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We are in the process of replacing a tape library with another. How many tape libraries can be configured on a mediaagent? We would like to have both attached at the same time for a transition period. The old one has LTO6 drives and the new one has LTO9 drives.

we are having issue with our backups with the cluster config while running the backup on the client gettig below errorthe jobs kept on going to pending state when we tried to run one of the node we got below error , we have checked the telnet connection from cleint to MA 8403 and its working  

Most of the Commvault implementations we perform are making use of ‘Network Gateways’ / ‘Proxies’.To make it my life a bit easier, I’m using the ‘Network Gateway Appliance’ which can be downloaded on cloud.commvault.com. (https://cloud.commvault.com/webconsole/softwarestore/#!/130/704/19138).I noticed the latest version is still 11.20; which can still be upgraded. But the appliance is also CentOS7 based which is giving me more and more hassle.… as it’s approaching EOL.Are there any plans to renew the appliance ? Perhaps based on an Oracle Linux edition (such as the FREL appliance) ?I’m aware that the gateway / proxy is just a component and that I can install virtually any OS to function as a proxy. Just that it was nice having an officially supported OVA template ready to deploy ?I believe I should be able to use an FREL virtual appliance to setup proxies as well ? By just removing the MA role & software cache ?If you have any news, preferred approaches … please let me know.Kind re

Good Day Community, An auditing company is requesting the system generated user listings for Commvault from Jan 1st, 2023 – July 31st 2023, showing the following parameters:  o    user IDo    user status (active/disabled)o    user creation dateo    user disabled dateo    access roles/groupso    last login date.   Is there a report I can run that would give that information?If not, I’d like to create a custom report from the WebConsole, but what would be the table/view with the required information?Many thanks in advance.

Good morning,We’re using rman/cron to back up our Oracle instances to commvault; we patched from 19.19 to 19.20 this weekend, and I noticed entries in events indicating a mismatch.  How can I resolve this?Severity: MajorProgram: CIDBControlAgentEvent code: 18:6Description: Oracle home is not correct. Thanks!

Hi All, I have a large number of AWS S3 Buckets to protect however I have noticed that I am not able to create or use Auto scaling access nodes. Even HA for the access nodes is not an option as you can only select a single node in the config. you cannot select a group. How would I get HA for these access nodes apart from actually creating a OS Cluster to ensure HA? i can see as per Auto-Scaling for Amazon EC2 Access Nodes (commvault.com) that Auto-scaling is not currently supported for Amazon RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, EFS, FSx, or S3 backup. how do we ensure HA at a minimum?

Good evening,I am creating an automation (in PowerShell) which adds VM to subclient. I use Add-CVVirtualMachine command, and it works pretty well, however I am not able to catch any (unseccesfull) outputs.Example:$aaa = Add-CVVirtualMachine -ClientName $VCenter -SubclientName $Subclient -EntityType VM -Entity $VMName in case of errors $aaa is just null, despite on “INFO” showing: INFO: Get-CVVirtualMachine: virtual machine not found having name [xxxxx]INFO: PrepareContentBodyJson: virtual machine GUID not found for entity [xxxxx]INFO: Add-CVVirtualMachine: entity not found for add/remove virtual machine request Thanks

Hi,We have PostgreSQL server (Linux on VM) with DB ~7TB in size. We would like to have only full (or better  full+ inc combination) backup done once per day to be able to restore whole DB only to time of backup.That environment is probably to huge for streaming backup (dump or FS), so we would like to use block-level-backup.BLB requires WAL logging enabled and during snap backup additional log backup job is running automatically.It looks like snap backup is consistent because it quiesce DB and put into backup mode, make snap and run DB further. So it looks like in that case logs are not required during restore.We don’t want run log backup because that DB generates ~0,5TB  logs every hour and, if WAL enabled we need to run additional log backups hourly to delete logs from WAL directory (it takes about 40 minutes every hour). Additionally it requires a lot of space on LOG disklibrary,Is there any way to run PostgreSQL BLB FSBased backups without log backup? regards,Przemek

HiWe are currently implementing Commvault in a Huawei Cloud Stack (version 8.1.1) environment to run backups for different workloads. Please advise on the Commvault requirements to ensure a working solution. 

We are in the processes of upgrading a number of our servers.  They are virtual and the Drives lay on our SAN.  Currently we create a new server with the same name but B like 15B.  When we go to replace the old server they change the names and then connect the Drives to the new server.  When our backups run, the first time even if they are Inc’s the do a full backup again.  So we are backing up for a few days because we need to pause during the day because it slows down the business to a crawl.  Is there a better way to do this, am I missing something that I should be doing.  The drives themselves are exactly the same.  I could understand if they were physical machines but its all virtual on the same SAN.  Maybe its just the way it is I just can’t imagine a huge company dealing with this, we are not a large company but this server alone is 10-15 TB worth of drives.  Any suggestions for best practice.  Thanks everyone

Hi! Can you share what would be the best setting for tape backup performance?Considering 1 tape drive, which multiplexing setting to chose? What should be into account? Which other settings? Hardware compression? Regards,Pedro

Hi All, Getting below error when running backup for Sybase database.               Error Code: [71:30]Description: Error while running a command on Sybase server :[Can't open a connection to site 'SYB_BACKUP'. See the error log file in the ASE boot directory. Can't open a connection to site 'SYB_BACKUP'. See the error log file in the ASE boot directory. Could not establish communication with Backup Server 'SYB_BACKUP'. Please make sure that there is an entry in Sysservers for this server, and that the correct server is running. DUMP DATABASE XP1 FULL is unable to clear the list of changed database pages. Future incremental dumps will be unnecessarily large until the next successful full DUMP DATABASE. ]

