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Hello all, I would like add some antiransomware practices to my Commcell.I’ve read andhttps://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11_sp20/article?p=7879_1.htm My first need is to monitor a specific client computer group: honeypot and file activity anomalies alerts. For now i’ve set a file activity alert, though comcell console:Went in home / alert For keeping original one untouched, as reference, i’ve added a new one, with same parameters: category operation / type event viewer events, selected the wanted client computer group, alert criteria on event code equals to “7:211|7:212|7:293”, mail notification, no token criteria, selected user to notify, and finish From documentation:File activities on the client computer are checked every 5 minutes and any abnormal activity is reported to the administrator by an alert and event. For the first 7 days, the client computer is monitored and analyzed for day to day activity. After 7 days, a base line of file activities is established and aler

Hi Everyone, I need to provide figures on the rate of change for our backup data, as we are looking to send data to another location with two weeks retention. I have a mature, deduplicated environment so the figures I am seeing on reports and the like, are not too much use at the moment. I need to really factor in two things:-1 - Expected size of the baseline (I will be created a new copy, targeting the new location)2 - The rate of change of future backups. So I have two main questions:- 1 - How do I calculate my expected dedupe and compression savings for my first Auxcopy.I realize this will effectively be copying over an equivalent full backup, since it will be seeding the new library.I am thinking along the lines of assuming a 50% saving (compression and some dedupe combined) but I am wondering if there a better or more accurate way of doing this? My data is largely filesystem, so OS and server, but I may need to look at application data too (SQL\ Oracle). 2 - How do I calculate my

Hi Mike, Yes i am having the same problem. I tried this method but got no results. I restarted Commvault services. I made a cache commit. However, the result did not change. I will reboot CS tomorrow :) If not resolved I will open a new issue.

Over the past weekend, we had a VM FULL backup job failed because of failure with vCentre authentication. After changing to a new username and restarting the VMware vSphere Web Client service, the job ran successfully, as well as all the incremental VM backup jobs since. However, what’s annoying me is that, with the same (new) username and password, in the Virtual Server Instance Properties, I still got “Connection refused” message  So, I don’t quiet understand how come the backup job was fixed whereas the vCentre authentication is still not working ? Thanks, Kelvin   

Hello Is there a command line that i can use to get the content of a subclient?Have try using this but it returns a lot more information than i needhttps://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11/article?p=31566.htm

Hi all,Sorry for yet another question. But I love the quick feedback I get on this platform! :-)I have a customer running DDBv4 who wants to leverage DDBv5 with Horizontal Scaling.I know that we have the ConvertDDBToV5 workflow, or alternativelywe could convert the DDB manually.But would that also enable Horizontal Scaling automatically? Or is there some separate procedure required for getting horizontal scaling?Thanks in advance for your reply!

Is there a way we can perform silent install (without any human intervention) for the Maintenance release) as we already have our main package already installed and we need it for few of the Linux servers due to bug in password encryption in cassandra. 

Hey all,before raising a ticket to support I want to know if I miss something.I’ve created a new backup plan (call it ‘B’) and assigned it to users group based on AD group.the AD group contains about 500 users, some new and some already exist in CV.For the new users plan ‘B’ is assigned successfully during activation.The issue is with existing user that already assigned to plan ‘A’.I have a workflow to run on all users in a group and assign the respective plan to their laptops, but the issue is that the users are not present in the users group although that they do exist in the AD group. What do I miss? ThanksYirmi

Since we run 11.22 , we have the following in the reports.The report selection boxes are unreadable (white on light gray)...to be honest...I’m not young, but also not that old, so I think that’s a problem with Commvault admin center :)  

Hello, I would to set continuous incremental backups every 30 minutes from last job’s end time and synth fulls during the weekend, on laptops. I’ve created a schedule policy with this settings. My problem is that many users, friday evening, shut their laptops, hanging in most of cases an incremental backup, then when synth full is triggered, it fails because their is already a job (that’s what i could trace). The problem is that i approximatively never have successfull synth fulls. So, is there a problem wanting to set a backup sequence this way? Thanks in advance for tips on it. Regards.

Hello,We have an Isilon cluster for primary storage for CIFS and NFS clients. We back it up to tape and disk libraries using 3-way ndmp. Incremental backups can be very large from time to time, so large that it seems like it might be backing up files that have not really changed. For example the current backup has transfered 1.7 million files. It seems unlikely that 1.7 million files have changed in the last 24 hours since the previous incremental (daily).So the questions I have are -How are files selected for incremental backup and is there a way to modify/control it? Is there a way to get a report on what files were backed up in a given job and what changed in the file that caused it to be backed up?Thanks,Ron

Morning,I am looking to ensure that that for extended retention the backup from the last day of the month is retained as per the extended retention rules. In the Incremental/Synthetic Full configuration created as part of the plan configuration is this possible? If so how can i configure to ensure that a synthetic full is ran on the last day of the month and then retained as per the extended retention rules?Thanks in advance. 

