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Veritas NetBackup is an enterprise level backup and recovery suite. It provides cross-platform backup functionality to Windows, Linux, OpenVMS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, Tru64 and Mac OS X. NetBackup has the capability of communicating with various robotic libraries and tape drives.

It is set up with a central master server that manages both media servers (containing the backup media) and clients. Multiple NetBackup environments can be managed by NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) which is bundled with the NetBackup 6.0 distribution, which replaces the Global Data Manager (GDM) component used in previous versions. NetBackup comes with support for many hardware devices like tape drives, tape libraries, disk units, and supports, amongst many others, hot backups for major database products like Oracle, can use Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), and has tape vaulting. NetBackup also enables LAN-Free and server-free backups in SAN fabric environments.

Contents 1 History of NetBackup 2 Major features of NetBackup 3 Major releases 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

• In 1987, a backup software solution was written by a small group of engineers at Control Data for Chrysler Corporation, and later adopted by other customers of Control Data.
• In 1990, Control Data formed the Automated Workstation Backup System (AWBUS) business unit. The first version of AWBUS supported two tape drives in a single robotic carousel with the SGI IRIX operating system.
• In 1993, Control Data renamed the product Aria*BackupPlus 1.0. (This is why many NetBackup commands have a 'bp' prefix.) Support for media Volume Management and Server Migration/Hierarchical Storage Management was added.
• In the end of 1993, the product and Control Data’s Storage Management 12-person team were acquired by Openvision. This is why, on UNIX platforms, NetBackup installs into /usr/openv. During this time, Open Vision renamed Backup Plus to NetBackup.
• On May 6, 1997 Veritas acquired Openvision, NetBackup formally became a Veritas product.
• In 2005 Symantec acquired Veritas and NetBackup became a Symantec product. Also in this year, the 30th version of NetBackup was released as NetBackup 6.0.

• Security
  • Data Encryption
  • Access Control

• Performance
  • Synthetic Backups
  • Disk Staging
  • Checkpoint restart
  • Multiplexed Backup
  • Multi-streamed Backup
  • Inline Copy
  • Online NetBackup catalog backup

• Management and Reporting
  • Web-based management reporting (VERITAS NetBackup Operations Manager)
  • Tape volume, drive and library viewing
  • Error message identification, categorization and troubleshooting

• Media Management
  • Enterprise Media Manager
  • Automatic robotic/tape drive configuration
  • Broad tape device support

• Heterogeneous Support
  • Broad platform support
  • Support for leading networking topologies
  • Advanced software and hardware snapshot support

• 6.0 was released in 2005
• 5.0 was released in 2003
• 4.5 was released in 2002
• 3.4 was released in 2000
• 3.0 was released in 1997
• 2.0 was released in 1996
• 1.6 was released in 1994 and the NetBackup name was coined

• List of backup software

• Symantec The new owner of Veritas.
• Veritas-bu, a mailing list for NetBackup users.
• NetBackup Faq-O-Matic, a NetBackup FAQ page.
• NetBackup Documentation and Manuals at Sun Microsystems

• Veritas NetBackup in Retrospect