Other known issues resolved in NetBackup 8.1.2
This topic contains a list of some of the known issues that were fixed and included in the NetBackup 8.1.2 release.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3910460
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910459
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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.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3908100
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3908098
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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.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3910002
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3910001
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The "VirtiFile.Sys" minifilter setting did not use the default altitude value which Microsoft recommended (280700).
Associated Primary Etrack: 3929103
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3929102
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An OpsCenter Success Rate Line report displayed data for the date 1 unit prior to the specified date. For example, if the date was specified by month, the report displayed data for the month prior to the specified date, or the day prior if the date was specified by day.
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This etrack introduced a way for customers to manually initiate or disable certificate auto-renewals.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3937833
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3937832
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NetBackup installed user IDs and passwords in an XML file in cleartext format, which could pose a security risk.
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MSDPcheck had a dependence on URI/Escape.pm, which was not always available.
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Redirected appliance restores that were targeted to alternate locations intermittently failed and produced core dumps.
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If no entities existed, the Images API produced inconsistent responses which did not conform to the API specification.
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This etrack added an "Overview/Getting started" section to the NetBackup API documentation.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3938757
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3938756
Description:
The MSDPcheck tool had a dependence on URI/Escape.pm, which wasn't always available. If URI/Escape.pm was not available or could not be located, MSDPcheck failed.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3939004
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3938995
Description:
After updating to NetBackup 8.1, nbdeployutility showed host UUID values instead of server names for VMware policies in capacity reports.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3941175
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3941173
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The update_clients script failed for Linux clients, but still upgraded the client to NetBackup 8.1.1.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3941650
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3941649
Description:
Cloud Catalyst could not be configured with server names longer than 60 characters.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3940672
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3940670
Description:
NetBackup Web management console service experienced issues because some setup scripts were not correctly handling a space in the group name.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3942840
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3942839
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Because no error checking existed in esfs_init.sh while calling the mkesfs binary, no messages were logged when a core dump issue occurred in mkesfs.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3942730
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3942729
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Password digests could not be set in Appliance version 3.11 if the password from the previous version was not known.
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MSDP SPA needed a password reset ability.
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This etrack removed logic added to update 7.5/7.6.x installs that used robust logging.
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NetBackup does not recognize B-tree file systems (btrfs) on Linux. B-tree file systems are currently treated as local file systems.
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Duplicate clients were appearing in the bppllist output after changing the discovery host.
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The error message for a MSDPcheck failure to fix corrupt image with unrecoverable DO was not clearly stated.
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Discovery clients were not appearing in the bppllist output.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3940672
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3940670
Description:
NetBackup Web management console service experienced issues because some setup scripts were not correctly handling a space in the group name or user name.
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Network boot was not working for Windows clients if the client and the boot server were in different subnets.
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The Jobs API documentation did not accurately reflect the functionality.
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Backups of BRTFS sub-volumes were not supported.
Associated Primary Etrack: 3945615
Associated Service Request Etrack(s): 3945614
Description:
During a VMWare backup, a client was terminated unexpectedly on a virtual machine while skipping an independent disk.