
even though the original VM is powered off.
Etrack Incident: 3916420
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
vxms logs were not being cleaned up because they did not conform to the
filename patterns used to determine what files were logs.
Etrack Incident: 3916924
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
This etrack implemented a new web service which creates audit records if
certificate validation fails. For more information, see NBU-40376.
Etrack Incident: 3916946
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3916928
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3916927
■ Description:
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When the user attempted to change the NetBackup time zone through the
"Adjust Application Timezone" option in NetBackup interface, the Activity Monitor
did not reflect the change.
Etrack Incident: 3917170
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3917051
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3917049
■ Description:
After an upgrade to NetBackup 8.0, some NetBackup Web Management Console
and Tomcat services prevented the creation of host ID-based certificates to
allow access to the NetBackup user interface.
Etrack Incident: 3917173
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
This etrack implemented several TPIP upgrades for OpsCenter. It upgraded
iTect from version 5.2.1 to 5.5.11, mail from 1.4.4 to 1.4.7, cloning from 1.7.4
to 1.9.3, and objensis from 1.2 to 2.5.1.
Etrack Incident: 3917715
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3917456
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3917455
■ Description:
The Backup Archive and Restore Preview button failed with the error "No media
required for restore. Images are on a disk" if the client name contained a space
character.
Etrack Incident: 3919022
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3918990
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3918988
■ Description:
The Backup and Archive Manager crashed when running a backup with Active
Directory Application Mode enabled.
Etrack Incident: 3919274
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
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After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container

tried to use an old certificate whose hostname was no longer present in the
environment.
Etrack Incident: 3919901
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3919894
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3919892
■ Description:
A Bare Metal Restore failed with the error "Could not create first boot script".
Etrack Incident: 3920217
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3912307
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3912306
■ Description:
During a manual failover of a clustered master server, the NetBackup EMM
daemon froze.
Etrack Incident: 3920413
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
This etrack created a mailing infrastructure to send email notifications from SLP.
Etrack Incident: 3922739
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3922694
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3922691
■ Description:
This etrack fixes security vulnerabilities on server ports 13783 and 5637.
Etrack Incident: 3922818
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3919970
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3919969
■ Description:
After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, the -getCACertificate operation fails with
status code 5969 ("Response from the NetBackup Web Management Console
service could not be parsed")
Etrack Incident: 3923661
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
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■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A

■ Description:
After upgrading to NetBackup 8.0, certificate deployment failed with status code
8503 ("Unknown error returned by CURL").
Etrack Incident: 3923907
■ Associated Primary Etrack: N/A
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): N/A
■ Description:
This etrack stamps .war files with static strings to identify the version of its EEB.
Etrack Incident: 3926684
■ Associated Primary Etrack: 3910460
■ Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910459
■ Description:
User was unable to set the granular proxy server for a Database Availability
Group in the NetBackup GUI.
 Appendix A
About SORT for
NetBackup Users
This appendix includes the following topics:

■ About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools

■ Recommended SORT procedures for new installations

■ Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades

About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness

Tools
Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a robust set of
standalone and web-based tools that support Veritas enterprise products. For
NetBackup, SORT provides the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host
configurations across UNIX/Linux or Windows environments. This data is invaluable
when you want to assess if your systems are ready for an initial NetBackup
installation or for an upgrade.
Access SORT from the following webpage:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
Once you get to the SORT page, more information is available as follows:
■ Installation and Upgrade Checklist
Use this tool to create a checklist to see if your system is ready for a NetBackup
installation or an upgrade. This report contains all the software and the hardware
compatibility information specific to the information provided. The report also
includes product installation or upgrade instructions, as well as links to other
references.
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■ Hot fix and EEB Release Auditor

Use this tool to find out whether a release that you plan to install contains the
hot fixes that you need.
■ Custom Reports
Use this tool to get recommendations for your system and Veritas enterprise
products.
■ NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans
Use this tool to get information about what items Veritas intends to replace with
newer and improved functionality. The tool also provides insight about what
items Veritas intends to discontinue without replacement. Some of these items
include certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration,
Veritas product integration, applications, databases, and the OS platforms.
Help for the SORT tools is available. Click Help in the upper right corner of the
SORT home page. You have the option to:
■ Page through the contents of the help similar to a book
■ Look for topics in the index
■ Search the help with the search option

Recommended SORT procedures for new

installations
Veritas recommends new NetBackup users perform the three procedures that are
listed for an initial introduction to SORT. The tool has many other features and
functions, but these serve as a good introduction to SORT. In addition, the
procedures provide a helpful base of knowledge for other SORT functionality.

Table A-1
Procedure Details

Create a Veritas Account on the SORT See “To create a Veritas Account on the
webpage SORT page” on page 55.

Create generic installation reports See “To create a generic installation checklist”
on page 55.

Create system-specific installation reports See “To create a system-specific installation

report for Windows” on page 56.

See “To create a system-specific installation

report for UNIX or Linux” on page 57.
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To create a Veritas Account on the SORT page

1 In your web browser, navigate to:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
2 In the upper right corner, click Login, then click Register now.
3 Enter the requested login and contact information:

Email address Enter and verify your email address

Password Enter and verify your password

First name Enter your first name

Last name Enter your last name

Company name Enter your company name

Country Enter your country

Preferred language Select your preferred language

CAPTCHA text Enter the displayed CAPTCHA text. If necessary, refresh the
image.

