Commvault Cloud Topics

This a common topic that comes up with prospects and even Commvault customers, so posting by “Why” response here.Start here: http://commvault.com/office-365 and on Microsoft’s website: https://www.microsoft.com/commvault In a single sentence: “You don’t depend on the Recycle Bin for data protection on your servers, do you? This is basically what Microsoft offers with Office/Microsoft 365.” While the “Recycle Bin” can be used to recover items, for Exchange Online (EXO) it requires 30+ steps and OneDrive & SharePoint Online (SPO) only provides easy recovery of mass unexpected changes for the last 30 days. Furthermore, the max retention for EXO is 30 days and OneDrive & SharePoint is

Is there any downside to using multiple channels (data streams) for Oracle RMAN backups when client-side deduplication is configured?  i.e. is deduplication negatively impacted vs using a single channel.Thank you.

Hello All, Is it possible to restore an AD account in CommVault even after the AD account was deleted (the account was deleted a few years back)? Thanks! 

Hi Experts, Are there any white papers I can read to learn more about how VSA vmware intellisnap and streaming backups work? I'm searching for a workflow and the process used to backup the vms. Thank you so much in advance.

I’ve inherited commvault from our previous admin. They’ve done a pretty decent job about documenting some items but it hasn’t been updated in years.  We’ve been playing cat and mouse with backups and dealing with upper management not wanting to purchase more storage, and they want an easy answer on what is eating up all of our storage, what's being backed up, what's not, and why we would need a 500k storage upgrade. And obviously licensing is an issue as well. I want to also preface this with our company has finally drawn up a retention policy so were not keeping junk that's over 10 years old anymore. We handle sensitive information as a government contractor, so all of our storage is on

I was trying to setup LDAP commcell->security. I do have port open but getting an error while setup.so I was concerned if it is possible to setup LDAP/AD under to commserve which is laid under a workgroup?

Hi, When checking the documentation, and the cmmandcenter, for installing Mongodb backups we only see the possibilty for adding mongodb clusters.but on our end, we only have a single instance mongodb installations. Does that mean we cannot backup the mongodb with commvault?  https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/99404_configuring_mongodb_client.html

Hi,  Does anyone has seen/been able to solve the following error. Reason: <There was error during initialization of information from input XML / local registry.> I have a cluster instance with 2 nodes. The nodes are online and i can make a back-up of the file system. But the Cluster Instance can't update/connect to nodes somehow. (add nodes to cluster in CommVault). This is the error i am getting so far. I deleted the nodes in the cluster instance and force sync, then added and force sync, still the same error remains as it is.   

I'm new to data backups. I apologise if my questions are too simple. Would the process of creating a Microsoft SQL backup include copying data records from a SQL Server database, or would it copy the entire image of the data volume (logical partition)? How does commvault locate the partition containing the database? Should I take a volume level backup in addition to a SQL data backup in case it isn't done as part of the process?

After end of the year schedule ran we lost all currently backup data for that day DAY and this incident happen to SQL DBsjobs that was selected to run AUXILLARY COPY too was clear and from the history did not show any job ran that day why.am suppose to see history of backup job for sql backup for 2021 /12/30 to 31 jobs that ran but to my suprise all job history was wipe out.

DEAR TEAM PLS QUICKLY ASSIST AS AM UNABLE TO TAKE FILE SYSTEM BACK IT COMPANY OF NO LICENSE AND SECOUNDLY I CANT RAISE SUPPORT WE ARE LOCK OUT PLS HELP  SEE BELOW:  

Hello Team, pls am face with this issue now once i try to take oracle backup the HOME went offline, once i suspend and kill the job the home come back up again, i try taking archive log it backup successfully. pls help what could be the issue.  

HelloAt the request of the client company, I proceeded with the recovery of Oracle DB backed up in PTL Media as follows.1. Backed up original DB to PTL Media. (SAN)2. The DB backed up with PTL was restored to the recovery server. (Network, using Backup Server MA)Different drives were used for backup and recovery.No issues occurred during the backup.The following message is output with a Failed unmount error during the recovery process:The path is being accessed by another application.Advice : please make sure that no other device explorer application like SAN explorer are running on the machine.PTL devices are used by Commvault only.I would appreciate it if you could advise me on what to check to resolve the issue.

