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NetVault 12.4 - Release Notes

Quest® NetVault® Backup 12.4, Revision 2

Quest® NetVault® Backup 12.4, Revision 2
These release notes provide information about the Quest® NetVault® Backup release.
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About this release
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New Features
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Enhancements
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Resolved issues
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Known issues
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System requirements
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Product licensing
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Upgrade and installation instructions
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More resources
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Globalization
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About this release

Quest NetVault Backup (NetVault Backup) offers the most advanced, cross-platform data protection capabilities on the market and unsurpassed ease of use, out-of-the-box deployment, and pain-free scalability. NetVault Backup allows you to safeguard your data and applications in both physical and virtual environments from one intuitive user interface and to protect a massive number of servers that contain many petabytes of data. NetVault Backup also features heterogeneous support, so you can safeguard data on a wide range of operating systems, applications, databases, processor architectures, and networked storage devices. Such cross-platform versatility makes it easy for you to tailor NetVault Backup to match the ever-changing and growing landscape of your IT infrastructure.

NetVault Backup 12.4 is a minor release, with enhanced features and functionality. For complete product documentation, visit https://support.quest.com/technical-documents.

 
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NOTE: While upgrading from NetVault Backup 12.3 to NetVault Backup 12.4, you may face authentication issues at few places while performing various operations. This is due to a change in the algorithm from NetVault Backup 12.3 to NetVault Backup 12.4. For more information, see Upgrading from NetVault Backup 12.3
 
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CAUTION: NetVault Backup 12.4 has not been verified on HP-UX. Additionally, if you are using NetVault Backup 12.2 with HP-UX and QoreStor, Quest recommends that you do not upgrade to 12.4. (DNR3-799)

New Features

New features in NetVault Backup 12.4:
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Introduced storage tiers, which let you group storage devices and assign it in a target set. (ORBNVPOL-82)
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Added support for Plug-in for SAP HANA and Plug-in for Nutanix. (NV-17, NV-16)
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Added support for Quest QoreStor 5.1 as a storage target for the backups of macOS® NetVault Backup clients. The minimum version of macOS that QoreStor supports is 10.13. (DNR3-1310)
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Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 Linux operating systems. (NVBU-19265)
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Introduced direct-to-cloud object storage replication with StarWind Virtual Tape Library (StarWind VTL). (NVBU-19526)
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Added support for OpenSUSE 15.1. (NVBU-19705, NVBU-19780)
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Enhancements
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Resolved issues

Enhancements

The following is a list of enhancements implemented in NetVault Backup 12.4.
 
Table 1. Enhancements
Enhancement
Issue ID

Added support for Quest NetVault Backup Plug-in for Microsoft Office 365 version 12.4 or later to Catalog Search.

DNPO365-328

Improved performance on the Job Status and Manage Devices pages.

NV-692

Improved navigation to NetVault Server Settings page.

NVBU-18808

Replaced Oracle JAVA with OpenJDK due to a licensing change from Oracle, which resulted in the addition of an Upgrade button for the catalog search package.

NVBU-19263

Added UI improvements and changes in the form of an Advance Search Filter for the restore workflow using Catalog Search.

NVBU-19296

Updated the functionality of the Create Restore Job - Choose Saveset page so that when you click Search All / Search Selected Saveset(s), a details drawer opens instead of a popup.

NVBU-19315

Added an Advanced Search filter to the Catalog Search feature.

NVBU-19322

Added a tab in the Create Backup Job process UI to support Distributed Job Options for the VMware Plugin Options. For more information, see the Quest NetVault Backup Plug-in for VMware User’s Guide.

NVBU-19328

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