Commvault Cloud Topics

Hello everyone,I'm planning to upgrade my Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2016, which currently has Commvault 11.24 installed. It also hosts SQL Server 2012. Could anyone provide guidance on the compatibility of Commvault with Windows Server 2016 and whether it's necessary to update SQL Server before the upgrade? I appreciate any advice or experiences you can share.Thank you.

There is a requirement in our AWS environment to perform Backups of the Elasticsearch nodes.  From what I have read, CV does not actually support that and the recommendations are to use the Elasticsearch imbedded snapshots and from there we CV could backup up from the S3 buckets.“Elasticsearch has consistency requirements that span the whole cluster. You must use the built-in snapshot functionality for cluster backups.”Is this still true?  Are there other ways to perform backups using CommVault? ThanksChuck 

Hello Community, after migrate to V2 VSA for VMware with v2 migration workflow, I observed that certain VM clients are linked with the VSA agent, while other clients do not exhibit this association. though all of clients are part of the VSA backup . In the "Client Properties" section, specifically within the "Virtual Machine Properties" tab, the "Virtualization Client Name" directs to the V2 VSA pseudo client  below screenshot has vm and agent level backup but  VSA agent is not linked to it, the "Virtualization Client Name" refers to the V1 VSA pseudo client. It seems that the V2 VSA agent is exclusively visible in new

i have 3 Filer client and a media agent al three on the same swtich no firewall or router.all filer have subclient.one filer have 8 subclient and backup copy are not working on two of the subclient give below error.Error Code: [39:501]Description: Client [XYZ03] was unable to connect to the tape server [ABC123] on IP(s) [10.0.0.34] port [54719]. Please check the network connectivity.Source: ABC123, Process: NasBackup  

According to the documentation, you can delete a network storage pool and when you delete a network storage pool, the software automatically deletes the library associated with it and the data in the library will be lost. URL: https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/9138_deleting_network_storage_pool.htmlI got a little confused. does the software automatically deletes the library associated with it and the data in the library will be lost or do I need to retire the mount path as It contains dedup data?Anyway, what happens to the data that is in the cloud? Commvault will prune the data?     

Constantly getting the error below on two HP UX boxes. CvFwd.Log582 0001 08/09 07:54:34 ######## ######## ERROR: cvfwd_get_refresh_socket(): Failed to bind refresh socket: Can't assign requested address  Job Error:Error Code: [19:1304]Description: Failed to connect to Communications Service to register the process. They were originally both older Clients 11 SP 6. Went to upgrade to SP30 and now jobs stopped running. Check readiness runs fine but get error above and Filesystem and Oracle jobs will not run. I have a One Way from Client to Commserve setup. 

The GET V2 MediaAgents API has some numeral codes for offlineReason and Status which seem to reflect some different senarios.  I have seen 0, 1, 2, and 5.  Usually there is documentation coving these things but I not finding it in the online documentation.  Do we have a link to this info?{            "offlineReason": 0,            "description": "",            "status": 1,            "mediaAgent": {                "mediaAgentId": 2,                "_type_": 11,                "displayName": "dm2perf3",                "mediaAgentName": "dm2perf3"            },            "osInfo": {                "osId": 210,                "OsDisplayInfo": {                    "OSName": "Windows Server 2016 Datacenter"                }            },            "versionInfo": {                "UpdateStatus": 0,                "GalaxyBuildNumber": "11",

Hi Team,Just want check the configuration of Mailbox Backup. We have two media agent servers and the exchange version is 2016. Please advise the configuration of Mailbox backup jobs.Is it Outlook on those media agent servers and will use access nodes. And any disk limitation for Indexing (each media agent). - approx. 300 Mailboxes. Any license is needed for this backup from Commcell level (no archiving). Where will create the sub clients for mailbox jobs (either Exchange or media agents).

Hi,since 07/08, the auto discover no longer works for us.I see the following message in the AdMonitorMailbox.log:and in the CvRCreator.log the following error message:if (Get-Command 'Enable-OrganizationCustomization' -errorAction SilentlyContinue) { $currentErrorAction = $ErrorActionPreference; $ErrorActionPreference = 'silentlyContinue'; Enable-OrganizationCustomization; $ErrorActionPreference = $currentErrorAction }0000 0001 07/09 12:24:40 ### Exception in PowerShell script: 'System.Management.Automation.ActionPreferenceStopException: The running command stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common par

I have a question about the commvault commserve service account. Which group is required to create and use an account that is used by default as an account that is part of the administrators group, but is not part of the administrators group, but is used for the commvault service? Or do I need a local system account that belongs to the administrators group? -windows group list- 

I've seen several discussions regarding this topic. But I still don't get it. From the docs:Application Size: The size of the data that needs to be backed up from a client computer. Application size is not always identical to the size reported by file or database management tools.Data Written: New data written on media by each backup job.Size on Media: Size of deduplicated data written on the media. Consider the following real job:Job 1 (deduped disk lib is the destination): App Size: 33.4TBData Written: 24.93Size on Media: 7.30 1st question: what is the total size occupied by this job in the dedup disk lib?2nd question: is data written size, before dedup? Does it account for sw compression only? both?3rd question: is size on media just the size of unique blocks for the job (disregarding the baseline

Hi all  we have a metallic setup where we have decreased our VM usage but in the usage stats it still shows historic and current VM setups which has blown our usage out - it shows that we have 30 VM when we only have 8Is there any way we can correct this 

