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I’m slogging through a CV hardware upgrade. My company is “trying” to find $$ for training...but so far no joy, so I’m winging it.I have a new NetApp E2812, two new media agents, and a shiny Brocade FC switch to bind them all together.My immediate question is, do I create two volumes on the E2812 and mount one on each MA? Or can I create just one volume and let both MAs read/write to it simultaneously? Typically, sharing a volume like that across multiple Windows servers leads to trouble, but can the CV media agents handle that sharing?I like the idea of a single volume letting both MAs access all of the available disk space. That alleviates the need to balance my backups across the different volumes. Does anyone have any helpful pointers for me? Much obliged.
Hello Commvault Community,Looking at this thread, I understand that IndexServer copies for V2 indexing are not recommended to be copied to tape media.However, what if we have situations where there are certain jobs on the tape that are the only last ones left and block the possibility of recycling this tape media? I checked for this StoragePolicy and these tasks are on both DiskLibrary and TapeLibrary (we care about disposal of these tapes, where the last blocking task is the BigDataApps task). Can we safely delete them, being sure that it will not affect the ability to restore the data? I've also seen entries to do Media Refresh for tapes that also have this problem, but then what? What is the most sensible way out of this situation, right after disabling IndexServer backups to tapes (if I understand correctly, it is recommended to disable it, right?) I have attached some screenshots to help you understand the situation. Thanks for help,Kamil
Hi team, I’m conducting a PoC for MongoDB sharded cluster.Customer runs two shards and each shard has 3nodes. (1 primary and 2 secondary)We’ve installed plug-in on all 6 nodes and all configuration went well. For 1st shard, we performed the initial full backup without any option.For second shard,we performed the initial full backup with some option for better performance....… Backup performance is not bad in the beginning. (100-150MB/sec)Backup size of shard is 5TB and should be able to complete the job within 20hrs.So performance need to be higher than 80-100MB/sec at least. Backup server and Mongodb nodes spec is enough and resources are always available.But backup peformance is gradually degraded as time goes by and comes to 5-6MB/sec.We’ve never completed the initial backup due to this unexpected performance degradation.Mongodb data is on SSD and connected with 10Gb network for backup. CVLT version is 11.28 and also tried 11.26 but the same result.I’m sure that installation and set
Commvault Kubernetes Unable to write data to the Virtual Disk [mysql-pv-claim-second]. Please ensure that the proxy is able to communicate with the virtual machine host and that there is sufficient disk space available. Details: [Success]Source: win-2360105, Process: vsrstI am trying to restore my SQL deployment and namespace in same place and out place. Pods is successfully restored and some time it restored deployment and namespace, but data and tables are not available in Database.For this testing I am using all in one Commvault Package.
we have below licenses since when we take our file system level backup on this protected vm its using the capacity license do we need to purchase voi additionally or its the same license
we noticed difference in time from the backup job summary reports which are generated from webconsole.Commserve timings are in EST . Backup job summary reports from commcell console is in EST but same report from webconsole showing different timings. Please guide me on how to correct timings in webconsole backup job summary reports.
how many VM Proxy required for 1000 servers to run backup in hotadd mode.
I just got done with the Foundations and Professional training for Commvault (5 days) and we talked a lot about disk and library maintenance.My largest disk library is hosted on a Synology Disk Library, connected via iSCSI to a Windows Media Agent. 5 of the disks on there are 100% fragmented, as reported both by Commvault Analysis, and the Windows Defragmentation Tool.My question is there a way I can take one mount path offline at a time to perform the defrag? Is that recommended? Under mount path properties, I see the Enable Mount Path option under status, but the bit about stopping the DDB from referencing blocks on the mount path scared me.I also saw the Device Enabled setting, and thought that may be the way…Otherwise, under the Mount Path Allocation Policy, I saw I could prevent writing to the mount path for new data, which is also an option…I had disabled the entire library and ran a defrag on ONE of the 100% fragmented disks, and it was still running 24 hours later, so I wanted
i need to reduce capacity license consumed by the windows file system level agent ,it was taking full content and i modified the default subcleint content to reduce the size full synthetic backup is scheduled on weekly , so the change in the capacity full only show after the next full backup ?unless we run a manual full backup and delete and age previous full copy
I am facing issue in login to java console for only one domain user. it was working previously and suddenly stopped. For other users its working perfectly from the same system and profile.
for sql backup schedule i need to take db backup full daily and transaction log backup hourly , its 2 node windows cluster i created one schedule for sql db backup and created seperate tasks for db and logs below for db backup task and i created another task like below for transaction log backup is this right way , because i am getting below for the sql backup summary where as i am running oracle backupsince it shows archive as deferent instance as well since it shows the archive instance separately i created another schedule policy for archive backup same as above but it shows 2 jobs running hourly for oracle can someone help me correct way of scheduling db and log backup for oracle & sql
Hi Everyone,looking to make a server plan change to an existing o365/exchange backup apps. Environment:On-premise, storeonce catalyst integrated. All o365 workloads, Teams, EXO, SPO, OD are going to one storeonce catalyst store for dedup.Apps Configuration:EXO, Team and OD shared the same office 365 and Server plans. objective/ planning to Change: to have separate schedule/flexibility each apps if a new server plan is created and pointing the same storage/store catalyst, and update existing EXO apps, what would be the expected behavior for the next job? would the next job creates new full? thank you in advance for your feedbacks.
