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Hello. Volumes were combined on the storage, the size of the two volumes became more than 50 tb. And now, out of 8 volumes, 2 volumes are not running full backups and even increments are not starting. Job starts, but progress stands still. 

Hello, What is the best way to backup NFS export presented by EMC VNX Storage ?

I’m Looking to create an aux copy to an AWS S3 bucket from ON Prem hyperscalers.  What are best practices in terms of enabling WORM on the bucket?  Is there anything that needs to be done with the ddb on the hyperscalers in terms of operations/maintenance?  Thanks.

An edge condition was found when performing a file-level restore of a virtual machine using the Virtual Server Agent, the Access or Proxy Node may reboot due to the CVVD.sys driver that loads the backup data for browsing.The following versions are affected:FeatureRelease 22.42 to 22.49 FeatureRelease 23.29 to 23.34 FeatureRelease 24.15 to 24.20 FeatureRelease 25.0 to 25.2Some common symptoms are the CVD log will flood with NULL values and the following error will be reported for the browse on the media agent.Failed to receive browse response from MediaAgent. Please check Browse.log on MediaAgent.The Browse log on the media agent and\or access node (VSA Proxy) may indicate the following:CCvNetwork::CheckIfDataAvailable() - Thread is waiting for data on a socket. Waited for 600 sec(s). Requested wait time = no time out. Connection details : The CVVD challenge is addressed with the latest maintenance releases when applied to the Virtual Server Proxy or Access Node. These can be downloaded

Hi All, I have some question about Commvault on Alicloud.Currently, all my CommServe, media agent and clients are On Prem. As i plan to do restoration for my On Prem backup to Alicloud ECSI have done create Proxy VM at Alicloud ECS.Next, i wish to know what port should be open in order my On Prem data able to restore to Alicloud ECS. And which server need to open those port.    

Hello, We are getting slow throughput for VMware backups using intellisnap. Around 150 gb per hour with 5 readers.Data store is on NetApp and VSA/Media agent is VM.It is currently using NBD transport mode.Can hotadd or another transport mode be used and will that be faster? Is there any other best practice? 

Just looking for good ideas here.

Often we see cases where Check Readiness is failing or backups failing due to communication issues. Whether these clients be Media Agents, VSA Proxies, Exchange servers or Linux FS.This article will cover common issues that, we, as support frequently come across in tickets that are raised.Check readiness is a simple tool that can be run from the CommCell or Command Center that does a network check to ensure that the Commvault Ports are opened and listening.The first things we want to check:Are Commvault services running on client? Is DNS resolving? Are the required ports opened? Is Windows firewall enabled? First, we want to check to see if the Commvault Services are running on the client. Without the services running, check readiness will fail by default because there is no service/process running that will be listening.Windows File System: Open "Commvault Process Manager" and go to the "Services" tab. Here you will see a green play button if they are running. Linux File System: type

Hello Team, We are configuring Exchange 2019 DB backup, while running backup it's showing an VSS related errors.The exchange DAG is configured IP less and without DNS feature. While adding DAG client in commcell is successfully added and discover DB also with out any issue. We checked DAG client check readiness, its showing communication error. Please advise any specific configuration needed for DAG IP less feature.

Hi all.Just wanted to share here that although Okta is not officially supported we have been able to get it work for 2FA as a basic Other standalone time-based PIN. We set 2FA against a group and then place users in one at a time. I wrote a couple of docs about it if anyone would like the details.  

I am backing up a fairly large NFS volume off a Netapp using the network share for NAS method.  There are a mix of large files and many small files.  Is it normal for a full backup to take several days (3-4) to complete?  How can I improve the speed? Currently I have a Linux Media Agent that is configured as the data access node.  Would performance increase if I add additional access nodes?

