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I am curious on who is running Commvault with a Linux Commserver. If you are what version Commvault are you running and how often are you having to upgrade/update?Thank you

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I would like to rebuild/replace our current v11 (.28.56) Command Center server (virtualised), that is running the Commcell Console and Command Center, as it running on Windows 2012 R2, which is about to be EOL from Microsoft. Is there an easy to follow procedure to do this, as I could not find anything in the Knowledge Documentation website. Ideally, I would like to build the new command server with the existing one still running, to avoid interrupting current backups, and loss of databases/jobs, etc. Is this easy to do?I will worry about the physical media server separately when the time comes.P.S. I had hoped to do an in-place Operating system upgrade on the existing VM, but Windows 2016 refused the Keep Files/apps option, most likely because the current Console is running SQL 2008.

Hello,I need to understand following for customer requirement of backing up their Virtual Machines running on VMware Esxi  on-premise datacenter, on to the AWS S3 storage:Does Commvault Backup and Recovery support backup of VM snapshots / images directly on S3?. If yes, Does it compress backup data before sending it to S3?. If not, than is there an option like AWS EBS or only file system level backup supported?. What is the normal compression ratio one can estimate upon enabling the compression?.Appreciate your help.RegardsPranav

Is there a easy way to query the count of waiting jobs similar to the Job Controller display? I am able to run the Jobs API request for each client but that takes a long time.

We would like to run a pre-backup script that freezes our IRIS database on a Red Hat EC2 instance, after the freeze is successful we would want to run an Intellisnap backup of that Red Hat EC2 instance and then once the backup completes, unfreeze the IRIS database. What is the best way to get Commvault  to orchestrate this process ? Thanks

Good morning, I have a client that is requesting a “Certificate of Data Destruction.” Is there any such thing within Commvault or something similar?

Hi,I have quite strange situation, we’ve intalled simpana 9 on an HPUX 11, first we’ve installed the with a firewalled envirnonment and it didnt work (it seems simpana 9 doesn’t like the firewall config)after that we’ve reintalled the agent with the firewall disabled on the client but the commserve stills tries to connect through the port 8403.Attaching to beta2rp*beta2rp*8400*8402 using XDR failed. Error:[0xE8090010:{CCvNetwork::Attach_RemoteServiceInternal(1693)} + {CCvNetwork::Attach_RemotePort(1400)} + {CCvNetwork::GetConnection(3272)} + {CSessionConnectionSocket::GetConnection(218)/EventMessage.0x09000010.9:16.(Remote machine [beta2rp]. The socket connect failed. Error returned [-1=Connection failed on spfpt01cmv01 with these errors: 1) Connect failed: Failed to connect fd=3324 to 172.20.192.162:8403: Connection refused; 2) Timed out waiting to be patched through a tunnel]. Check Network Connectivity.)}]20744 07/20/23 11:22:09 :CVSession attach to Remote Host beta2rp, Remote servi

Hello all, I have seen that Salesforce can be used to run restorative tests in a sandbox. Since Salesforce is outside the Commvault world. So an external provider. I would be interested if there is also an integrated variant to perform a restore into a sandbox. RegardsThomas

I’m using subclient ID to add a VM to a subclient.  I can’t find and example for this.  Does this json template from here actually work? https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/essential/49184_rest_api_post_subclient_properties.htmlI keep getting 400 Bad Requesthttps://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/essential/assets/features/rest_api/JSON/update_subclient_vm_template.json{ "newName": "", "subClientProperties": { "vmContent": { }, "vsaSubclientProp": { "useChangedTrackingOnVM": , "quiesceGuestFileSystemAndApplications": , "datastoreFreespaceCheck": , "datastoreFreespaceRequired": , "collectFileDetailsForSnap": , "collectFileDetails": } }, "association": { "entity": [{ "clientName": "", "subclientName": "", "backupsetName": "", "instanceName": "", "appName": "Virtual Server" }] }}

Install fails and retried numerous time.  The error in the logs ‘D:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentStore\Log Files\UpdateInfo.log’ is: ……...1304 5456 02/22 10:08:29 ###      Error: Failed to unzip G:\CV11.20 Extracted\Windows\BinaryPayload\LooseUpdates\CU40\BinaryPayload\tessdata.see to D:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentStore\\Temp\ExtractInstall_1304_1128. Error = -11304 5456 02/22 10:08:29 ###      Failed to unzip the binary archive file G:\CV11.20 Extracted\Windows\BinaryPayload\LooseUpdates\CU40\BinaryPayload\tessdata.see into D:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentStore\\Temp\ExtractInstall_1304_1128. Please make sure that update is not corrupt and enough space is available in the operating system temporary directory.1304 5456 02/22 10:08:29 ###      UpdateFilesAndRegistry failed. Error [Failed to unzip the binary archive file G:\CV11.20 Extracted\Windows\BinaryPayload\LooseUpdates\CU40\BinaryPayload\tessdata.see into D:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentStore\\Temp\ExtractInstall_1304_11

I am testing commvaults connection to Wasabi.My Wasabi test bucket is object locked, so Commvault can’t delete older data. To test a loss of commvault database I didn’t configure my commvault jobs to be worm protected.Consequentially, I was able to delete some jobs, although the data in the Wasabi bucket remains.I can’t seem to find the option in Commvault to scan the bucket for existing backups to reimport.Is this not available?