CommServe DB query==================SELECT startdate ,clientname ,idataagent ,instance ,backupset ,subclient ,backuplevel ,jobstatus ,jobidFROM CommcellBackupInfoWHERE jobstatus = 'Failed to Start'and backuplevel = 'Synthetic Full'and iDataAgent = 'Virtual Server' order by jobid desc ; I was this list to contain only the jobs from last 24 hours, how to add the time range in this sql query.
Unable to find the events in splunk, we confirm that the host is reachable from commserve as well as the IPIs there anything else that we must verify?Also tried deploying a syslog server separately (enabling rsyslog), even there we were not able to find the logmonitor.log being sent.
Hi,We have two NetApp filers where we perform Snapmirror Volumes in a synchronous way. So, the data of the volumes for each SVM (Storage Virtual Machine) are replicated in a synchronous way to another SVM located in another NetApp Filer.We want to configure NDMP backups using streaming mode. Questions:What are the best practices to configure such type of configuration? Do we need to configure a client at the SVM level or NetApp cluster level? In case of SVM failover, can Commvault make a link between the two different SVMs which are different but contain the same volumes (snapmirror)?Thanks
if am taking application aware vm backup do i need to take database backup commvault
Hi , the data that's backup’d in metallic cloud , be copied(AUX copy or similar ) to On-premise Commvault (Hyperscalex or similar)? any lead would be appreciated ?
Hello,I would like to ask you advice on my VMware backup Plan. I took this over from someone else and have been reviewing it. I have a local storage archive for 90 days and online for 7 years. I have 8 revolving recovery points being backed up. The under RPO the backup frequency shows run incremental every 24hrs. Under Database options the RPO is every 4 hours for log backup and full backup every 3 weeks. My main concern is the incremental job every 24 hours. I’m new to Metallic and want to make sure that this configuration is recommended and enough. I know the engineer helped set all of these plans up so I think it may be fine but I want to be sure. Thoughts??
Hi When I am restarting one of Hyperscale X node as per below doc url but after restart node the all disks on that node showing offile till I select “refresh” option from action menu, please check attached screen shots, is there is wrong or it is normal behaviour Stopping and Starting a HyperScale X Appliance Node (commvault.com) Thanks
Hi all, we have a customer that wants to archiv the Fileserver from his software development deparment.They have a lot of files and also a lot .EXE and .DLL Files laying around, related to different projects. According to the documentation, *.EXE and *.DLL are filtered by default.https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/25799_windows_file_system_archiving.html Is there a Key or Setting to change this Filter to include .EXE and .DLL to the archive data?
Hello Community#1 vms are linked to the same storage pool and DDB is enabled, when moving the VM between subclients will initiate a re-baseline ? #2 Could you confirm whether Commvault generates the DDB signature based on the server name or UUID or else?"#3 If we enable Commvault encryption on the subclient level, will this trigger DDB re-baseline when the scheduled job starts for the existing subclients ? if so, does job will convert to full automatically or has to run full manually ? thank you
HelloWe are planning on performing an upgrade from 11.24.98 to 11.28.x only to clear vulnerabilities with dotnet 3.1.32 which is EOL. So we have been told we must upgrade to 11.28.x which installs Python 3.9.13 Our problem in the past with an upgrade is that we had a conflict with the upgrade when it came to the install part of python modules (only around the 7% complete install stage) because we had a higher version then what the upgrade was trying to install. We have upgraded python in the past to clear security vulnerabilities. We are currently at python 3.9.5. Any advise on what to do to avoid a similar situation with a 11.28.x upgrade??Should we totally remove python and its folders it leaves behind after an uninstall. How do I know we are python free. Just uninstalling from control panel I dont believe does the trick. We have a sensitive network were we cant install a “program cleaner” software app etc.. Once we are python free should I reinstall the 3rd party python app
Hi,currently I am testing to establish a backup configuration for M365 backup.In my setup the CommServe itself has no internet access. The access node for M365 is able to access the internet. When I try to setup the configuration with the “Office 365 configuration helper” everything is working so far. But if I try to get the content from M365 or if I try to validate the setup, I am not able to finish it.In firewall logs, I see that the CommServe is trying to open Port 443 to several IP addreses in the internet.When I open internet access for the initial setup of Exchange Online, I am able to finish the setup and after closing the ports I am still able to backup. So it seems only the validation is not working.Since opening that ports in my productive environment is not an option, I’d like to ask you, if there is any workaround possible, to create a working environment without opening the ports.Do you have any idea?BRJan
Hi All, is it possible to create an alert for exchange online mailbox backup. When the Cache update is older than x days Showing mailboxes from cache last updated on: Apr 17, 8:49 AM We had some enviroments hwere the cache update and auto discover does not work. Thsi cause potential data loss. the stupid thing here is that the mailbox backup shown as completeded even if there are a lot of skipped mailboxes with that kind of error: Mailbox [Extra] not found in local mailbox cache. Please make sure local mailbox cache is available and refreshed without error. So we want to get an alert when the cache is to old.
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