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ManikandnByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Regarding Dedup path for cloud Storage pool creation

Hi Team, I have a HyperScale with 6 node cluster in on-prem for primary copy. For Secondary copy I need to move the data to Cloud (Archive Storage).My doubt is, when I am creating the Cloud Storage Pool, Do I select the existing (On-Prem) de-dup path (/ws/ddb/P_1/Copy/_21/Files/31) ( or) Do I need to create a dedicated the dedup path in the on-prem MAIf I need to option 2, then what is the recommended dedup partition value and reason behind that?  And also share the your best practice for hybrid data protection, if any.  Thanks,Manikandan

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M
Byte
3 years ago
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Commvault Certified Expert
euMikeCommvault Certified Expert
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Command Center FREL selection

Is it possible to override default vCenter FREL for guest file restore in Command Center? It seems to be Commcell Console-only option.Also, it would be great if we could add FREL to a VM Group (same as we can add Access Nodes).Using single/default FREL in multiple-cluster vCenter can be technically impossible. SW: 11.22.9Thanks! 

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Commvault Certified Expert
3 years ago
T
Byte
tsmtmillerByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Perm to Tape

How can I just make backups to tape Perm, once a month? Can I set retention to 0 days?

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T
Byte
3 years ago
B
Bit
BillBit
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Retention & Data aging

Short version of the question: Does modifying a file in Commvault reset the 1-year retention?In our environment I have daily incremental that roll into a weekly synth full that roll into a monthly synth full. That monthly is kept for 1 year so at any given point I have 12 months of Monthly synth full jobs.Our retention is set to 1 year.  “For 365 days Keep Monthly Full”So I create a file on 01/01/21 and the daily incremental job runs 01/02/21 and backs the file up.It then should be part of the weekly synth job and then part of the monthly synth full job for January, correct?That file then would be available (unless modified) until January 2022 when the next monthly synth full runs, Correct?The question that was asked is unless a file is modified will it expire after 1-year?If the file is modified on 9/1/21 then it would go through the daily incremental > weekly synth full > monthly synth full and retained until the 9/1/22 job ranI guess the short question is after 1-year any none

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
3 years ago
Bart
Byte
BartByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Command center SAP for Oracle

I was checking the documentation regarding Command Center and SAP For Oracle (brtools).This leads,for example, to this:https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=112509.htmThis redirects you to the SAP for Oracle documentation, fine: https://documentation.commvault.com/11.21/expert/21968_sap_on_oracle_restores.htmlBut...the SAP for Oracle documentation only mentions Java console & command line restores/database copy.Nothing is mentioned regarding the Command Center.Where is that information? I’m mainly looking for the status of the Oracle in case of a db copy. Should it be stopped/started/mounted/notmounted state, in case of restore (database copy) using the command center.   

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Bart
Byte
3 years ago
V
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virgilByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

MS SQL Granular restore

Hi , i try to perform a granular restore from a MS SQL  i‘ve  systematicallyt his error : “Granular restore is supported for blocklevel and snap backup. database selected doesn’t qualify for SQL granular restore i enable block-level backup ( Optimized for File system with large number of small files (Block-LevelBackup  check box) in subclient.i try with VSS and not. i checked prerequisites and all is done.i missed soemthing ?thanks for help 

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Vaulter
3 years ago
dude
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dudeByte
asked in Developer Tools, Integration and Automation

vRealize Appliance Automation 8.0 Backup

Wanting to get a confirmation. I see that Vmware has a very specific requirement to backupvRealize Automation 8.0 described below;https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Suite/2019/vrealize-suite-2019-backup-and-restore-avamar/GUID-49FA9AB6-2A69-4F41-80E1-495447F4D6FC.htmlDoes Commvault has the ability to perform those tasks? I looked at the docs and could not find the details or info related to this.Thanks

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R
Vaulter
3 years ago
B
Byte
Barefoot1999Byte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Activate - modify index storage location

I’m setting up Activate to hopefully use for my company for file share optimization.  My initial storage which was about 600GB is space is now full.  I have not been able to determine in the configuration settings how to modify or add new storage to the current index.  I’ve even attempted to create a new index server but it will not let me use the same node (media agent) as before so that I can assign new storage.  In this case the local F: drive.  Does anyone know where the configuration is for me to modify the target of Activate index files?

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Vaulter
3 years ago
Bart
Byte
BartByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Monthly chargeback report

Hi, Is this report working for someone?When we want to use it, the drop down boxes for commcell/clientgroup are empty. (11.21)  

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Bart
Byte
3 years ago
T
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Thomas-BByte
asked in Virtualization and Containers

AppAware log backup schedule policy

I’ve configured  MS SQL VMs in Hyper-V for AppAware backups in Commvault 11.22.3. As detailed on docs.commvault.com an automatic log backup schedule is created and log backups proceed as planned.In the CommCell Console I can only find them through the client > ‘SQL Server’ > instance > ‘default’ subclient, right-clicking Schedules. They’re shown with an empty Schedule Policy name.They’re not shown in the Schedule Policies section, nor in the Scheduler, so no easy way to manage multiple ones at the same time. What am I missing?

