Commvault Cloud Topics

Is there a way to stop backup activity via an api call or some sort of workflow or python code? I am trying to figure out a way to do this in such a way that I can pass in certain parameters, such as specifying a client, media agent, etc.  Is this something that could possibly be done through a powershell script or an ansible script? or a python script? Is there an easier way to go about this? My goal is to find a way to automate the process of stopping all backup activity for multiple clients, media agents, etc.

Hi all, is there a way to change the the Unit for the “Current Throughput” in the Job Controller from GB/hr to MB/s? kind regardsJoerg for ADN

Hi,I installed Sever SQL agent on one of my standalone SQL server (MS SQL) Commvault recognized the client, but when I tried to add the databases into content to do the backup, I couldn’t add them. I was able to discover all the databases. The service account has sysadmin role.   

Hello ,I have a Commserve in production (name CS1 / IP 1)I would to test restore a CS Dump to another machine (CS2 / IP2) in the same Network (not isolated ) in Staging mode.I dont stop Commvault services in CS1 (its my production)There will be a risk of conflicts if Commvault services ?? if services are UP CS1 and CS2 ?Thanks. 

Hello Team,  im configuring 2500 endpoint device for protection and content indexing. i have created the package.created laptop plancreated content index policy installed the package on 1 laptop how i can enable content indexing on the device or how i can include it to the CI plan because there’s no button in the association tab? how i can assign universal access to each device owner so he can only see his device from the webconsole? i have went to manage/system/ access control  and activate automatic owner assignment with permission as shown below  appreciate the fast response.

Hi Team,We created Private Cloud Library using Dell EMC ECS S3 protocol. However, today I noticed that the DDB Engines of the related libraries are unchecked in the DDB Verification schedule created automatically by the system.Is this the default behavior?Is it not recommended for DDB Verification Cloud Libraries ?Is DDB Verification recommended even if our private cloud data is still in our own DataCenter? Best Regards.

Hi guys, What is better: Full backup or synthetic full for streaming on agent-based backups for file systems? I get the point of synthetic full being better in terms that we are not using client machine’s resources, but are there any disadvantages of it?Would the normal full be saver..? If so - why?

Hi I have a customer who has multiple sites and now we are looking to replicate those site to the cloud and need to evaluate the bandwidths for each site !Is there a way to generate a report for each site telling us what is the equivalent of a full backup for those sites? I have the Total Application Size and Total Data Size on Disks but I cannot really rely on this since some have 15 days retention and others have 60 days retention ! Is there a report or a way to find this kind of information ? 

Greetings,I have a single s3 bucket that has held all of our Aux copy backups for many years, and it looks like it goes back to 2017. This bucket gigantic sitting at about 1.5PB and there are hundreds or millions of files in it. I inherited this setup when I came on board a bit back so I don’t know much about the history of it. I do know that a couple years back Commvault was rebuilt/recreated and everything was setup new. Our current storage policies have a year retention going out to this s3 bucket, and I see it in Commvault for the jobs that they do get aged off after a year. This does go through a DDB, and I ended up sealing it a few weeks ago, and at the same time cleaned up (aged/space reclamation) as much as I could in order to shrink down our bucket. It dropped the bucket size very slightly when I did this. I was hoping for a lot more. That started to make me think that there is a discrepancy from what the bucket has to was Commvault believes it has. I think there is a lot more

Just a curiosity...Basically:Does Commvault increase/decrease the throughput (of a job, or per stream) of an Aux copy based on internal things like “how much data has to be copied” and/or “when the next job to run is”?  or anything similar? Essentially: If no external bottlenecks existed for an Aux copy, would CommVault go as fast as it can to Aux copy, or would it internally throttle based on “need to not go as fast as possible”?  if so, is there a way to see these metrics/know when its ocurring?Put another way: I’m wondering if Commvault, having “a few TB to copy” for a job, decides ‘yes, i can easily copy this in x hours before the next job, so therefore, no need to run at max performance for this job”, and then on another day, say there’s 100 TB to copy, so it determines” I need to ramp up the throughput for this job if I’m going to be able to finish this in time”?Another way to put this is: I’m not looking for a “yes/no” if “job time or data amount to copy” is literally the exact

Hi team i have multiple customers hosted on the same commserv how can i create an individule web console for each one 

I have some customized reports, which are scheduled to run once in 90 days, i would like to update certain properties of that schedule once in a while using workflowIt would be easy to do that if I do an GET api on the report schedule using the report schedule nameand using that i would update the properties that I want to. I’m unable to find any API specific to report scheduling. https://api.commvault.com/#416fa5bf-c150-4cbd-8f05-4bdc867d2719 is it possible to Get the details of a specific scheduled REPORT orhow do i list the properties of a particular REPORT Schedule orhow do i find the taskID for a REPORT Schedule. https://api.commvault.com/#8de6b19c-2815-4d50-b89e-99654a090db0 

DB restore is failing with below errorORA-19563: header validation failed for file

Hi everyone..  When will VMs with vHW v.20 be supported? I see that vSphere 8 is now listed as supported but VMs with Virtual Machine Hardware Version 20 is not…  https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/essential/107803_vmware_system_requirements.html  Any idea?Thanks..  Kind regardsKim Rubeck Solstar 

