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asked in Storage and Deduplication

Business Continuity for IntelliSnap in case of Storage System loss?

Hi all,can someone advice howto proceed with a snap copy in case of loss of the associated datapaths ?In former releases it has been possible to simply create a snapcopy associated with multiple datapaths and set it to use the default path and only alternate paths, if the default path is offline, to store the snap meta data.This was even possible, using non-dedup pools.Now I create a plan, that automatically uses the same (dedup) pool for the snap meta data as for the primary copy.This cannot be changed any longer. if the primary pool goes offline, I’m no longer able to create intellisnap backups, due to missing options to store the meta data.I can use the JavaGUI (not CommandCenter), to promote my secondary copy to primary and continue with sreaming backups, but IntelliSnap backups are no longer possible, because the snap primary is not available and cannot be changed.I’m also not allowed to delete the snap primary using the CommandCenter and create a new one, pointing to a non dedup

RandomCustomerByte

asked in Developer Tools, Integration and Automation

API to extend the job retention by given number of days

I need to extend job retention by the given number of days which will be user input. Is there a particular API to handle this ?

asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Hello,I tried to authenticate with API request to my CS to run API commands:and I tried to authenticate with my user that has master rule and password ( 64 Base , don’t refer to the words - somepass,someusername,domain)and I receive this message : { "errorMessage": "Access denied", "errorCode": 5} Thank you support.

asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Subclients using different Plans what is the impact?

Hello everyone,I have a customer which runs backups of a DB2 database and need to run backups logs frequently, and everytime we run the backups logs, not only the Logs was running, but also the Data.And this was taking a while to complete, in addition to other issues (such as running command line backups, due to Commvault's default protection behavior). This delay was due to the subclient having both Data and Logs content, and when the Logs backup was executed, Data was also protected.To get around this, a new Plan was created, associating it with the same Storage that the original Plan is associated and having the desired Log backup frequency configured; a new Subclient was created and associated with this new Plan.With this, my question is: when performing the restore in this scenario, could Commvault have any problem? If so, what implications could this have? What the impacts in the restore could happen and what could be the workaround? Thank you.

asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Windows System state file restore failed

Hi Team,In Our Infra, We are try to retore the windows system files restore, While try to restore the system state file to other server(out of place restore ) we are getting the below error"Reparse points failed to be restored as this is an out-of-place restore. Please check the restore result for more details "Please suggest or share any solution for the above issueCurrent commServe version: 11.28.24

TD89Byte

asked in HyperScale X Q&A

HyperScale X Hedvig OS update

Hi,I’m trying to update the OS for my Hyperscale X; however, in the documentation they stated that we should use KVM console instead of using SSH. I opened the KVM console on 1 of my nodes, and I can’t find the log in option. I wonder which button I need to press or which command I need to put there in order to log in?

asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Automatic oracle archive log backup beahviour

Hello,We have some oracle database for which the "Archive Delete” option is disabled for both type of backups: datafiles L0/L1 and archive logs at the subclient level. So log backup should never get deleted. There is a schedule attached composed by the regular schedule + an automatic schedule. This is the default setting in our environment and we would like to keep it like that. The idea is this automatic scheduler was triggered and deleted all the archive logs. We can see clearly in the rman logs "archive log all delete input”.My question might be stupid, but is this working as expected? The deletion of the log files... (personally, i believe so)? Even though on the scheduler this option is not selected as well: Any input will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

asked in Software Upgrades and Updates

Upgrade from Commvault 11.24 (with SQL 2014, Win Server 2016) to 11.36

Currently I am on Commvault version 11.24 with SQL Server 2014 and Windows Servers 2016.Will there be any issues with upgrading it to Commvault version 11.36 which is the latest released in June 2024? Will the SQL be upgraded automatically as part of the upgrade?

asked in Share Best Practices

Help needed with Oracle SEHA (Standard Edition High Availability)

