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oracle incremental backup is taking longer time to finish , upon the checking the event we got the event says to enable the block change tracking, we have some dependencies to enable it,is there any way to speed up the incremental backup or better to run full backup daily.  

Hi Team,Currently our commserve is configured on Vcenter Virtual Machine. We are planning to configure the commserve in high availability.Please suggest which is best way to configure the commserve in high availability. 1.Microsoft Cluster2.commserver Livesync3.Any other option?   Version: 11.24.103

Hi All, maybe you can help us.  During an human error the option: DDB horizontal scaling threshold number of subclients per DDB 1  was set to 1. This cause last night  DDB [xyz] crossed number of subclients threshold hence created a new DDB [xyz] for adding new Subclients.  Now we have 2 DDBs   So what happen is that all new subclients will be run against the ID:44 and all old one deduplicated against ID:41  This happend also for another engine.  The new created id is actually empty. Sealing did not help. also we tried: qoperation agedata -delbystoreid -sid 44 ft Q_DATA_LOG Actually running support case does also have no idear if and how can this ddb can be deleted.  The problem is that we dont have enoug space in metallic cloud for running in baseline. thanks for your help

Good Day to all!I am facing the issue on Auxcopy job. The incremental backup size is only 15 TB and we have good copy upto 6th August, 2023 but when the auxcopy job is triggered it is showing 251 TB need to be copied.Recently we have upgraded the Maintenance release from 11.24.112 to 11: 24.116 on 6th August, 2023 Kindly suggest 

Hello, I have a DASH copy from the Prod site to the DR site. The DDUP partition on the DR site appears to be running out of space, so the Aux copy has been stopped. What should I do to resume the auxiliary copy? I can’t add more space.Thanks 

Hi,i have a question about the implementation of some VSA proxy in hotadd mode only on vmware VSAN.it is really needed to open network port 902 between VSA proxy and ESX host ? can we only open port 902 between Vcenter / media agent /vsa ?in my undestanding the port 902 is only use in NBD/NBDSSL mode as a fallback mode when other transport mode are not available.regards,Christophe

Hi All, We have database configured in Availability Group and we have configured backup in Commvault with availability group name. Is it possible to run to run Full and Differential and Tlog backup from Secondary node.We have selected the prefer backup option as secondary are as Secondary Node in SQL Studio Management  but as per my thinking only tlog will run from secondary Node.Please let me can Commvault run all backups from Secondary Node of Availability Group.If yes how to configure it.

If i understand correctly Changed Block Tracking is not supported when taking VM backups in a Citrix environment?Backups for Citrix Xen (commvault.com) When a virtual machine disk for a Xen virtual machine is backed up, the entire disk is read for allocated blocks, for both full and incremental backups. Can anyone confirm? I was thinking that CBT will greatly improve the backup speed. Thank you!

Hello,I am trying to create workflow for VM backup and restore.I have used predefined workflow Demo_FileSystemBackupRestore and tried to modify it for VM.Everything goes fine until it gets to restore phase where I get Error 0x303: Q_VIRTUAL_SERVER iDataAgent is not supported by this command.Thanks for any suggestions,Michal

Hello Commvault Community,We had a problem with "point in time" replication between two physical Windows servers. A group that has been defined in Command Center is not visible in CommCell Console (you can see the RP store, but nothing in the Data Replication monitor).Recovery data (latest recovery) works without problems - the backup is on the second volume, but in the "point in time" I can't overwrite checkpoint on the target volume. There is no way to select another client to save a copy of the volume (can’t select the resource).  How to do it correctly? What needs to be done to make it possible to select a resource?Regards,Michał

i saw the below note while enabling randsomware on hyperscal nodes  once you initialize and deploy the hyperscale , disk libraries are already mounted on media agents right ? also after rebooting the node we ran the sestatus command ,we can see permissible instead of enforcing is that okay ?

 Hi All,We are backing up SQL server as an AWS EC2 instance. There was change were done in which SQL server EC2 instance replaced with new EC2 instance with same name and data. From our end we released the Commvault license and when Commvault was installed onto the new EC2 instance by default client for with we have released the license should get Commvault license and should be showing up. But this don’t happen and new client with same name was created. Please help me to know why new client with same name was created.From my end we missed that the new EC2 server will be created with new OS. Old EC2 has 2012 and new has 2016.Request you to please help me to fix the issue. 

We had to configure backup for new NDMP servers. Backups are running fine on the start but then go into pending state at some point with error:Error Code: [39:501]Description: Client [stpbdedck8s001] was unable to connect to the tape server [swfjdedcba203] on IP(s) [10.100.226.93] port [59022]. Please check the network connectivity.Source: swfjdedcba203, Process: NasBackup  

HelloLooking for anyone who has used Commvault together with Snapvault and would like to know some best practices. I have used both Intellisnap and snapvault in the past but not together.Here is the setup (which was setup before I joined the company). The environment consists of 2 primary AFF and one seconday FAS for the snapvault. All backups are handled with snapshots, so no data is actually sent to the MA or a library. Commvault is only the orchestrator for snapvault and provides vCenter integration through VSA proxy.Plans are in use, and ESX datastores are added to the plansBackup workflow: VSA Proxy tells vCenter to do vmware application consistent snapshot, then the Array MA send commands to Netapp array to create snapshot. Vcenter then removes vm-snapshot and Commvault considers the backup job complete.Backup copy is disabled on the storage policy, otherwise it created a snapclone from the snapshot and mounted it as a datastore and backed up the VM’s through nbd to the MA and di

