I'm very pleased to announce that the next Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.5 is now available!

NetBackup 7.5.0.5 is the fifth maintenance release for NetBackup 7.5.  It is a cumulative release containing fixes and content from 7.5.0.1 through 7.5.0.4. In addition, this release contains almost 400 additional fixes (bringing the total fixes in 7.5.0.5 to over 1100!) including the most commonly downloaded EEBs, several customer escalations, and internal engineering defects.

NetBackup 7.5.0.5 includes the following proliferations and enhancements:

• vSphere 5.1 Support - Consuming VDDK 5.0 U1
• VMware backup host is now supported on the following operating systems:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 x64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 x64
• Bare Metal Restore is now supported on the following operating systems:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • Oracle Linux 5.7...

I'm very pleased to announce that the next Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.5 is now available!

NetBackup 7.5.0.3, a software only Maintenance Release, is the third maintenance release for NetBackup 7.5. It is a cumulative release containing fixes and content from 7.5.0.1 (software-only) and 7.5.0.2 (appliance-only). In addition, this release contains fixes to over 325 issues including the most commonly downloaded EEBs, several customer escalations, and internal engineering defects. The significant content of this release is:

• Solaris 11 master server, Bare Metal Restore server and OpsCenter Managed Server support
• No new features in 7.5.0.3.  However, some features that were delivered in previous maintenance releases are included:          
  • NetBackup for VMware on SLES – delivered in 7.5.0.2
  • PureDisk seeding utility – delivered in 7.5.0.2
  • Client Direct...

I'm very pleased to announce that a new Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.1 is now available!

NetBackup 7.1.0.4 is fourth and final maintenance release for NetBackup 7.1.  It is a cumulative release - which means it includes all previous fixes from the 7.1.0.1, 7.1.0.2 and 7.1.0.3 maintenance releases.  In addition, this release contains fixes to overall 250 issues including most commonly downloaded EEBs, several customer escalations and internal engineering defects.

The significant contents of this release are:

• Server side Auto Image Rebasing for better data locality and improved rehydration/restore performance
• Resiliency improvements to address common issues and avoid RecoverCR runs as much possible, RecoverCR Lite tool to reduce downtime, Optimized Duplication (Opt-Dup) bandwidth throttling improvements
• Improved performance of...

I'm very pleased to announce that a new Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.1 is now available!

NetBackup 7.1.0.3 is the third maintenance release on NetBackup 7.1.  This release contains several new proliferations as listed below:

• Support for vSphere5
• Support for SharePoint 2010 SP1 and Exchange 2010 SP2
• Client support for Mac 10.7
• Master and media support for AIX 7.1
• NBSL changes to gather hardware information from appliance media servers attached to NBU7.1.x master servers

Along with above mentioned proliferations, several customer issues and internal engineering defects were fixed covering:

• Resolution of Deduplication issues around data inconsistency, stream handler, GRT and high memory consumption during backups
• Resolution of performance issues experienced by customers in BMR pre-restore environment since 7.0.X
• Restore related issues in BMRon windows and HP ‘G...