Hello,Initial scenario:Server MS Windows 2012 and MS SQL 2014 - hostname: lxpsql012 servers MS Windows were purchased (Physical Servers)2 servers MS Windows 2019 and MS SQL 2019Hostname: sql01Hostname: sql02 ** I can´t replicate the database between sql2014 and sql2019, because this replicator between theses versions is not supported. What has already been done:I made a restore of the SQL databases from lxpsql01 to sql01. Done and validate with DBAThen, the databases is in the Win2019 and SQL2019Now, i need to replicate the SQL database to another server: sql01 ==> sql02But when i use sql Live Sync options, the databases don´t appear in the GUI  ** in another server lxpsql01 made a test and appear, but the DBA need to change anything in the database and the DBA  said that it has already done this configuration on the new servers(win2019/sql2019)Has anyone ever experience this? I have opened another post about this Ms Sql configuration:https://community.commvault.com/technical-q-a-2/

hi, a customer did a security scan on there network.and it came back with the following incident:CPE:               cpe:/a:jquery:jquery:2.1.3Installed version: 2.1.3Location/URL:      https://hostame/webconsole/common/jsEOL version:       2EOL date:          unknown this version is very old, and flagged as out of support.the customer was wondering when this will be updated to a newer version.and how we would upgrade the version. kind Regards,Thos​ Gieskes.​​​​​​

Sorry another post about permissions. Have users with Permissions of “View” and “Report Management” at the Comcell level however not all reports (default Commvault ones) are available to see.For example the Health Report. Documentation (https://documentation.commvault.com/11.21/expert/96415_viewing_health_report_on_web_console_without_private_metrics_reporting_server.html) says need Report Management permissions but this doesn’t seem to be the case?Another example Disk Library Utilization Report (https://documentation.commvault.com/11.21/expert/38472_viewing_disk_library_utilization_report_on_web_console.html). Have the permissions it’s asking for but doesn’t show for the user.Any help on whether I’m interpreting the documentation wrong or if this is incorrect documentation would be helpful.  Thanks for responses in advance. 

Hello,I'm trying to build  a microstack environment.This one is  mounted on an Ubuntu 20.04 (100 Go with 192 M RAM)I have access to the dashboard and the deployment of cirros is ok.I downloaded the FREL openstack model on the platform but  impossible to deploy the instance.Are there any prerequisites for the deployment of the FREL Image ?thanks for your help

Goodmorning my people pls my DDB Average Q&I Time in last 3 days: is 2,925 µs (146%)now my question is, is there a way i can reduced it to at list 65% apart from moving it to from this media agent.

Hello, How to view a backup job that has expired last year?Just to know the time of a Full Backup Job last year, example, and the size. 

Hey Guys! Have a question about S3: Can S3 used like a regular NFS/NAS Library?Talking about Features like (VM)Archiving, Live Mount, Live Recovery?

We are looking into adding an additional layer of offsite backup storage. Amazon S3. The current idea would be add a 3rd copy to an existing storage policy. This copy would reflect the AWS S3 library. Can I Aux copy on premise backup data using physical on premise media agents directly to S3 Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you

Hi,A user that was once part of the master role group to assist with configuration of the platform has been moved to a different group that has fewer permissions however it looks like any configuration done by that user on an entity they retain more rights than that of the role they currently have on the entity? (Possibly some sort of creator role meaning you have full permissions?)how is best to ensure only permissions assigned to a role that is configured on the required entities is used going forward?thanks

Hi all, Question regarding plans in 11.21 again.In case we have the following settings: What will happen with the full backup, if this setting is disabled:  For me it’s confusing as according to the “full backup” switch, there is no full backup.also, why can we only modify the synthetic full options using the java console

We are a service provider with a lot of VM backups on a lot of different customers. We let the customers on they own decide what WM's to backup and not with the tagging option. For example, if a customer tag the VM with "NoBackup", that VM will automatically be excluded from VM backup. And if they later remove the tag from the VM, it will automatically be included in backup. The problem is that even if the VM is excluded from backup it will still be included in SLA as missed backup. We got a tip that we can create a server group in command center with automatic rule that includes all VM's with "NoBackup" tag and then disable that server group and that way exclude that from SLA. The problem with that is that the whole client is disabled and excluded. Inclusive agent backups. This means that if a customer disables the VM backup and still need to backup an application via agent backup, above method isn?t applicable. We need a method where only VM backup automatically is excluded when it's

Recently I tried to do a 1-touch restore from a windows client. It was to a physical server. It was a fairly new Dell PowerEdge R740. It had 16 GB of RAM.During the boot up i get this error message:There isn’t enough memory available to create a ramdisk device.Error code: 0xc0000017This only happens to the 1-touch iso’s with dell drivers. I tried it with other R740 servers and go the same result. I have ticket open with commvault but havent heard anything for a while.

Hi All,i have created some new GDSP and i notice that DDB are separate in 3 ID by type of backup (Files, Databases and VM)i have created this commserve (CS2) in FR20.11.22, (currently the commserve is in FR20.11.55).i have another commserve CS1 in the same version 11.20.55 but created in SP16. on this CS1 when i create a new GDSP there is only one ID for the DDB.Why i can’t create a DDB like in the CS2 ?How can i have the same type of DDB on all my Commserve ? Do they need to run a converison script ? or a patch ?Kind regards,Christophe