Hello fellow Commvault users,I have a question regarding the upgrade of Commvault from v10 to v11 while also migrating from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2016. I am seeking to determine the best course of action for this process.Option 1:Start by formatting the server and upgrading it to Windows Server 2016. Perform a Disaster Recovery to restore Commvault v10 after the OS upgrade. Finally, proceed with the upgrade to Commvault v11.Option 2:First, update Commvault v10 to v11 while the server is still running on Windows Server 2012. Once the Commvault upgrade is complete, format the server and update it to Windows Server 2016. After the OS migration, recover Commvault using the Disaster Recovery process.I would greatly appreciate your input and feedback on which option you believe is the most efficient and reliable for upgrading Commvault and migrating the OS. If any of you have faced a similar situation or have alternative suggestions, please share your thoughts.Thank you all i

Hi Team, We have a very large, Infinite retention Storage Policy, associated to Storage Pool “Pool1”.It has grown to the point, that we will soon be creating another Storage Pool and Storage Policy. Let’s call these Pool2. All clients from Pool1 will be migrated to Pool2, so Pool1 will stop receiving any fresh data, since Pool2 will start receiving it all. The question I have is around the massive, leftover DDB’s from Pool 1. They are 2 x 1.8 TB and are hosted on the two Media Agents associated with Pool1. Since Pool1 will stop receiving data, I am keen to decommission the Pool1 Media Agents - noting that the Secondary-copy Cloud-based backup data can be accessed from a number of Media Agents and so it does not necessarily have to be the Pool1 Media Agents. It can be any Media Agents, provided they are mapped to the relevant Cloud Library Mount Points. So the questions I have are :- 1 -  What do we do with these large, legacy DDB’s?      I understand we need to keep for Commvault Sync

Hello!Could you say pleas, if is it possible to export/import some backup from commvault? So that I could use it later without source commvault, by importing backup it to different commvault environment or using some native restore tools of restored application. 

Hi,I have a question regarding the Graph API permissions for the Azure application that needs to be configured.It’s related to this topic:Azure Application API Permissions for M365 Services | Community (commvault.com) Why is it necessary for Commvault to retrieve user list and licenses? And assign the application Directory.Read.All permission?  During my testing, I managed to run a backup from a SharePoint Online site without this permission assigned. However, when attempting to restore back to the SharePoint Online site, it fails. In the Azure Storage account, I can see some items appearing under the container during the restore, but they are deleted after a short while. In the log from the Commvault application server I see the following error message:Error decrypting password.  Is this error related to missing API permission? Or is it something else? The storage account is set up as descripted in documentation.  

The auditors want to see if my backups are encrypted and I’m not sure where to go in the CommVault GUI to show that.  I don’t see anything about encryption in the properties for my storage libraries or my storage policies.  Where do I show whether or not my backups are encrypted?Ken

Hi,Trying to find out the directory structure that Commvault creates in S3 Compatible cloud Storage.I created a VM backup from VMware and got the below Directory in S3 Compatible : Does V_1​ , V_11 mean different backup attempts? What is the difference between the below folder structure?​​​​​​Is it something configurable from Commvault Software?

I have a library with 2x LTO drives that is used for some direct to tape jobs and for aux copies of some disk jobs.Ideally what I’d like is for both LTO drives to be free to aux copy data but if another job runs that needs a drive for the aux copy to throttle back down to using one drive.So for example right now I have 50TB of data to aux copy that is going to a single drive when it could go to both drives (I’ve got them so why not use them) except if I set the aux copy to do that it seems that any new backup jobs to tape pause with “no resources available”.Thanks 😀

Hello team, Customer asks if we can encrypt network traffic when communicates in a commcell.customer doesn’t want to encrypt the backup data but configure to be encrypted for all traffic/packet among tiers. (CS, MA, client) for instancewhen try to do a push installation from CS to client.when request some tasks like backup, restore job. They need to encrypt all the packet due to security requirement.I searched and reviewed these BOLs but not sure if it will work for this customer.Could you happen to give me any advice? Encrypting Network Traffic at CommCell Level (commvault.com)Enforcing and Encrypting Automatic Tunneling (commvault.com) Which one is more recommended option for this customer? Thanks.

I have a customer that has some types of  auxiliary copies to cloud one is virtual machines and the second is logs He want to see how much virtual machines backup to cloud and what is the retention of the auxiliary copy to cloud He does not want to see all the clients in the report.  

hi, a customer of ours, wants to move off of all their office 2013 installation.but the access node they use cannot be updated as per commvault documentation:https://documentation.commvault.com/2023/essential/93789_microsoft_outlook_requirements_for_exchange_mailbox_for_on_premises_exchange_servers.html i know this had to do because of limitations with in the newer outlook versions.but as Microsoft it self will stop support, i see this becoming a problem for multiple customers. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/office-2013-ends-support-one-year can you let me know whether this is on the road map, or what commvaults solution will be for this? kind regards, Thos Gieskes. 

Hi Group, I’m hoping someone can help me out. We are trying to develop a script that can be ran on a client which will use a find command for specific files to create a list to be backed up and restored on another client using CLI or the cvc command. We are new to Commvault and were able to do this with TSM’s dsmc command.Any help or examples would be much appreciated. Thank you