Hello,I have a tape that appears to be stuck in one of the library drives. The tape itself  reports that it is stuck in the drive. I have tried the Clean / Reload / Unload Drive options to do effect. I also restarted the Quantum tape library to see if that helps, again no luck.     Cheers  

Hello All,I have one physical Commserve which acts as media agent. The JBOD is mounted to commserve as direct attached storage which acts as disk library.Now I want to separate the media agent, disk library by moving the commserve module to new VM.How to separate the media agent, disk library, ddb?Will I be able to uninstall the commserve module from exisiting commserve and install the commserve module on new VM. Post cs installation I am planning to use CSrecoveryassistant to restore the DR dump on new VM to being back the environment online.With the above steps done, my old commserve continue to be only media agent and new vm acts as commserve.Will this work?RegardsAnanth

Looking to restore guest files from a VM, any suggestions on what options to select?

we have 7 CellServers and create CellServer group on centralize reporting server, currently I only report for the reporting servers, not for all CellServers. Could Commvault generate global report for below?1,Backup Summary2, ComCell configuration

Hello,Why CommVault have not for each release all 1-Touch iso images, to download?in one release we have 1-Touch Physical ISO and 1-Touch Virtual ISO and the next I found only 1-Touch WinPE .is there any recommendation which ISO is to use? do I ever use the correct release, then I need configure driver on 1-Touch WinPE10, next time I have a different release I can use 1-Touch Physical ISO, I am a little confused about this strategy. regards Juergen

Hi experts, IHAC who runs SAP HANA on vmware vsphere and also CVLT to protect it.We’re performing  agent based application backup to ensure the consistency of SAP HANA database.And we’re about to do the agentless backup using vmware snapshot feature.But customer is reluctant to do a vm level snapshot backup because they experienced snapshot backup job caused the unexpected hang on vm when they ran Veritas NetBackup. We don’t expect application level consistency by performing vmware snapshot technology, not Intellisnap.Just want entire disk image(vmdk) to be protected in terms of system level. Do you guys have any experience or confirmation that CVLT snapshot backup on vm which hosts SAP HANA won’t cause any problem while performing a backup? Thanks 

Failed to start phase [Backup] on [BPOBRTIAS136] due to network error [Remote system [BPOBRTIAS136*BPOBRTIAS136*8400*8402]. Communications Service returned error when executing remote command [cdrcontrol.exe] arguments [-j 4672 -a 84 -r 110 -n 2:231 -jt 4672:2:1:0:59267 -f 0 -q 1 -s 0 ].]. Will attempt to restart. Please check if this product's services are running on the remote host.Source: BPOTSMIAS288, Process: JobManagerNetwork ProblemSource: BPOTSMIAS288, Process: JobManager 

i am having this issue wherein the VM level backup for this one VM is failing “The writer experienced a non-transient error. If the backup process is retried, the error is likely to reoccur. Please check the available free space and status of the volume being protected.” Other VMs are fine. we are on SP22 ; unfortunately this has just gone out of support; however we are booking at time to upgrade to SP24; although I am not sure if being on SP22 affects the backup as other VMs are working okay.  Although support did advise that if we do not upgrade; they would not be able to troubleshoot the issue further.  

HelloCommvault Version uses the V11 SP16.The OS of the Media Server with DISK LIBRARY where Aging is not working is AIX.When checking the contents of DISK LIBRARY in Commvault, the data shows 2.21TB written.When checking the CV_MAGNETIC path usage capacity of DISK LIBRARY PATH on the media server, it shows that you are using approximately 11TB.If you have any experience in solving this phenomenon, please share your solution.  

Hi Community,I have configured MFA in Commvault before V11 FR24, at that time it is required to have functioning mail address to send secret key, that can can be used in Microsoft or Google authenticator., and I have also uses SAML and ADFS based MFA, but again they also depends on Azure AD or tools like okta to generate PIN. i read in one community post, from FR25 we can use accounts with QR code, and our admin accounts are not configured with mailboxes, and they don’t forward emails to user mailboxes.we are using Microsoft authenticator for PIN generation, and Commvault is generating QR code for accounts with mailboxes, but not for accounts without mailboxes.   

Hi! We are in the process of replacing our old 6-node MSSQL cluster with a new 4-node cluster that will be using Always On Availability Groups. The existing cluster and it’s backups was configured many years ago by someone else who is no longer working here, and I am not a Windows Cluster, or MS-SQL person, but more of a storage person :-) Now, i’m trying to wrap my head around what would/should be the “best practice” way of configuring this for backups & restore.What i have done so far is of course to install the mssql-agent on all 4 physical nodes. And from what i can figure out from reading through documentation, it seems i should create a “MSSQL AG Client” pseudo-client for each “ms sql availability group”, which would add up to around 15-20 different pseudo-clients.    However, when looking at the current existing configuration for the old MSSQL-cluster, it is only a single “pseudo-client” that contains all “ms

Hi, I have a selective copy that backup a week's data on a tape. This tape i export every friday offsite.This week i I did not have more scratch and if i check media not copied on a selective copy i see more data.Now have scratch tape, and if i check jobs faile for storage policy there are more on status: not selected.how do i relaunch those jobs? if i search on job history same jobs id, there are on status completed because not saved only selective copy