Hi, good morning.I did install Commvault Version 11.28.70 .Meantime on my Vcenter infrastructure I did create and install one Appliance Quantum VTL DXi 5000 Community Edition (this appliance it did develope on CentOS O.S.)Both servers are on the same network, I can ping the vtl without problems.I would like to know how can I make for connect/configure the VTL on my Commvault Environment.I did try without success to configure the same on the Commvault COmmand Center with the produce : Storage/Disk/Add. ecc. I did insert the information of the server( user and password ) but when I try to insert the path (the vtl appliance it’s on CentOS O.S. ) I can’t configure correctly the path.THanks in advance.Best regardsRicardo

I have noticed any time I change the subclient of a VM I am backing up via VSA, the last backup on the old subclient gains the yearly extended retention. Is there any way I can prevent this in the future, and is there any way I can bulk resolve this for all the previous VM backups that have this problem

When running Auxcopies I can watch a job over a sustained period and the streams will gradually decrease. If however I kill the job and resubmit I can see double the amount of streams in the job. Can someone please explain how new streams are added to Auxcopy Jobs, and is there benefit in killing some long running jobs and restarting them.

Greetings! So we’re needing to boot the 1-touch ISO such that it sees a Cisco VIC using Fiber.  I’ve injected the network drivers for Server 2016/19/22 into the boot.wim of a 11.24 WinPE 5.1 1-Touch recovery image, but no avail - the fiber nics aren’t seen.  I’ll move to the Win10 disk and try that - but has anyone else had any luck seeing the VICs in Cisco UCS? Best wishes! Mike

Greetings! So, the instructions at:https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/60435_adding_windows_drivers_for_nic_and_mass_storage_devices.html… state how to add drivers to a WinPE5 disk, which is only windows 8 compatible.  We’re obviously working mostly with servers and (at least in my case), there are no Windows 8 drivers available.  I’ve seen another note where the PE10 drivers uses Windows 2019 (it’s on the 1-touch download page in the store).  However, when trying to add those drivers, the only way I can seen to find is off a system with the filesystem agent installed and apparently only works with the PE5 disk as such:Where is the method to install updated drivers to PE10, if any?   I seem to have run into a disconnect here. =)Thank you for any help anyone can provide. 

Should we migrate all Windows Media Agents to Linux Media agent? is there any technical dependency in migrating all Media Agents to Linux Media Agents?What are the Pros and Cons of using only Linux Media Agents? 

Hi Team,Is it recommended to use Linux Media agents instead of Windows media agent from ransomware protection and security perspective ?Can we convert existing windows media agents to Linux easily ? If yes , what is the procedure .We are using UNC sharing(double slashes or backslashes) of mount paths between windows media agents , How can we achieve such sharing of mount paths in case on Linux media agents ?Regards, Mohit

Hello,Dears all,I am trying to performe migration of physical linux machine to VMware virtual machine using the commvault. I am using the Virtualize me options, and for this operation i’ve enabled 1-touch recovery in the source machine and a sucessfully backup.For some reason after a successfully restore of System state backup, this error appears in the screen.  but these file initrd.img is a content of the defaultBackupSet  I’m using commvault version 11.24 and the machine use ubuntu 18 as operating system. Please help me to solve this issue.

I’m currently testing the automatic VM Validation Feature and so far it looks good.The only thing I’m wondering is if there’s an option to send a mail/report with the results of the validation.Since we could use this to automate VM Backup validations and as some “evidence” for auditing purposes, this would be incredibly helpful.In the Job Details in the Command Center it shows the different phases and whether or not it was successful, but I don’t want to have to check manually.Is that possible?

With a Tape Library of 8 Drives, I wanted to force the Tape Aux Copy  to a single Drive        This will be for only one Storage Policy XYZ (out of 30 or so SP’s)        and for only  a single Storage Policy Copy ABC (within SP XYZ) There are multiple Tape Storage Pools set up   eg POOL-N, POOL-O, POOL-P,   … POOL-X Storage Policy Copy ABC used POOL-XI had hoped that setting the Device streams to 1, but this still results in multiple drives being used  If I run a manual AUX Copy, for Storage Policy XYZ, for copy ABC and set the number of readers to 1, that works fine - as I’ve limited the stream to 1 ‘at the source’’, meaning there can never be more than 1 stream at the target - and therefore 1 tape used I could create new AUX Schedules an change the AUX Job options for just that schedule and apply that schedule to to just the AUX Copies where I want to use a single DriveBut that will be messy I could also limit the stream to 1 (combine stream)  on the disk source copy that then feeds

Hi Commvault gurus! Since we changed the deduplication setting from 'on Client' to 'on Media Agent' for Virtual Server Backups, we have noticed a significant increase in backup speed, roughly three times faster. I have a few questions to clarify this topic. Firstly, does 'deduplication on Client' refer to deduplication on the Virtual Server Agent (proxy), even when using SAN mode? In SAN mode, the data should be sent directly from one datastore (storage array) to another without involvement from other backup devices, correct? Similarly, for NDMP backups, where does the 'deduplication on Client' occur? I found a useful thread discussing this topic (see below), but I would appreciate explicit answers to my questions." 

All, what is best practice for the SQL install when deploying CommServe? If I were deploying a high performance SQL installation I would typically put OS, SQL DB, SQL Logs, Temp DB all on separate disks (not partitions on same disk). Is this best practice, desirable or even do-able with CommServe?

HelloI have in place many Intellisnap backups and every backup (Netapp snapshot) is replicated onto a secondary Netapp with Snapvault.Now I must replace the current secondary Netapp with a new one maintaining all the current backups (snapshots) on the new secondary NetappWhat is the best approach ?RegardsFederico