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tigger2Byte
asked in Storage and Deduplication
Aux copy properties showing Media Not copied "Stream No./Sequence" column containing "stream" 0/1?

I have some Aux copies that have this, for example:The Aux copy is configured to use 8 streams via “Combine source data streams = 8”.  Multiplexing is not enabled.  When it runs (in properties → Streams tab)  it has 8 “Destination Streams” running (“Number of readers in use = 8 ). BUT when I look at properties → “Media not Copied” tab, it shows 9 streams in the "Stream No./Sequence" column, where it is:what's “0/1” → Stream Number 0? but if so then there’s 9 streams to copy?  I wanted to make sure something was not misconfigured somewhere and Stream No 0 wasn’t some default to handle an oddity/overflow of data or something strange.  I was under the impression the streams were to be combined to 8 (all data broken up into 8 chunks to be streamed/read/copied) … yet the UI is telling me I have 8 streams “to copy” and another one named 0, though it actually only runs 8 streams/readers. For reference, here's the active streams of the same job showing 8 readers/streams 

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
2 years ago
Robert Horowski
Commvault Certified Expert
Robert HorowskiCommvault Certified Expert
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Oracle Duplicate from tape fails with error while restoring backup piece

HiI’ve been trying to run Duplicate Oracle database using Tape Storage Policy Copy but it fails during Archivelog restore with “Error while restoring backup piece”.Since this is a Selective Copy there are only Weekly Selective Fulls present on media. I’ve been looking for some answers in RMAN log, but what I see here doesn’t make sense.First of all the last SOF (selective online full) backup present on tape copy is job 47104. Looking at RMAN run block I can see SET UNTIL clause is set to correct time which is a couple of minutes before job 47104 ended. It does restore all required datafiles, but during archivelog restore it tries to restore from backup pieces from newer jobs which, since this is a Selective Copy, are not present on the media. Then it fails over to previous job until it tries to restore from the job that is actually on the media (47104) but it still fails permanently this time. The SCN on which restore fails is lower then the Next SCN number in the job properties so it

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
2 years ago
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xiwenByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
NetApp OnTap migration from on-premises to cloud

we plan to migrate Netapp OnTap from on-premises to cloud, want to get some suggestion. 1, plan to backup data to Azure data box, then restore data from data box to Azure file service. How to move backup image from Azure data box to Azure blob for next restore job? 2, on-premises Netapp OnTap is about 10TB, will move them to Azure file service and run routine backup job. How to charge license for the migration and routine backup job? 3, After we restore data from Azure data box for Azure file service, how to sync. data between on-premise Netapp ontap and Azure file service? 4, how to backup Azure file service? mount CIFS on backup agent?

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M
Vaulter
2 years ago
christopherlecky
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christopherleckyByte
posted in Share Best Practices
CommVault Hidden GEMS - Share the CommVault links you have bookmarked that made your life easier.

CommVault has the classic problem of a product with so much wide ranging utility that it is practically impossible to keep track of every aspect of the product.  That said I am sure we have all had the experience of finding a CommVault tool or website that is a game changer for your use case. Please share these links here:  VSA Feature compatibility MatrixTape Storage Matrixadditional settings database

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
2 years ago
M
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Michal128Byte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
How to allow access to webconsole for some parts of administrator which had access to Commcell

Hello All, Yesterday with one of my colleague we tried to configure some Reports from daily backup on email. The fastest way is login to webconsole. My colleague has some access to CommCell, but from site of webconsole, when he tried to login, the popup window inform us that the user or password is not corrected. I wonder what type of security access should be granted to the user to: Have access to webconsole.  Have possibility to create proper report.Regards, Michal 

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
2 years ago
M
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MNCHRBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication
Problem with Tape Library

Hello,we use an “Fujitsu Eternus LT S2 10” with our commserve and till we change the StorrageLibrary it works good. But now we get this Message and I doesn’t find the right setting to activate the tape-Library.  We use  11.25.23Can you help me ? best regardsChris

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
2 years ago
Nikos.Kyrm
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Nikos.KyrmByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication
Dash Copy from DDB Disk Library to HPE StoreOnce

Hello to all,In case of local Disk Library with Commvault DDB enabled, If create a replication/secondary job to a HPE StoreOnce as target, these jobs are going to transfer only the changed data blocks ? Like Dash copy? Or the entire physically copying data for every job?The goal is to reduce the data / traffic for replicated jobs.Please for your help 😀 Thank you in advance,Nikos

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L
Byte
2 years ago
J
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JNIZByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Is it possible tu use a desktop LTO drive (without library controller ) ?

A customer would like to use  direct attached (SAS) LTO drive. Ist it possible ? I didn’t find how to configure it.Thank youJiri.

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L
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2 years ago
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Tomipe
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
GSUITE BACKUP

Hello Team, I have a client who is requesting to Backup Gsuite mailboxes and also restore the mailboxes to her exchange on-prem.Please, I will like to ask if it is possible with Commvault.  Thanks.

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2 years ago
S
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sgmoBit
asked in Developer Tools, Integration and Automation
Pre/Post process - anyone tried setting up a check to see if EC2 is running first

Hello - We have a bunch of DEV servers that the developers turn on and off without letting us know. We would like to setup either a prescan or prebackup process that would check to see if the server is active, either by a network check or seeing if its powered on  - and if its not, skip the backup. Anyone tried this?  thanksPaul

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
2 years ago
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Eduardo BragaByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Data Aging - Oracle Database - getCrossCheckInfo()

Hi,  Does anyone knows how the Commvault determines the number of clients and instances to be crosschecked? According to Data Aging logs, the function getCrossCheckInfo() returned a total of 10 (ten) Oracle instances to be cross checked, but we have many more.  The option Disable RMAN Crosscheck is NOT checked for any client.   