​I was testing a database restore (DB is in full recovery) and noticed that the PITR graph wasn’t showing continuity.I checked the server and we still had an old logshipping job which was grabbing the logs and backing up to disk before commvault could get them..  We currently use database mirroring which doesn’t have any jobs associated with it. I disabled the job and ran a full database backup from Commvault,  expecting that our default 15 minute log backups would start afterwards, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.  I’ve taken a manual log backup in Commvault, but it’s still not getting picked up by the regular schedule. Any thoughts on how to resolve this?  The default client run completed at 3:01 pm and backed up every log *except* this database, which I had to do manually. Thanks- Chris​

Hello, guys  I want to perform a secondary copy to tape, and be able to write the data to tow tapes at once, Same data must be written to tow different tapes that belong to two different pools (main pool and copy pool). The idea is to be able to have mirroed data on tapes that will be stored on different sites (customer policy). Data must be read once from primary store (source) and write at same time to diferent tapes.Customer has a library with 3 drives. Any idea?Regards.  

Hello,What is the Commvault recommendation for the RMAN compression setting? Consider we have backup to deduplicated disk. And compression is enabled on commvault side also. regards,Pedro

Quick question: customer has an audit and is required to document the steps taken to secure the commcell. One thing is the media password. It can be set, it can be changed and you need of course to write it down… BUT: is there some way to report IF a media password is set or not (for the auditor). Would fit perfectly in the Security assessment tile in the CC.The only way I see is actually changing the password - if “enter old password” is left blank and new password is applied, you didn’t have one. Which is not a reportable solution.Thanks.

Hello, I am trying to investigate an issue going on in our environment where a stakeholder is asking us to audit our environment and what is being backed up. I am starting to look into their servers and notice on a couple of servers in the most recent full  and see several mount points are listed but some of the mount points show no data, this is what I was suspecting. However, some of the mount points are showing data and it appears that it was able to backup the data in this mount point. Looking into why Commvault was able to backup some mount points but not others?  Does it matter what type of protocol the storage array is  using  - CIFS or NFS to be able to be backed up? Thanks for any info or documentation you can provideCody  

From NetApp, volumes are mounted on Linux OS as NFS & we are taking file level backup for this NFS volumes.Recently we upgraded NetApp ONTAP version to 9.12, after that we are getting below error.1203298 125c62 08/24 22:38:08 793760 ClBackupFile::SendHeader(9172) - getacl( /Remote-Nfs-share/efeap/data/497/upload/bilextrn-20220218 ) failed, errno 524. Unable get xattr information on file '/Remote-Nfs-share/efeap/data/497/upload/bilextrn-20220218'. unable get list of xattr, Unknown error 524 CommCell version: 11.28.78Linux OS: RHEL 8.4NFS protocol used: 4.1 & 4.2 If anyone has faced this issue & had a solution than please share.

Hello, everyone!This post is mostly intended to provide a search result in the event someone comes across the same issue I did. If this type of post is not allowed please forgive me. While trying to perform a Live Mount for a VMware VM being backed up via a connected vCenter environment, the job was failing with error description “Live Mount is supported by VMware VMs only.” Naturally I was confused because the backed up VM was in-fact a VMware VM. Googling yielded no results, hence this post. The cause was rather simple: the job was just failing because an existing backup job was still running. Even though the VM itself was already finished being backed up, the parent job was still running on another VM. The solution was to just wait for the entire backup job to complete. I hope this helps keep someone from panicking in the future!

Hi,we use Virtual Server Agent and we backup with the default sublient our VMWARE VMs.Is it possible afterwards to carry out a second copy only for an explicit VM?Or is that only possible if I create a backup before and using a separate subclient ??RegardsDennis

Hello,I start working recently with CommVault and I have a lot of alerts “No Backup for last 7 days”. Since the machines are been removed from VMWARE why they alert still appear??Any idea how stop those alerts… Thanks, Christos

Hello All,We have some legacy Storage Policies that were using an OCUM server for snapmirror relationship.This OCUM server were lost, no longer used, and were destroyed. (not reachable)I cannot delete Storage Policies because CS is waiting until all OCUM relationship in database are  cleaned.In log i notice theses lines : leStorageServicePruneResponse [  ]  Threshold to cleanup OCUM server entities from the database when OCUM server is not reachable is set to [30] days.21904 34a4  08/23 15:51:05 -------  MLMSnapInfo::handleStorageServicePruneResponse [  ]  Failed to delete SMRelationId[104], SMRelationNodeId[22], ExtRelationId[69578], ExtRelationName[CommCell-sreublc208_SP-75_Copy-245], ExtRelationNodeId[2].21904 34a4  08/23 15:51:05 -------  MLMSnapInfo::handleStorageServicePruneResponse [  ]  Failed to delete SMRelationId[103], SMRelationNodeId[21], ExtRelationId[69577], ExtRelation

I’ve configured in storage dts in read/write,m but when i tried to restore in transport mode SAN, we have problems and i received this error, i hope someane can help me please.Thank you. 

We have vmware and oracle PCA VM clients. Is there any way we can setup LiveSync?Additionly linux and windows filesystem replication is also need to setup. Any document would be appreciated. 

Hi Team,We have 3 CommCells registered/uploading to cloud.commvault.com but would like to see only one (our prod) in Cloud Command as the other two are are used for test/dev and not relevant to us from reporting perspective (no one is worried about backup failures in dev but it affects the reported environment score). Any ideas?Thanks