Friends, We use on our systems Oracle SEHA (Standard Edition High Availability) databases.That means we have 2 servers and the databases run at one server as single databases. If the server goes down, the database fail-over to the other server. It feels like classical cluster-behavior, but it’s without cluster-software on OS level. This means that Commvault will see the database as a standard Oracle database running on node1. Then when there is a failover, Commvault will autodetect this database on node2 as a new database and the one of node1 will have failed jobs.The when the database fails back to node1, the jobs of this database on node2 will keep having failed jobs.So the database backups are spread on 2 clients, while you can see in CV that the DBID is the same. As we have 30 days retention, we can’t just cleanup the remains on node2 as for recovery we need data from both clients. We also can’t disable the backup for node2, because we don’t know when the next failover will happen

asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

nas evaluation w/ snapdiff

Hello there,Environment: netapp cluster (9.12) with Commvault 2023E Commserve (11.32.56)Current backup: ndmp to tape, 3 incrementals, one fullPossible new backup: cifs to disk w/ aux to tape, incremental and synthetic full only we are currently evaluating the switch from ndmp to nas/cifs backup, as ndmp has no “synthetic full”. this is disturbing when the full backup took 2 or 3 days for ~15TB.For this, I installed a spare server as standalone commserve (w/ eval license) to not disturb our productive system.Following the docs and several threads, I added the storage array and the SVM to Commvault and configured the subclient.I also configured snapdiffv3 on the netapp.The first initial full backup was successful, it created a snapshot where it pulls the files from.As I tried to do an incremental backup, the following happened:second snapshot createdsnapdiff v3 started, with the correct snapshots in the comparisonsnapdiff ended withCFSIScanEngine::ConfigureForChangelistScan(259) - Compar

asked in Storage and Deduplication

Multiple back up for same VMGroup using same mediagent

We want to run two backup jobs on a same VMgroup, using two different server plans which are configured to store backups on two different Object stores.We are also using same media agent; will it cause any issues?Thanks.

asked in Storage and Deduplication

Adding a New Media Agent to Existing Infrastructure

Hi Commvault gurus, Could you please advise me on how to add a new Media Agent to an existing backup infrastructure? What am I missing: there is usually a Global Deduplication Storage Pool that has a MediaAgent with its own Deduplication Database (DDB) with one or more partitions on local disks. How can additional MediaAgents access the already existing Deduplication Database partitions, which together with the Storage Library and MediaAgent, create the so-called Storage Pool? After installing the MediaAgent package, is it enough to click on the Deduplication Storage and add the Media Agents to the existing Storage Pool? In general, what are the best practices when extending the infrastructure?Any suggestions will be much appreciated!

asked in Getting Started

How to set Start of Period for extented retention in plans ?

Hello,I try to migrate from Storage Policies and Schedule Policies to PlansIf I use CommandCenter to create Plans as substitue of exsting Storage Policies, I can decide whether to keep the first or the last backup for extended retention.But I’m missing the definition for the Start of Period (like 3rd day of month or monady in case of a week).The Plan automatic is set to 1st day of month and friday for weekly period.has the start of period option been removed from future configuration options ?If I start with 11.34 today, I would not be able to modify this or even see the current settingsrgdsKlaus

Nawras HaddadeenByte

asked in Software Upgrades and Updates

PostgreSQL Agent package is missing from the Linux x64 installation files

Dear Alli tried to deploy PostgreSQL in both was remote and interactive installation on Linux Server using Commvault Version 11.32. latest release, however in the installation log the needed package was not found. any idea how i can get it, also i tried to redownload the Linux Packages using Commvault Console download, the job completed successfully however same issue.

Marcel GeisenByte

asked in Storage and Deduplication

Different Retention for Log Jobs in a Plan

We want to define a different Retention for any kind of Log Backups in a Plan.On Storage Policy it was possible to define a dedicate Log Storage Policy.In a Plan I cant see the possibility. We are on 11.32.Are there any way to this or future plans to integrate this for Plan Settings?Thx in advance and Best RegardsMarcel

asked in Getting Started

Howto request backup copy to be started as part of backup job in a plan?