 Good morning,does anyone know if it is possible to list the properties (retentions) of the defined storage policy from the command line?RegardsDorothy

Hi All,Our organization is focusing on AI OPS as there next strategic move for better service delivery. We are currently evaluating the offerings from the different OEMs.Can someone shed some light in Commvault’s standpoint in the AI-ops implementation? How can we bring in AI in the current landscape which can help in improving the delivery of service? What are the service offerings and licenses involved (if any)?Regards, Kunwar Shashwat

Which Commservtable or view has the information about the current throughput and average throughputfor an actively running job , which we could find in the Job Controller. And what is the column name to get these details average throughput and current throughput for all the respective jobs in job controller.   For eg: the following Commserv view CommCellJobController only lists certain information like  

Hello,I am in the process of migrating to a new disk library. For all the Storage Policies I have created new corresponding copies for each site.The current Primary (1) and Synchronous (2) copies have a 30 day basic and 90 day full weekly retention configured.I now created 2 new copies but since I am writing to WORM storage I have configured the retention for both the new copies with 90 day basic retention. My issue is that not all the jobs are being copied. Only the first 4.The rest of the jobs have a status of “To be Copied & Disabled”. What does this mean?How can I get them automatically copied?Should I select the option “Pick for Copy” on all the required jobs? Thanks.Ignes  

Hello,I passed first exam of  “Commvault Professional Foundations” on November 2022,on 27/07/2023 I passed second exam “Professional Advanced” it’s been almost a month until today I haven’t received my course completion certificates.How long does the verification and certification procedure usually take?Thanks

Hello, TeamI have a environment where there are 3 sites; 1, 2 and 3. The Media agent in site one runs its jobs very fast while those in 2 and 3 are very slow. The scanning phase sometimes take up 2 1 hour for 200GB of data. The servers are Unix boxes and most of the jobs running are files system. The Media agents are also Unix boxes. Kindly help on how to get what the issue is

“”Error while backing up Oracle Database. Error Details [Online backup cannot be run while database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode.] i know that online backup is not possible if db ins nonarchive mode, what is procedure for offline backup , can commvault perfrom this what if we turn off non archive mode for initial backup and turn it on again

Hello,We run SQL server on VM’s on hyper-v.  Testing restore of master database to SQL instance; there doesn’t appear to be a way to do this through the web console, but the documentation states that this procedure would work for what we need:  Can anyone confirm restoring system databases requires the java console?  If not, can you point me in the right direction on the web gui?  I’m unable to find any advanced restore options alluded to above. Thank you - Chris

Hi Team, we have three hyper-scale appliance and same appliances connected with metallic cloud. Primary copy is in appliance disk and aux copy is going to metallic cloud. we have two DDB’s on appliance, aux copy is failing with below error. any inputs will be great.  157446 26727 08/09 12:32:51 703 LaunchGroupRemotePart2: SIDB_LAUNCH_AND_GET_PORT_RSP from machine [commbk01.carefree.local*commbk01.carefree.local*8400*8402] failed. Error [53090][The DDB device was not found.]157446 26727 08/09 12:32:51 703 ConnectGroupInternal: Cannot connect to SIDB Engine [4], Group [0] on machine [commbk01.carefree.local][commbk01.carefree.local*commbk01.carefree.local*8400*8402]. PortV4 [0], PortV6 [0]. Error [0x80070057:{CCvNetwork::Attach_RemotePort(1351)/W32.87.(The parameter is incorrect. (ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER.87))-Port passed is not valid. [0/0].}]157446 26727 08/09 12:32:51 703 Initialize: Cannot connect to SIDB engine with copy id [6] SIDBStoreId [4]. Error [Could not connect to the DDB pro

Hi,We use Commvault version 11.28.44. In BOL it states: “ An Azure storage account is no longer required for SharePoint agent restores.” (https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/18078_configuring_sharepoint_agent_for_office_365_01.html). However, when performing a restore, Commvault still asks for storage account details and I can’t submit the restore request. Am I something missing here?Thank you.

Hello All,The user is upgrading NetApp ONTAP from 9.7P9 to 9.9.1P16 on Saturday and needs clarification if this version is supported by Commvault V11 SP16.HPK192. It is true that 9.9.1P16 it is not listed as supported in the Commvault documentation (https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11_sp16/article?p=33744.htm).In view of the document being last updated a few years ago, could you please confirm if we extend support for the above-mentioned version. (Note: User is on NetApp ONTAP 9.7P9 which is also not listed in the documentation). Grateful for any help!

Does Commvault support tailing log backup?We have a customer who need that for one database I can’t find any options in Commvault for that.Do you have to run a script?

Hello, I am looking for the best solution for immutable copy of data built on Commvault in Azure. We have some configuration, but I would like to see what Commvault Community can propose. I am looking for few approaches: First copy of data is in local. Azure copy is working as DR site. Dedicated storage for Immutable in Azure per site (locally).  First copy of data is in local. Azure copy is working as DR site. Shared storage for Immutable in Azure per site (locally).In that both approach I would like to know about the cost and how to estimate decrease usage storage between dedicated - shared storage ? What will be the best storage configuration for that solution Deduplicated or Not-deduplicated?  Retention for Immutable is 14 days and 2 cycles. Storage usage for Immutable solution (Hot or Cool)?And I think the most important how to calculate cost for those solutions if I have only local backup solution in current state. Regards, Michal