Veritas NetBackup™ Self

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 Contents

Chapter 1 NetBackup Self Service Release Notes ....................... 5

About NetBackup Self Service 8.1 ..................................................... 5

Chapter 2 New features and enhancements .................................. 7

Protection Level Charging ................................................................ 7

Protection Level Analysis ................................................................. 8
Unmanaged Protection .................................................................... 8
Backup Now Enhancements ............................................................. 9
Miscellaneous Enhancements ......................................................... 10
Bugs fixed ................................................................................... 10
Upgrade from previous versions ...................................................... 11
 Chapter 1
NetBackup Self Service
Release Notes
This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About NetBackup Self Service 8.1

About NetBackup Self Service 8.1

NetBackup Self Service 8.1 empowers users to self-serve common backup and
restore requests while providing automation and control to IT.
Self Service's multi-tenant, role-based access, and dashboard features provide
visibility over what’s protected and ongoing backup usage. Self Service's request
forms put complex policy management tasks safely in the hands of users who are
not trained in the complexities of NetBackup administration.

For Enterprises
Managing backups and restores for many thousands of endpoints across multiple
locations and data centers is a task that typically requires a team of specialists.
Effecting changes to policies can be a time consuming, error prone, manual activity
that can leave vital resources unprotected.
Enabling an intuitive self-service portal reduces complexity and errors, and
automates a significant number of manual policy change activities. It also enables
non-backup specialists to carry out backup and recovery-related tasks in a controlled
and audited environment.

For Service providers

Providing backup and restore services to multiple tenants across mixed platforms
is a challenge for many service providers. Service providers can enable self-service
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About NetBackup Self Service 8.1

and automate tenant requests for backups and restores. This action puts the tenant
in control and significantly reduces provisioning costs.
NetBackup Self Service allows multiple tenants to access a tailored, self-service
portal through which requests to back up and restore infrastructure are made
intuitively. The status of their protected environments is tracked and reported.
Service providers gain from automation while ensuring strict separation and security
between tenant environments. Tenants gain control and visibility over what is
protected.

Installation
For details of how to install NetBackup Self Service, please refer to the NetBackup
Self Service 8.1 Installation Guide.
 Chapter 2
New features and
enhancements
This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Protection Level Charging

■ Protection Level Analysis

■ Unmanaged Protection

■ Backup Now Enhancements

■ Miscellaneous Enhancements

■ Bugs fixed

■ Upgrade from previous versions

Protection Level Charging

The charging features of NetBackup Self Service have been enhanced to provide
more granular representation of the costs involved in protecting assets.
NetBackup Self Service continues to support two underlying Charge Types:
1. Consumed Capacity: Average daily backup space consumed
2. New Backups: Total size of new backups in period
When the configured Cost is applied to the Consumed Capacity charge type it
represents charge per gigabyte (GB) per month. For New Backups it represents a
flat per GB charge. Both the Charge Type and Cost can vary per Tenant, if required.
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Protection Level Analysis

NetBackup Self Service 8.1 additionally supports Protection Level-specific charging.

This change allows differing charge rates for policy attributes, such as storage
profile.
Effective charge rates for each Protection Level can be viewed from the Usage
page. Data is accessible by the REST API.

Protection Level Analysis

The home page dashboards of NetBackup Self Service have been enhanced to
include a new tab page called Charts. This tab displays analysis of the Protection
Types and Levels currently in use. The tab page is only available for Tenant users
with the Allow Usage Report access right.
Three charts are available:
1. Backup Size – displays the size of current unexpired backups for each
Type/Level
2. Computer Count – displays the number of computers that are backed up for
each Type/Level
3. Charge – displays the total charge for each charge level
All charts show current total values of unexpired backup images. They are displayed
to all Tenant Admin users.
The charts show all Protection Types with backup data by default. These can be
hidden or shown by toggling the legend labels.
Tenant Administration level users can click on a chart to drill through to the computer
list page. The selected Protection Level filters the computer list page.
All the data that is shown in the charts is accessible through the REST API.

