New features for NetBackup for Microsoft SQL Server
The following features are available in this release:
Log truncation is turned off for log shipping environments.
NetBackup detects log shipping environments and turns off log truncation in the backups that are performed with SQL Server Intelligent Policies, batch file-based policies, or protection plans. This feature prevents out-of-sequence events for the target of log shipping.
Added capabilities for grouped snapshots.
Grouped snapshots quiesce a group of databases together and create a snapshot to back them up as a group.
Added support for dynamic grouped snapshots with SQL Server Intelligent Policies. NetBackup automatically discovers and groups any databases up to the specified value. This attribute is new for SQL Server Intelligent Polices in NetBackup 10.3.
When the group size limit (64) is reached, an additional snapshot is created.
A separate snapshot is created if the master database is included in the policy.
If both availability databases and standard databases are included in the same policy, separate snapshots are created for each availability group and for the standard databases.
Increased group size limit for grouped snapshots with batch-file based policies.
For batch-file based policies, support for grouped snapshots is still available with the keyword GROUPSIZE. The group size limit has increased from 32 to 64.