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T
Byte
3 years ago
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Commvault Certified Expert
renaatskiCommvault Certified Expert
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

IAAS MSP and plans for VSA backups

Hello,Any smart ideas on how an MSP could delegate Plan choice on a per VM / DB / FS / etc..  level?    E.g.  have customer choose the right Bronze/Silver/Gold plan for VM’s, databases, etc.Command center obviously has the functionality to assign plans, but… it involves dealing with creating individual subclients first etc, since that today is where you can apply a plan to. In my situation, the IAAS infrastructure is shared, and data is organized into subclients from an infrastructure point of view (datastore, cluster, resource pools, etc).    This infrastructure is shared across different customres.Customers don’t have access to the hypervisor/subclients on CommVault for obvious reasons. Creating subclients per VM (by the MSP), just so that you could assign an individual plan to is obviously not the right way to go. (scalability, performance, scheduling, burden/overhead on the clients & infra).Looking forward to any suggestions anyone might have in this area. I’m waiting for the d

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MFasulo
Vaulter
3 years ago
B
Byte
BenjisByte
posted in Share Best Practices

Making 'lazy' great again!

Hi folks, I have a question and or rather willing to have a discussion and sharing information about how we can minimize our efforts of clicking. Possibly share scripts that we have developed and help each other out on daily tasks. We all know that Java GUI has a lot of ways to do the same and it also involves a lot of clicking.  For example, I was able to find and adapt qscripts, qoperations and API for quite a few good daily ops in my scripts, automation:Get clients associated to specific Client Group; Get Client Group to which specific server belongs; Add / Remove client from specific Client Group Start / Stop media agents maintenance mode DIP’s operations (enable/disable/remove/add) Commcell activity (Enable/Disable) Finding duplicate clients between our commcells And sure, all of it depends on the level of competence in automating, but Commvault being ‘old dinosaur’ can still be automated a bit. Now, for example I cannot find a way to write a script which switches preffered media

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Vaulter
3 years ago
Juergen
Byte
JuergenByte
asked in Developer Tools, Integration and Automation

Problems with API

Hello,When I try: Command : http://<<webserver>>:81/SearchSvc/CVWebService.svc/VM I got only the first 100 VMs entry in alphabetical order back.there is no error!Have any one an idea why not all, we have around 2000 VMs.thanks in advanceJuergen

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Vaulter
3 years ago
A
Byte
Abdul WajidByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Starting Incremental Backups for Selected VMs in a Subclient

Hello Everyone We run a frequent patching schedule and we are asked to make sure that we have latest backups available for those servers. These servers belong to multiple subclients and we are at the moment manually triggering the incremental backups for those subclients and this takes time as we have to initiate the backup of whole subclient even if only one VM is being patched out of those lets say 20 VMs.What is the best way to approach this without moving the VM out of the subclient.? Or is it possible to trigger incremental backups for selective VMs inside a subclient. We are at SP20. Thank You 

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A
Byte
3 years ago
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Vagicharla Sunilkumar
posted in Self-Hosted Q&A

AUX copy running very slow

We are running on V11 SP19 and all our media agents are running on Windows 2016Initially AUX copy performance was at peak 3TB/hr to 7TB/hr, gradually it performance degrade and now AUX copy job running at  300GB/hr to 500GB/hr. One this I found DDB verification job is not completing at all. Any support much appreciated

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Vaulter
3 years ago
B
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BillBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

New vCenter, Clients, subclients and existing data

We plan on adding new ESXi (VMware) vCenters to our existing environment. During this our Virtual admins will be adding a couple at a time and then moving the existing VMs over so we will have the old ones in place and new ones.I know I will have to deploy and configure the new vCenter (VSA) client and add the hosts and we use Folders. So the Folder names will be mirrored in the old and new existing vCenter environments. With all that being said how will Commvault treat the first backup on the new vCenter clients? Will they be considered full because they are on new hosts or will it see the existing data and only treat it like an incremental because of how the Global Dedupe policy works? I am curious because if everything is a “full” I won’t have the capacity.Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks.

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
3 years ago
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SmartoddBit
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Microsoft sql backup with intellisnap - should I use VSS setting?

Question: What are the pros and cons of using the “Use VSS” setting in the sql server instance properties.What is the real difference between traditional backup methods and vss full backups when using NetApp and Intellisnap to backup MS SQL Instances?

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S
Bit
3 years ago
neuwiesener
Byte
neuwiesenerByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Enable ransomware protection

https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=7877_1.htm I was wondering what this fix is about that can be downloaded from https://cloud.commvault.com/webconsole/softwarestore/store.do#!/147/0/15365 . Is this to be able to see the check box on the media agent or is this a report. If it is a report is can someone please share a sample output of it please?

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neuwiesener
Byte
3 years ago
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Dan RubinBit
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Backup Image Physical Devices

Does Commvault have the ability to backup image a physical device? One of our physical computers computers just had a false quarantine hit it due to our AV. Now our machine is corrupt and we have no image of the machine and need to reinstall and configure the software. Normally, I would just use something like Ghost or Accronis but I am thinking of how I can use Commvault to doe the same. 

