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BillyBoo
 Self-Hosted Q&A
Oracle RAC select host priority

When backing up from Oracle RAC, Commvault selects an available server by default.Is it possible to select a specific server for backup? 

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yanis thrBit
 Readiverse (Education)
Confirmation of Exam Validity

Dear Commvault Team,I hope this message finds you well.I am writing to confirm the expiration date of my Commvault exam. In my account, it states that my exam expires on 14/06/2025.Could you please confirm whether this date is inclusive, meaning I can still take the exam until the end of the day on June 14, 2025?Thank you in advance for your assistance.Best regards.

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LuisGioBit
 Share Best Practices
Unable to restore Exchange to PST, SharePoint and OneDrive to disk.

Anyone else experiencing the problem with Office 365 when trying to run a restore where the options were recently changed? Exchange restore I can only restore the items to the original mailbox or I need to pick another mailbox. I no longer have the option to restore to PST file. SharePoint, I can only restore to the same site or I need to pick another site. The option to restore to disk is no longer available and the same goes for OneDrive. I don’t like the limited options now for restoring Office 365 files. 

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tigger2Byte
 Self-Hosted Q&A
Question about upgrade from 11.28.56 to 11.32.[latest]. Can it be done entirely through the Java console?

I want to upgrade from 11.28.56 to 11.32.[latest] and want to know if I can "just do it via the Java console" (just download the software update into the cache via the Java console then push/upgrade commserve/livesync commserve via the java console) It appears you can at first glance.. but after going through the docs there appears to be some indications I cannot/should not.Just wondering if anyone has done this or knows if I cannot do it via java console only. The docs are a little all over the place (the links below) and make me think I have to uninstall my commserve and MSSQL then reinstall both (from the media kit) and restore from a DR backup, then do the same to my livesync server…. all because my MSSQL DB versions are a bit out of date and out of sync.Background:I have all physical CommVault servers, so no VM snapshots possible I don't mind taking a commvault outage to do updates. I have a LiveSync commserve for DR and it also appears somehow the DB's for the commserve and DR/Li

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EmmanuelArmestoBit
 Share Best Practices
Sybase configuration failing

On a linux RH 9.4 we are trying to configure a sybase DB. We keep getting this error and cannot find where is the error. Connectivity workd ok, FS backups of the server are working. Version of commvault is 11.36.41. We have followed the steps as per the documentation. 2164438 2106f2 06/12 11:54:19 ### CvSybChildProcess::CreateProcess() - arg[5] = -vm2164438 2106f2 06/12 11:54:19 ### CvSybChildProcess::CreateProcess() - arg[6] = Instance0012164438 2106f2 06/12 11:54:19 ### CvSybChildProcess::CreateProcess() - size of args: 72164438 2106d6 06/12 11:54:19 ### ClSybBrowseAgent::SybBrowse() - Received(126 bytes)2164438 2106d6 06/12 11:54:19 ### ClSybBrowseAgent::SybBrowse() - Received broken pipe from child. So far read 126 bytes2164438 2106d6 06/12 11:54:19 ### CvSybChildProcess::Wait() - Exit status 0x100 (return 1 0x1)2164438 2106d6 06/12 11:54:19 ### CvSybChildProcess::Wait() - Child exited with error: 12164438 2106d6 06/12 11:54:19 ### ClSybBrowseAgent::SybBrowse() - Wait failed2164438

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Abdul QadirByte
 HyperScale X Q&A
upgrade 11.36 from 11.32 with Commserve LiveSync and Apollo gen 10 hyperscale-x

Hi Guys,I need to upgrade from 11.32 to 11.36 in a live sync, what is the best way doing in full downtime without initiating maintenance failover as described in documents, so if I download and Sync cache can i upgrade active / standby commserve one by one, means first active then standby. Also, MS SQL will be updated along with from 2019 to 2022?After this I can upgrade commvault software on hyperscale-x, is there any need to upgrade hedvig or OS patches as we are currently on 2.2410 and 3.2410 (mix of RHEL and rocky)Please I am waiting for your valuable advice.Regards,AQ

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TNOByte
 HyperScale X Q&A
Hyperscale X Rocky linux - Restrict SSH access