Hi,I’m currently migrating from StoragePolicies and SchedulePolicies to Plans, as required for new installation beginning with Commvault 2024 (11.34).In the past I requested the backup copy to be started within the same schedule as the backup.if many subclients / VM Groups are triggered at the same time, the backupcopy is started immediatly or queued until free streams are available.If I use the standard asynchronous method, the backup copies are processed per Storage Policy, Jobs to copy are determined at start time of the backup copyjob and do not automatically add new backups, that are finished during time of execution to the backup copy job list. This results in a higher time needed to complete backup + backup copy operations.I cannot find this option in the plans, I created.I’m also missing the option to throttle the amount of paralell backup operations for a client, which I used to simplify the scheduling without overloading the client.Is there an equivalent option available in t

asked in Storage and Deduplication

DDB horizontal scaling - how hash references work ?

Hello,can someone explain, how DDBs are queried, if new DDBs for a specific purpose are created ?Looking at the figures below, the VMs are leveraged among both DDBs, while only the initially used DDB has a severe amount of primary hash references.I know, that a new DDB is created and subclients are reassociated if a DDB reaches its limits (Q&I time and/or # of hashes), but I always assumed, that after the reassociation, some of the data is again identified as unique.The picture below let me assume, that old references are still honored and only new hashed are added to the currently associated DDB. If this was true, a new horizontal DDB does not automatically require additional space in the backend. thanksKlaus

asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Is it Synthetic Full backup will support VMware backup jobs

Hi,I have configured VMware backup jobs weekly 6 days incremental and one day Synthetic full backup job.But i can see only incremental jobs without synthetic full. Commvault running version - 11.32. Please advise how to perform synthetic full in job level.

rasByte

asked in Developer Tools, Integration and Automation

cvpysdk - lists all backup jobs history from specific client

Can someone knows on how to lists all the subclient backup jobs history using cvpysdk? Any sample syntax that we can follow?

asked in Getting Started

Is there a setting that only certain IPs can access when connecting to Commvault Command Center?

Is there a setting that only certain IPs can access when connecting to Commvault Command Center?

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asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Multi-Factor Authentication - Commvault Support Portal

Recently, for a brief period, multi-factor authentication was required when logging into Commvault sites (Maintenance Advantage / Support Portal, Expert Documentation, etc). Is there any way to have that re-enabled for the Maintenance Advantage / Support Portal? It would be great if Expert Documentation didn't required MFA, it would be even better if Expert Documentation didn't require authentication at all.

asked in Software Upgrades and Updates

Upgrade from Commvault 11.28 to 11.32, SQL 2019 and win server 2019

Hello,We are preparing to upgrade Commvault Servers to the version 11.32.56 from 11.28.56. We have a total of 6 servers in Commvault architecture as below. Please suggest how to proceed with the upgrade in sequence.

asked in Virtualization and Containers

what creates cv-config namespace and is it required

Our container SME noticed that there was a new namespace created a couple days ago which appears “empty” for the most part. This page talks about it but sort of implies it requires manual steps to set up.Nobody did anything to push this into the cluster, and, we protect 4 distinct clusters with cvlt yet only one of them has this new namespace in it. All 4 are backing up just fine (all namespaces that is) so, what is it and why does it appear to be randomly created in our clusters?thanks!

asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

The pathname 'java' is not allowed since it is either a junction or a symlink

NDMP Backups completed with errors due to following error:NDMP Server [] reported the following error: [DUMP: Error: The pathname 'java' is not allowed since it is either a junction or a symlink] Nevertheless Commvault shows 0 failed files or folders. Is anything can be done to make those backups green (complete without errors)?

asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

REPLICA LIBRARY FOR AN ISOLATED ENVIRONMENT

Hi,We would like to implement an airgapped environment for critical backup copies to remain isolated.This environment must be controlled completely on its own (from inside) so instead of Commvault’s airgap approach, we are thinking of using hardware replication provided by our backup storage appliance in which the disk library resides (OceanProtect).I understand that a Replica Library would let me use the hardware replicated disk library as read-only.Will this work even if the replication is not continuous, but configured to run only at a specific time? (meaning that the replicated disk library won’t always have the latest data). Would we be able to use the same or a standby MediaAgent to access that data? In case the original disk library is compromised and cannot be recovered, would there be a way of using the Replica Library as the main disk library (like replicating everything back to the source backup appliance and restarting normal operations)? Can we use the Commserve’s DR backu

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