Unmanaged Protection
A new class of Protection has been created in NetBackup Self Service 8.1. It allows
computers to be restored and have their health monitored, but assumes protection
(policy management) is handled outside of NetBackup Self Service.
The term “unmanaged” refers to NetBackup Self Service not managing the policy
coverage for the computer. These “monitor and restore” computers have a protection
type code assigned like any other. However, its primary purpose is to define the
SLA for backup health determination. Flexibility is also provided to detect only the
backups that are made with certain policies or all, for health measurement.
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Backup Now Enhancements

Backup Now Enhancements

Storage Level Policies (SLP)
SLPs can now be configured and used on the policies that are linked to Backup
Now Protection Levels. The request form that is presented to users can be
configured to support the entry of a Retention period or SLP. All SLPs available are
presented for selection by the user. This feature is also available through the
NetBackup Self Service REST API.

Reuse of Existing Policy

If a computer is already protected and residing in a scheduled policy, NetBackup
Self Service allows the user to initiate an immediate backup using that policy. The
scheduled policy is run for the selected computer only. This option is restricted to
only client-based policy types. This feature is also available through the NetBackup
Self Service REST API.

Duplicated Backups
If a backup image has been duplicated to multiple copies, NetBackup Self Service
now refreshes the image information that is held for the computer on expiry.
The number of image copies that are held is now visible in the computer backup
list page.

VMware Accelerator Backups

Previously NetBackup Self Service used the size of the backup images that was
recorded in the catalog for all usage reports and dashboards. A new integration
setting enables NetBackup Self Service to use transferred data sizes where
available. These values are set when the Accelerator for VMware is in use.

Metadata
Computers and vCloud Director containers that are registered at NetBackup Self
Service can now have additional custom attributes assigned as name and value
pairs. You can set these attributes through the NetBackup Self Service REST API.
You can view Computers and containers in the computer detail page.
Any metadata that is defined at vCloud Director against computers, vApps, or vDCs
is optionally available for inclusion in the vCloud Director scheduled import.

VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) plug-in

The VMware vRealize plug-in that was released in NetBackup Self Service 8.0 is
enhanced. It includes support for file restore, auto discovery of VMs, and use of
the latest NetBackup Self Service REST API (v6), with user authentication.
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Miscellaneous Enhancements

Miscellaneous Enhancements
Check template policy compatibility
When you configure Protection Levels in NetBackup Self Service, a check is now
made to ensure compatibility of the master server residing template policy assigned.
The policy type and schedule are verified.

Computer List
A new Protection Type filter has been added to the computer list on the home page.

Protection Type Admin

The pages in this area have been reworked to improve usability.

REST API and Cross Origin Site Requests

The NetBackup Self Service REST API now supports Cross Origin Site (CORS)
requests.

Request List
The request list shows an audit of all user-initiated requests passing through
NetBackup Self Service. A number of usability improvements have been made.

Bugs fixed
The following defects have been resolved:
■ vCloud Director computers with display names over 41 characters are now
protected.
■ Backup Now of a vCloud Director vApp or vDC now works with more than one
Protection Level.
■ Copying a protection template policy now copies over the policy type and file
protect flag from the source policy.
■ Search by computer ID is now possible.
■ An intermittent error when you first click Check Connectivity is resolved.
■ In a certain scenario, after you run Backup Now, a refresh computers failure
has been fixed.
■ A security vulnerability has been rectified in the Request List and Approvals
views.
■ Request Summary: In panel view the price field no longer displays when it should
be hidden.
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Upgrade from previous versions

■ Request Summary: The Fulfilment retry option now works in the panel view
■ Security vulnerability CVE-2017-9248, found in an included component, has
been rectified.
■ Users from deactivated tenants are no longer available for selection when
impersonating.

Upgrade from previous versions

Upgrade from NetBackup Self Service 7.6.1, 7.7, 7.7.3 and 8.0 is supported.
See the NetBackup Self Service Installation Guide (8.1) for details.