Hello, We are restricting ssh access to our HS nodes using the firewalld.Can Selinux create a conflict with firewald once enabled ( by commvault ) on the nodes ? Thanks

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 Virtualization and Containers
VSA cannot show OLVM

Helo team,Hello team,I have a problem when configuring Oracle Linux virtual manager, I have created a proxy (VSA) with Oracle Linux 8.5 OS but when I select the access node for the proxy it does not come out.Additional information proxy using VM installed in OLVM itself.Is there a requirement that is missing

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Tony456Byte
 SaaS (Metallic) Q&A
convert app registrations to Federated credentials

Hi Had a query from Cloud team wondering if metallic app regs may be converted to Federated credential svcon-metallic-apecohub this is a sample  Thanks in advance  

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sanjay kanireBit
 Virtualization and Containers
backup of Hyper-V VM have mounted SAN LUN and restore to specific checkpoint

We have multiple Hyper-V VM having SAN LUN mounted, the Microsoft itself not provide the feature to take snapshot of VM if SAN LUN mounted on it.Please share the way to take backup and restore of that VM on commvault.

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MelchiottiChristianByte
 Self-Hosted Q&A
Change auxcopy automatic schedule without commcell console

Hi, there is a chance to change the auxcopy automatic schedule from 30 min to 15 min in commandcenter or with a script? I’m in version 11.36 and with new installations commcel console GUI isn’t available. Additionalsetting Showschedulepolicy is not a valid way.Thanks

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SSchmidtCommvault Certified Expert
 Self-Hosted Q&A
Reporting Used accounts

hi, is there any report wich i can use to report wich accounts are used for agents backups ? 

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JosserandMBit
 Developer Tools, Integration and Automation
Arlie Public Rest Api Access

Is there a plan to get public rest api access to arlie.commvault.com ?I need to corelate my own exctraction tool to propose local admin some troubleshooting steps.thx ! 

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adam.tomzaBit
 Getting Started
1-Touch Linux recovery UEFI cannot start yastgui

Hello,I’ve created 1-touch recovery dvd using this procedure https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/1_touch_for_linux_single_stage_dvd.html but when I try to boot from the media I’ve created the system cannot mount dvd and cannot find /dev/hd* devicewhat could be the reason?

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CommTech
 Storage and Deduplication
How to remove Synthetic Backup from Command Center plan

Good morning!##########################Environment details:CommVault server: Win 2022 STDVersion: 11.36.35 ##########################I have a small problem creating the plan on the command center. The plan automatically adds a synthetic backup; I do not have an option to remove it. The Backup target is StoreOnce, which does deduplication and compression. synthetic will add more load on the Storage hence want to remove it. pls help.

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Vishal SainiByte
 Self-Hosted Q&A
DDB slide not showing in the storage pool creation

Hi Team,We are need to create the new storage pool with DDB enable. But DDB slide not showing in the storage pool creation time in the CommCell.Version: 11.32.102

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SSchmidtCommvault Certified Expert
 Self-Hosted Q&A
Windows Server 2022 local firewall excludes

Hi All, maybe you can give me an hint. I have an new windows server 2022 mediaagent in a remote datacenter wich is needed for auxcopy. The connection between source and destination ma is over an vpn and there are no rules aktive.  When we have the windows domain firewall aktive we get a lot of chunk errors and we get errors during connecting the ddbs,  i run the the AddFWExclusions script in the base folder but i think there are a lot of processes and ports missing.  is there an instruction or another possibility to set all needed commvault processes and ports into the local windows firewall ? 