Hi, I am still learning about commVault and I am trying to fix an issue with a Commvault > CloudApps job which have three buckets as Subclient. Two S3 buckets are backing up ok and the other one getting errors in the specific job history some times [82:129] and some times [19:583] Description: Another backup is running for client [Custom_AWS_S3], iDataAgent [Cloud Apps], Backup Set [defaultBackupSet], Subclient. I don’t know its anything to do with the credentials used for the S3_EU region but the client readiness checks saying “ready”. I am still struggling to find why two buckets backing up using the same IAM credentials? So why just one bucket backup task is failing for the job. Please give me some insight into it. ThanksSuj 

When creating workflows or reports you need to refer CSDB directly.If you can find out appropriate views or examples (in this community for instance), this would be helpful.But most of the cases there's no clue to identify the whereabouts of the data which you need to retrieve, this is a technique how to find out the data from CSDB.Suppose you want to identify the table location of subclient entry like: First prepare for "Full-text search" on CSDB using this kind of technique:Search all tables, all columns for a specific value SQL Server [duplicate], this query can search all tables for specific text, I'm creating this query as stored procedure for convenience and pass some literals to find out.Next, you should create easily-to-search text like:Then search entire CSDB using the query above, results like this:Bingo, the subclient content must be stored in a table named APP_ScFilterFile .There should be some knowledge to exclude unnecessary information, for instance, 3rd one indicates Au

Similar to this article, I'd like to show simple queries to retrieve DDB information from CSDB.Important note: do not modify CSDB data and modules, just use READ operations only.Also pleaseTo keep your activities safe you need to keep uncommitted read from any table as one of the following techniques:use CommServ -- just for convenience-- place the following at the top of any queryset transaction isolation level read uncommitted;-- place with(nolock) statement in each table referenceselect * from APP_Application with(nolock)Most of the DDB information is stored in tables started with Idx, for configuration of DDB is stored mainly the following 3 tables, first one is for DDB information, latter 2 for partitions:select * from IdxSIDBStoreselect * from IdxSIDBSubStoreselect * from IdxAccessPathTo combine this, including which MA is in use for each partition, like the following:select store.SIDBStoreName as 'DDB Name' ,apc.name as 'MediaAgent' ,ap.Path as 'Partition path'from Id

You might have heard that CommCell views are an easy way to start building your own custom reports. While you can use any table from the CommServe database to create a data set for a new report, the data that you see in those tables doesn’t always make sense to a human. CommCell views are saved queries of the CommServe database, and they are available in every CommServe installation by default. These views display human-readable information from the database so you can find information that’s relevant to the report you’re trying to create.Preview Data in SQL Server Management StudioYou can run CommCell views and see the results using SQL Server Management Studio, which is installed along with the CommServe software on the CommServe computer. There are many CommCell views, so if you just want to look at everything that’s available, SQL Server Management Studio is a good place to start. Log on to your CommServe computer. Click Start > Programs > Microsoft_SQL_Server_version > SQ

Hi Team, I had just added new SQL server into Commvault but while scheduler job is running i am getting below error Description: Failed to validate the credentials for instance [<instance name>]. Please make sure the provided user [c<username>] has the sysadmin role.

Hi team,I am getting below error when job scheduler is running  Unable to communicate with the remote machine [zewpgtssvcvma01.corp.pri] to start the Data Pipe. Please check the network connectivity between the local machine and the remote machine and verify this product's Communications Service is running on the remote machine. Source: zewpgtsdbpa01, Process: SQLiDA

8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### GetFromUsersPropDB() - Enter8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### GetFromUsersPropDB() - Exit8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### ::processAdUser() - Blobsize returned from processSSORequest = [0], dwErr=[0xc000019b]8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### ::processAdUser() - Unexpected return code [0xc000019b] from processSSORequest8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### ::processAdUser() - error not retrieved from formatMessageA(..)8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### EvSecurityMgr::userLogin() - processAdUser returned [-1], "error not retrieved from formatMessageA(..)"8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### EvSecurityMgr::userLogin() - Socket [0x0000000000004028]: Database error [-1/].8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### ::sendResponse() - FAILED [DataBase Error.]8332  18a0  05/05 11:06:42 ####### handleLoginOperations() -  Encrypted Login Failed.Browser Session Id [1005]8332  6310  05/05 11:06:43 ####### dropConnection() - Socket [0x0000000000004028]: Closing Browser Sess

