The 7.0.1 release continues to build on the strong foundation started with NetBackup 7. Customer adoption of NetBackup 7 has been faster than any of Symantecs previous major releases. New features in 7.0.1 are:
Client Offline: This feature allows you to easily designate specific clients as being offline or unavailable for backup for a fixed period of time. By doing so you can reduce the amount of time spent troubleshooting failed backups that were known to be offline to begin with. Specific duration times can be set so the client will automatically come back online and resume with the next incremental or full backup.
Audit Trails: If you need to track policy changes and restore jobs, you will love this feature. With Audit Trails you will better understand who changed what policies and when. This feature also details who executed which restore jobs and what they restored. When troubleshooting backup jobs – it helps to answer the question “what has changed”?
NDMP improvements: Symantec have made two significant improvement in their support of NDMP. First they have introduced a stream handler which allows their De-duplication engine to intelligently look inside the NDMP stream to provide the maximum De-duplication rate possible. Additionally they are introducing multiplexing support for remote NDMP backups. This feature allows you to multiplex multiple NDMP streams together to better take advantage of the high through put rates of today’s tape drives. This allows you to keep the tape media streaming, improving backup performance.
Hyper-V Volume GUID support: Those of you using Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation technology will no doubt welcome this enhancement. NetBackup now supports the use of volume GUIDs in these environments instead of simply drive letters. Volume GUIDs have been Microsoft’s recommend way of configuring clustered Hyper-V volumes and now NetBackup can backup and restore using these GUIDs.
Enterprise Vault 9 agent: 7.0.1 provides agent support for those of you running Enterprise Vault 9. This agent greatly simplifies the process of backing up and restoring your Enterprise Vault environment.