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J
Bit
3 years ago
neuwiesener
Byte
neuwiesenerByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Automatic Tunneling and Encryption for Network Traffic

Hello CommunityIs this procedure https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=129268.htm equivalent to using a network topology (network gateway for instance so that the traffic is tunneled through a single port 8403) and enabling the checkbox “encrypt network traffic” on the network topologies dialog box? Also what should one observe in the network summary on the commcell level to verify that these settings “automatic tunneling and encryption for network traffic”  are in place? 

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
3 years ago
Michael Woodward
Commvault Certified Expert
Michael WoodwardCommvault Certified Expert
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Remove CommCells from cloud.commvault.com

I work for a MSP, and as a matter of course we add CommCells we manage to the Commvault Cloud Metrics Reporting site, (I currently have 27 CommCells linked there), but over time we stop managing some CommCells but there is no way to remove them once they have been added (that I can see).Is there a way to remove a CommCell once it’s been added?

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S
Vaulter
3 years ago
F
Byte
flokaiserByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

NDMP Backup Performance very poor with a Netapp CIFS Volume with millions of Files

Hi,are there any Best Practices to Backup Netapp Volumes with lots of files in a single Volume (use cases cannot use multiple volumes)? Two of my Customers running in a similar issues with the Performance (1st Customer has a Throughput of around 10 GB/h and the other around 150 GB/h). On both Customers we are Using Intellisnap and after we create a Backup Copy to a Disklib. Here is the CVPerfLog of a NDMP Job:2748  1858  01/27 12:05:16 45098 *CVPERFLOG*|13|273978|38|1611742376|1611738776|1611745516|1611741916|1611742376|1611738776|1611745516|1611741916|49|1|*CVCOUNTER*|550|19|1611741916|3139|0|0|0|0|*|7479872512|0|*CVCOUNTER*|551|550|1611741916|3120|0|0|0|0|percent:99.41|0|0|*CVCOUNTER*|552|551|1611741916|3114|0|0|0|0|percent:99.23|0|0|*CVCOUNTER*|553|551|1611741916|6|0|0|0|0|percent:0.19|0|0|*CVCOUNTER*|505|550|1611741916|18|0|0|0|0|percent:0.58|0|0|*CVCOUNTER*|503|505|1611741916|4|0|0|0|0|percent:0.16|0|0|*CVCOUNTER*|502|505|1611741916|12|0|0|0|0|percent:0.39|0|0|*CVCOUNTER*|1004|505

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R Anwar
Vaulter
3 years ago
F
Byte
flokaiserByte
asked in Self-Hosted Q&A

Cannot add multiple Azure Apps to O365 App in Commvault

Hi,I have a problem if I want to add additional Azure Apps to my O365 Backup App in Commvault Command Center. The Process failes for all kinds of O365 Apps and I see this issue on Customer Site with FR20 and in my demo env with FR22.In the webserver.log I found following error:7688  14    01/28 08:19:18 ### TEST\kaiser CVWeSvc::CreateAzureAdApp - BEGIN 7688  14    01/28 08:19:18 ### TEST\kaiser CVWeSvc::CreateAzureAdApp - Save to client flag is set 7688  14    01/28 08:19:18 ### TEST\kaiser CVWeSvc::CreateAndSaveAzureAdApp - BEGIN 7688  14    01/28 08:19:18 ### TEST\kaiser CVWeSvc::CreateAndSaveAzureAdApp - Request Message - [<App_AzureAdAppCreationReq instanceId="24" opType="1" subClientId="180" isOneDriveV2="1" saveToClient="1" redirectUriForApp="https://commserve.test.viso/adminconsole" />] 7688  14    01/28 08:19:18 ### TEST\kaiser GetInstanceProperties - Processing POST request : ] Headers :[Content-Length=149].[Accept=application/json].[Accept-Encoding=gzip, deflate, br].[A

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F
Byte
3 years ago
B
Bit
BillBit
asked in Virtualization and Containers

Last access date vsa client

I know the VSA client, an our hypervisor is VMware, uses a snapshot to perform the backup. Does this process modify the “last access” date for the VM and or files? I know you can configure the File iData agent to track this but cannot find if the snapshot modifies this attribute. Thanks.

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B
Bit
3 years ago
D
Byte
DimitriByte
asked in Developer Tools, Integration and Automation

API Call for client license consumption

Hi guys,is there a easy API call where I get the license consumption for a client?I found this API call:{{ServerUrl}}/Client/{{clientId}}/License But this gives me only the used license type / name e. g.:{    "licensesInfo": [        {            "platformType": 1,            "license": {                "licenseType": 1,                "appType": 33,                "licenseName": "Server File System - Windows File System"            }        },        {            "platformType": 1,            "license": {                "licenseType": 3,                "appType": 81,                "licenseName": "Application Class 1 - SQL Server"            }        }    ]} My goal is to get a output like: clientA is using 200gb of license “Server File System - Windows File System”and clientA is using 100gb of license “Application Class 1 - SQL Server”  

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
3 years ago

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