I am completed a setup of CV failover and configured Livesync. the logshipping backup was successful and replication to standby CV is also successful. Then trying to perform failover to standby CV. During CV failover process the operation is failing due to Connecting to the database failed - error returned was Login failed for user sqladmin_cv.Then I tried to reset the password of sqladmin_cv from SQL Server management studio but still failed to complete the failover due to login.Would anyone has an idea on how to fix the issue?

This a common topic that comes up with prospects and even Commvault customers, so posting by “Why” response here.Start here: http://commvault.com/office-365 and on Microsoft’s website: https://www.microsoft.com/commvault In a single sentence: “You don’t depend on the Recycle Bin for data protection on your servers, do you? This is basically what Microsoft offers with Office/Microsoft 365.” While the “Recycle Bin” can be used to recover items, for Exchange Online (EXO) it requires 30+ steps and OneDrive & SharePoint Online (SPO) only provides easy recovery of mass unexpected changes for the last 30 days. Furthermore, the max retention for EXO is 30 days and OneDrive & SharePoint is 93 days. In all three, recovering involves many steps and folder structure is normally lost. With Commvault, a few clicks can restore data quickly with folder structure kept intact.Furthermore, the data can be retained in Commvault for any retention required and data recover can easily be delegated to

Hi,We are planning to upgrade our commvault software version 11.20.46 to the latest 11.26.x (If still supported). Below are our inquiry. If our active Capacity license can cover to perform or assist us on the upgrade by the help of CV Support team? Under Commcell Environment Upgrades documentation, we can see a lot of information's about the upgrade and procedures. Being new to this backup software this cause confusion. Is there a way to provide a specific upgrade procedure base from our current setup/environment including compute requirements? (see our current Commcell environment below) Other component that need to upgrade and procedure as wellOur Commcell Environment:Commvault software version 11.20.46 Target version is 11.20.26 we have a CVFailover in our CommCell environment. Mixed hypervisor VMware, RHOSP, RHV to backup virtual machine Backup of Client application Oracle, Oracle RAC, MSSQL, MySQL, Kubernetes Let me know if I missed some info that is important to the upgrade. Appr

Hi  i want to install remote push installation of client so kindly help to install the same on all user matachin 

Cyberthreats, specifically ransomware, continue to be a top risk and top of mind for customers. It is a challenge for all of us. We must protect against threats, monitor our environment, and stay recovery ready. To help ensure you are covered, we are sharing 10 best practices to protect your data against a cybersecurity event. @Zack Brigman, Metallic’s Sr. Manager for Product Marketing and @Phil Wandrei, Commvault’s Principal Solutions Marketing Manager, collaborated to share the key tactics and best practices across Metallic and Commvault.Check out the full blog post at at the link below, and leave us any questions or areas you want to hear more about in the replies.  

Hi There,I am getting issue on Linux Manual installation here is screenshot of the error https://prnt.sc/mOLMbaY38-n7 I have already open the port 139,135,445,8400,8403, and disable the firewall as wellShow less 

Hi.. With MS SQL we can set the account used for connecting to SQL on a group level….. Any idea on how to do the same for DB2? This seems to involve some scripting which I suck at… (unless it starts with an @echo off) :-) Our DB2 team is considering creating a single DB2 user for all DB2 servers/ instances to be used by CLVT… This user will have its password changed on an often basis, but we do not want to traverse every single DB2 server /instance to change the password.. .(we’ve got quite a few) Any idea/ solution would be highly appreciated :-)  Thank you..  Kind regardsRubeck