Following a recent experience I thought let's share this with the community. We replaced all our access nodes in one of our environments to use the Commvault provided FREL image. At some point we noticed older snapshots were not being pruned and we found out that the aging of the snapshots, when deleting them directly from the hypervisor configuration was failing with the following error: No Host found with HostId [1111].The logs revealed the following error:14852 149c 03/17 09:36:01 741958 CVSnapClientAPIInternal::deleteVolumeSnaps () - Failed to delete Volume Snaps. Err [60204:Unknown Volume Mount Host]. VolSnapInfo Status-[60280] Err [60204:No Host found with HostId [1111].].We in the end managed to fix the issue by selecting the newly added access nodes in the Array Access Nodes section that is part of the the Array Management module for the particular hypervisor within the CommCell Console.Of course I hope development will fix this in the future so you do not have to go back to t

Greetings, We changed some retention and aux locations and I pointed a bunch of clients over to this new storage policy we created. The new policy has a primary and aux location to it. The primary is going to have the same storage location that the clients went to before with the same DDB stuff. The aux location is new though and has a new pool and DDB to it. My question is if I should run a full backup of each of these clients now that they are repointed to the new storage policy? I think I have to right? The clients have been running a synth full on one day every two weeks and incrementals every other day. The original full backups don’t exist anymore. They wont just pickup in their normal chain (synths and incrementals) with moving them to the new policy right?Thanks

Suppose that we have been installed a file system agent software on linux client with root password Abc123!. After that root password has been changed and there are a new requirements to install another mysql agent software on that client with update with current MR version.So, how to change or modify the current root password for linux client from commcell console?

 I recently carried out a large delete from a Storage Policy copy, the Total Application Size is bigger than Total Data Size on Disk. I have waited a day before rechecking these stats. I can see there are no pending deletes so am assuming the Commvault pruning cycle has completed. My object storage carries out the physical deletes once a week. But I would not think  this would affect how Commvault displays the data on disk size. Any ideas why my Total application Size is smaller than Total Data Size on disk (running 2022E or 11.28 for us old farts)  

Hi there,I would like to understand what is the diferrence between Size of Application, Size of Backup and Data Written.Below there is my understanding so far, please make me correct if I am wrong. Size of Backup - Total size of data that should be backed up (including Index files)Data Written - Total size of data physically stored to the library/diskSize of Application - found this definition “The original size of the data before compression”, then what is the difference between Size of Backup and Size of Application? I would be grateful for your ideas. 

I will soon have to implement Commvault on a site consisting of the following elements:- 2 MediaAgent- A NetApp storage array presenting file per block via iSCSIThe idea is that the MAs work on the same storage and that when one goes down the other continues to provide availability to the infrastructure for both backup and restore operations and reading a lot I think that the best for my case would be to implement GridStor: https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/10842_gridstor_alternate_data_paths.htmlFor my knowledge and experience, reading it makes me a somewhat complicated configuration and I don't know if it fits the needs I am looking for.This is the procedure that is the most difficult for me because I do not understand very well why: https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/9788_san_attached_libraries_configuration.htmlI thought that presenting the LUN to the MA and formatting it and sharing the data path with the other MA would be enough but I see that it is n

Hi I am unable to complete the backup job for Kubernetes.Getting error as unable to mount snap volumes.I tried following the commvault community solution but was unable to rectify the error.Looking forward for the Solution ASAP.  Here are some logs :9388  1f84  03/15 21:00:10 1189 AppManager Found proxy clients on VSA subclient [42] with SP20 or higher service packs.9388  1f84  03/15 21:00:11 1189 JobSvr Obj Combined dynamic priority for the job is [281479271677952]9388  1f84  03/15 21:00:11 1189 Servant    [---- SCHEDULED BACKUP REQUEST ----], taskid [139] Clnt[longhorn-cvk01] AppType[Virtual Server][106] BkpSet[defaultBackupSet] SubClnt[volume-grp] BkpLevel[Incremental][2]9388  2af4  03/15 21:00:11 1189 Scheduler  Starting jobs only on proxies with service pack SP20 or higher9388  2af4  03/15 21:00:11 1189 AppManager Failed to unserialize vcenters Info XML: []9388  1614  03/15 21:00:11 1189 Scheduler  Phase [2-Discover] (0,0) started on [WIN-63OL3L5JFPN] in [0] second(s) - vsdisc.exe

I am setting up Exchage Online Metallic backups.. i see if i follow the express configuration there is no need to create a service acccount but the custom config requires that. Is there a reason the express config does not require that and do i need that created is i use express configuration. I tested and backups worked fine without it, also restores. Also same situaton for sharepoint online. Is the service account required for the express configuration?

Hi, we are doing backup of azure file share (iDataAgent: Cloud apps), where are several folders. Do you know how I can exclude requested folders from the backup?I didnt found any option where to do it.The only thing what I found in admin book was:https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/148009_performing_azure_file_share_data_backups.htmlFiles with a trailing slash (/) in the file name are not backed up, But I need to exclude folders not only files. Thank you! br, Stano

Quick question on this topic. Suppose data was accidentally deleted and you ran DDB verification and it came back with and error “cannot find path” Does DDB verification fix that for backups going forward? Thanks in advance. 

Hi team ,I am testing the Kubernetes backup with CV. I would like to know whether we can manage/do the retention of local snapshots on cluster? If we can do the retention, then what are the possible storage options for retention policy ?