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Sunil
Vaulter
2 years ago
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Commvault Certified Expert
ChrisKCommvault Certified Expert
asked in Developer Tools, Integration and Automation
Convert Commvault actions to Python command

We’re a Service Provider and want to automate reoccurring tasks using Python, so we can integrate these in our business processes. (examples: creating new schedule policy, creating new storage pool, create scheduled report)As I’m new to Python it would be really handy to have some way of converting a Commvault action to a finished Python script/command, similar to how you can see certain API equivalents or save certain actions as a script from within the Java Console.Is that possible or some other way to get the Python command equivalent without having to manually put it together?I’m aware of the info on the documentation online and GitHub, but it would be great to have more examples than the ones on the documentation site so they can be used as a guideline for non-Python pros. For example for each option a quick example, as it is done with the qcommands.

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christopherlecky
Byte
2 years ago
X
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xorByte
asked in Developer Tools, Integration and Automation
Workflow Engine Execution step

Hello Folks,I have to perform these three steps via WF but I can't find any guide that I can help myself.Anyone have experience?Backup of Server AMI (AWS)ThenBackup FS via Media AgentThenSQL Backup FULL / Differential OnlineBest regards,xor

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X
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2 years ago
M
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MubaraqByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Archive tables for SQL server databases

Hello, Team. So, I have this question. Is it possible to Archive tables for SQL server databases in Availability Group with commvault? Please, advise as this is urgent.

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M
Byte
2 years ago
L
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liorkrispinBit
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Commvault WORM

hi, we have on AUX copy with WORM definition, now we want to delete those jobscan someone help?

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H
Vaulter
2 years ago
antonio
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antonioByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Monitoring backups via SNMP or Webhook

Hello everyone, how are you guys doing?Well, currently we have a client that is using Commvault software and he is kinda lost in the alerts that he receives via e-mail (even having the configurations of the Tokens in the Alert when he receives, the pieces of information is not properly shown as he expects like the correct name of the VMs, why some of them are getting errors and which VMs, etc).With this, he requests to see if there’s an option to receive the Alerts integrating with Zabbix or with something similar. I took a look in the Alerts Configurations and I see the option to use SNMP and Webhooks. Here we already have a Zabbix server that we use to receive some specific Alerts such as if the server is down, or rebooted. With this, I took a look in the documentation and noticed that Commvault can use SNMPv3: https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/97609_setting_up_snmpv3_alert_notifications.html but I didn’t found anything in how to properly configure this so we can use

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antonio
Byte
2 years ago
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liorkrispinBit
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Commvault backing up passive node instead of primary node in Always on data base.

from no reason Commvault training to backup passive node instead of primary..

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Vaulter
2 years ago
E
Eyal
asked in Storage and Deduplication
Auxiliary copy jobs slow performance

Hi  All,After installing a new library (NAS with CIFS share) with new storage policy (no compression , no encryption) –Backup jobs are running fine, but aux copy jobs (replication to the DR site) are much slower than before , about x10 times slower.We checked the network performance between MA and repository and between MA production and MA DR site – all working well.What can be the problem? Is there any fine tuning for the aux copy wo work faster?Thanks.

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L
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2 years ago
E
Eyal
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
3rd party storage replication

Hi All,i want to configure 3rd party storage replication between 2 Commvault sites (every site has a Media Agent) , instead of using a dash/aux copy.is this supported? What is the way for restoring from DR site when doing a failover after a crisis? Can we just scan the CIFS share on the DR media agent and restore all data?thanks.

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
2 years ago
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ADN GMBHByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Pre-Scan Script for VMware Backup

Hi,we want to backup some vmware vms sitting at a hosters site.For security reasons, the vcenter is in a different network segment and only available via an exclusive vpn connection.So i wanted to setup a Pre-Scan script to up and a Post-Backup script to down the VPN.But for whatever reason, the vmware VSA agent isn’t supporting a Pre-Scan script.Am I the only one, looking for this feature/function?Is there a workaround?I would really like to not have to use another program to schedule the VPN. Best RegardsJoerg

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
2 years ago
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singhalyogiBit
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
Change from file Server to Laptop client

I have deployed FileSystem Package to approx. 80 laptops remotely from console and did not selected option to “configure as laptop “.Now, they are appearing as Server and i want them to appear as laptop.How can i change the package to configure as laptop?when i try to add package . the option to “configure as laptop “ does not appear”. 

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S
Bit
2 years ago
B
Byte
Backup files corruptionByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication
Possibly corrupted files

Hello,I have found ntfs disk errors ot commvault disk library.The library was offline. I have performed check disk on the volume and errors have been fixed.How to check health and data integrity  of the backup files and directoriesThank you!

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B
Byte
2 years ago
T
Vaulter
Takanori KikumotoVaulter
published in Share Best Practices
Retrieve information from CSDB - Whereabouts of the data

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

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T
Vaulter
2 years ago
T
Vaulter
Takanori KikumotoVaulter
published in Storage and Deduplication
Retrieve information from CSDB - DDB Information

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

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Vaulter
2 years ago
B
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benvByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A
sharepoint online list column restore suport

Hello,is it possible/supported to restore sharepoint online list column? thank you

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B
Byte
2 years ago

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