4 Click Submit.
5 When you receive your login information, you can log into SORT and begin
uploading your customized information.
To create a generic installation checklist
1 In your web browser, navigate to:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
2 Find and select the Installation and Upgrade Checklist widget.
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3 Specify the requested information

Product Select the appropriate product from the drop-down menu.

For NetBackup select NetBackup Enterprise Server or
NetBackup Server.

Product version you Select the correct version of NetBackup. The most current
are installing or version is always shown at the top of the list.
upgraded to

Platform Select the operating system that corresponds to the checklist

you want generated.

Processor Select the correct processor type for your checklist.

Product version you For new installations, do not make any selections. For
are upgrading from upgrades, you can select the currently installed version of
(optional) NetBackup.

4 Click Generate Checklist.

5 A checklist corresponding to your choices is created. You can modify your
selections from this screen, and click Generate Checklist to create a new
checklist.
You can save the resulting information as a PDF. Numerous options are
available for NetBackup and many of them are covered in the generated
checklist. Please spend time reviewing each section to determine if it applies
to your environment.
To create a system-specific installation report for Windows
1 Go to the SORT website:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
2 In the Installation and Upgrade section, select Installation and Upgrade
custom reports by SORT data collectors.
3 Select the Data Collectors tab
4 Select the radio button for Graphical user interface and download the correct
data collector for your platform.
The data collector is OS-specific. To collect information about Windows
computers, you need the Windows data collector. To collect information about
UNIX computers, you need the UNIX data collector.
5 Launch the data collector after it finishes downloading.
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6 On the Welcome screen, select NetBackup from the product family section
and click Next.
7 On the System Selection screen, add all computers you want analyzed. Click
Browse to see a list of computers you can add to the analysis. Veritas
recommends starting the tool with an administrator or a root account.
8 When all systems are selected, review the System names section and click
Next.
9 In the Validation Options screen, under Validation options, select the version
to which you plan to upgrade.
10 Click Next to continue
11 The utility performs the requested checks and displays the results. You can
upload the report to My SORT, print the results, or save them. Veritas
recommends that you upload the results to the My SORT website for ease of
centralized analysis. Click Upload and enter your My SORT login information
to upload the data to My SORT.
12 When you are finished, click Finish to close the utility.
To create a system-specific installation report for UNIX or Linux
1 Go to the SORT website:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
2 In the Installation and Upgrade section, select Installation and Upgrade
custom reports by SORT data collectors.
3 Select the Data Collector tab.
4 Download the appropriate data collector for your platform.
The data collector is OS-specific. To collect information about Windows
computers, you need the Windows data collector. To collect information about
UNIX computers, you need the UNIX data collector.
5 Change to directory that contains downloaded utility.
6 Run ./sortdc
The utility performs checks to confirm the latest version of the utility is installed.
In addition, the utility checks to see it has the latest data. The utility then lists
the location of the log file for this session.
7 If requested, press Enter to continue.
8 Select the NetBackup Family at the Main Menu.
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9 Select Installation/Upgrade report when prompted What task do you want

to accomplish?
You can select multiple options by separating your response with commas.
10 Specify the system or systems you want included in the report.
If you previously ran a report on the specified system, you may be prompted
to run the report again. Select Yes to re-run the report.
The utility again lists the location of the log files for the session.
The progress of the utility is displayed to the screen.
11 Specify NetBackup when prompted for the product you want installation or
upgrade reports.
12 Enter the number that corresponds to the version of NetBackup you want to
install.
The utility again lists the location of the log files for the session.
The progress of the utility is displayed to the screen.
13 The utility prompts you to upload the report to the SORT website if you want
to review the report online. The online report provides more detailed information
than the text-based on-system report.
14 When your tasks are finished, you can exit the utility. You have the option to
provide feedback on the tool, which Veritas uses to make improvements to the
tool.

Recommended SORT procedures for upgrades

Veritas recommends current NetBackup users perform the three procedures that
are listed for an initial introduction to SORT. The tool has many other features and
functions, but these serve as a good introduction to SORT for users who already
use NetBackup. In addition, the procedures provide a helpful base of knowledge
for other SORT functionality.

Table A-2
Procedure Details

Create a Veritas Account on the SORT See “To create a Veritas Account on the
webpage SORT page” on page 55.
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Table A-2 (continued)

Procedure Details

Create a system-specific upgrade report See “To create a system-specific installation

report for Windows” on page 56.

See “To create a system-specific installation

report for UNIX or Linux” on page 57.

Review the future platform and feature plans. See “To review future platform changes and
feature plans” on page 59.
Review the hot fix and emergency
engineering binary release auditor See “To review hot fix and emergency
information. engineering binary information” on page 59.

To review future platform changes and feature plans

1 In your web browser, navigate to:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
2 Find and select the NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans widget.
3 Select Display Information.
4 Review the information provided
5 Optional - sign in to create notification - Click Sign in and create notification.
To review hot fix and emergency engineering binary information
1 In your web browser, navigate to:
https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup
2 Find and select the NetBackup Hot Fix and EEB Release Auditor widget.
3 Enter the hot fix or emergency engineering binary (EEB) information.
4 Click Search.
5 The new page shows a table with the following columns:

Hot fix of EEB Shows the hot fix or EEB number that was entered on the
Identifier previous screen.

Description Displays a description of the problem that is associated with

the hot fix or EEB.

Resolved in Versions Provides the version of NetBackup where this issue is

resolved.