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RogerBBit
 SaaS (Metallic) Q&A
Notifications failing DMARC in Gmail (dmarc=fail)

Gmail thinks Commvault is trying to spoof my email address and is consistently marking them as spam.I’ve repeatedly unmarked it and created filters to keep it out of the spam folder without success. I haven’t tried the nuclear option, using a filter to mark it as “Not Spam”, but in my experience, doing that causes a lot of other issues, and real spam bypasses the filters. Thoughts? I’ve copied the header address, which repeatedly shows Commvault.com as a permitted sender, and right after that, DMARC fails. RogerB <NotMyEmail@gmail.com> via commvault.comto: NotMyEmail@gmail.comdate: May 8, 2025, 3:30 AMsubject: Backup job summary - Backup job summary - Reportmailed-by: commvault.comsigned-by: commvault.com ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com;       dkim=pass header.i=@commvault.com header.s=smtp-eastus-01 header.b=a8F89wsC;       spf=pass (google.com: domain of admin-saas@commvault.com designates 135.237.4.36 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=admin-saas@commvault.com; 

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Egor SkepkoByte
 Self-Hosted Q&A
CommVaultRegistryBackups

Hello, After each linux update i am seeing this msg belove, what is this exacly and can i store it on /opt/hds location instead at etckeeper?? 39 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250121082400.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250128033422.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250128042923.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250128052422.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250128061923.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250128071422.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250128085924.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250128095423.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250129025925.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250129030925.gz delete mode 100644 CommVaultRegistryBackups/Instance001/20250129

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techyogi
 Virtualization and Containers
Vm license Counted twice with second backup set

We have configure Hyper-v vm backup to Tape now there was one requets from client to take monthly backups to Disk for those VM.Since we can not create another sublclient for same VM backup, we created another backup setup then a deault subclien was used with Storage to disk policy for same VM.Now, my VM licenses are counted twice, why is it so and if there is any other way acheive my target? 

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JFSBit
 Share Best Practices
Backup of TrueNAS 13 CIFS share always backs up all files

I’ve got a TrueNAS server with a bunch of CIFS shares.  I setup a Windows File System client to do the backups of the CIFS shares, using our CommCell master to do the backups.  Unfortunately, no matter what, it backups up all the same files for both Full and Incremental backups, which slows things down and screws up temp disk space usage.   So what’s the process to figure out why this is happening?  This is around 1.7Tb of data and 2+ million files, so it really slows things down. CommVault 11.36.5?  something, pretty new.  The TrueNAS is Enterprise 13.0-U6.2 release.  The Windows backup server is running Windows Server 2016 (I know, I know...)  The TrueNAS runs Samba internally to do CIFS shares.  Not sure where the disconnect is here.  Has anyone else got this working properly?  

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BillyBoo
 Self-Hosted Q&A
VM Validation with network

Hi i want to doing  vm validations  with network.By design, vm validate  works without a valid network.But i need the execute post script after vm deployed to esx .Is there any way to validate vm with network ?   

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dudeByte
 Self-Hosted Q&A
DDB Verification Concurrent Operations

Hi All,I currently have a few DDB Stores to run DDB Verification for the first time (Full) and they are quite large, so running multiple jobs would be quite helpful. So considering the statements below from the docs, I started 1 DDB Verf and specified 30 streams. Attempted to initiate a second one and it automatically goes into a queued state. My first job is only using 30, should I be able to run a second one in this scenario? What am I missing? “You can perform only up to 50 concurrent data verification jobs. Any additional jobs that you perform get queued.”“ By default, deduplicated data verification job uses 20 streams during Validate Data phase and 50 streams during Verify Data phase.”Thanks

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AndresLByte
 Self-Hosted Q&A
Disk library storage configuration best practice for 256KB deduplication factor

Hello,Could you please suggest storage best practice configuration for Deduplication storage pool that will use 256KB deduplication factor.How should be configured disk library:1) Strip size to use for underlying RAID Volume? 64KB 128KB or 256KB? (unable to find any recommendations from Commvault)2) NTFS block size? In general there is recommendation to use 64KB. Is it still the same for 256KB deduplication factor storage pools?3) By default, the system uses 4 GB as the chunk size and 64 KB as the block size to read/write data from disk libraries. Should i change this if I use 256KB deduplication factor? Should I increase read/write block size?Thank you in advance!

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SteinarBit
 Getting Started
Best Practices (Indexing Version 2) Block size

The doc state:  Use a volume dedicated to the index cache directory formatted with a block allocation size of 32K.(Best Practices (Indexing Version 2) Is this the LogicalSectorSize [Bytes Per Sector] or PhysicalSectorSize [Bytes Per Physical Sector] in a Windows server NTFS volume or is REFS type to be prefered ?

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