Commvault Cloud Topics

Hello,it is possible to deploy a Command center in Windows OS into a Linux Commserve on rhel ?because i need SSO for customer’s authentication. Kind regards, Christophe

Does Commvault provide a backup sizing tool (primary and secondary copies) which enables the calculation of the required storage capacity for the FET based on the required retention periods? 

Hi, Is it possible to set commvault to automatically retry the backup jobs for only failed vms or does this have to be done manually everytime?

Hi there,I backup a vm group on tape library for some technical reasons.For some backup jobs, data written on tape and Index information written on another tape.Can I include index information into backup data so I make sure that both be written on the same tape ?

HiWe have configured out DDB to spread across 4 Windows virtual machines. Out of 4 VMs we have lost access to 2 VMs. Backups are running as expected by using the remaining 2 VMs with DDB on that.Now we have freshly built new 2 VMs with Media Agent application components installed.My question is, how we can recover the DDB fragments which hosted on two lost VMs ? Is there a way to reconstruct the lost sections on to newly built 2 VMs ?We are on version 11.28.(2022 E).Appreciate your advise. Please feel free to ask any questions if you need further clarifications.Many thanks in advance.

Good morning,I have the following question to ask:In a Disaster Recovery scenario, how do I restore a VM from the Metallic backup to a new infrastructure? In my case in a new Nutanix cluster?Thank youCarmine

Hi All,- disk library DL1 with mount path X:\DL1- mount path X:\DL1 Capacity 100TB with Allocation Policy - Space Allocation "Do not consume more than 50TB" Q1. refer above, may we know Space Management - Space Thresholds refer which value for calculate %? 100TB or 50TB Q2. if Space Management - Start aging when data occupied on disk is 80%, will aging never start if refer value 100TB? Best regards

We have a number of Windows 2012 VMs running on ESX.    We are standing up new Windows 2022 server VMs to house the data on these VMs.   The goal is to swing Datastores from the old VMs to the new VMs.   Except for the OS, the VMs will be setup identically. Now, the Commvault backups for this data has been on unlimited hold since the dawn of time.   The servers themselves hold a grand total of about 100TB of files.    One AUX copy of the backup data is about 1PB in size.    I don’t want to add any more to this unlimited hold data copy.     If I keep the Commvault node name the same, can I avoid another full backup event for this data?   Or will the unique system identifier foil my plan?    I want it to back each server up incrementally on the first pass. (backing up only changed/new files).    Whaddaya think? Thanks!

Hello Commvault Community, A few days ago I configured some Auxiliary copy job from local MA to Cloud Library in Azure. I have noticed that some of the job use only one steam for the copy data. I am looking for reason why that behavior it takes place. The configuration is very simple:Media Agent with local copy → second copy in storage account Azure but connected to the same MA. I have the same configuration, but in different storage policy and in there the Copy is ongoing on tens of streams not only 1. Please help me to find out the reason of that property. Regards, Michal 

Hi All.Can someone please explain how data aging functions on an Indexing job?Referring to "https://community.commvault.com/self-hosted-q-a-2/why-are-index-server-jobs-agent-type-big-data-apps-being-retained-on-storage-longer-than-the-storage-policy-indicates-5132".I have a storage policy with several copies to different libraries. This is a mix of disk, S3 and S3 with Object Lock enabled.There are several Indexing Jobs which reside on the S3 library with Object Lock enabled but the dependent backup jobs are located on a different selective copy. Is there a way to have the Indexing jobs kept with the backup jobs or is this by design?The issue here is that the Object Lock enabled library is configured with 90 days retention and the other S3 library is configured with long-term retention varying between 365 days to 1825 days.The above behaviour is preventing the sealed DDBs from being removed when all backup jobs have met retention as the Indexing jobs are retained.I have seen the inform

How to 100% verify the policy is in use, or has been ?

Error Code: [17:176]Description: Failed to create VSS snapshot required to run system state backup. System state backup is skipped. VSS error [[0x80042306 2147754758] The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event logs for more information.]. Please refer VSS Event logs for more details.Source: <client name>, Process: clBackupI was asked by Server admin to answer/action following, which doesn’t make sense to me because I had have never to do this manually in past to stop VSS related error on windows file system backup.Even on the host having this issue started recently, but prior that there was no such error, The host in question runs win file system and sql level backup Question from System admin:“We need to know if that server is doing SQL backups with CommVault, this is to determine if VSS is trying to backup SQL (i.e. if CommVault backs up SQL, it should exclude SQL from the default Windows subclient. If this is not excluced, then CommVault will

Hi Vaulters, Hope everyone is doing well.We have a new commvault platform that will be installed, and we’ve been asked by our storage team what are the LUNs size that are needed for backed up data. In order for them to create and map them to our MediaAgents. So, it’s a sizing question. Are there any recommendations per Commvault or utility that can be used to help us decide what’s the best storage configuration will fit our needs ? Knowing that our platform will back up multiple workloads : VMs, FileSystems, DBs (SAP HANA), Mailboxes (Exchange), Active Directory ...etc. Any recommendation from you guys would be much appreciated.RegardS.

We have client Machine with OS Windows 10, OS is configured on RAID 1 with two disks, now We are trying to do Bare Metal Recovery of system, is it possible to dp BMR on RAID configured machines.

Hello Team, I have an requirement to add around 300+ mailboxes to Exch archive using command center and run.so trying to understand how can it be done in bulk because adding it one by one will a task for us.Request your suggestions...  

What is difference between secondary blocks and unique blocks in DDB

We observe that DDB Lookup raised upto ~70 % and consuming almost 15+Hours for ~6TB Data during incremental backupOur server plan includes 1 Full back up in every 14 days and incremental every day. We have 79 VMs producing ~85 GB Data per VM on daily run.

Hello,I have a question regarding secondary aux copy to tape.We have a storage policy where primary storage on disk with deduplication is on Media Agent 1. We have an Aux Copy to Tape, the tape library is on Media Agent 2. Where is the primary storage data rehydrated and stored before getting sent to the secondary copy?I guess I am looking how the data flows the from primary to the aux tape copy. Thanks in advance,Lance

Hi, I have a query about MediaExplorer usage for disk.We are sending the CSDB backups to Disk library(we dont have tapes).We regularly run reports for CSDB backup jobs. In case of disaster we will be having only JobID.The articles mentions to select volumeID where the CSDB job is writes.What report will collect the info about volume where the DR backup has written?Media Prediction report seems only applicable to tapes.Media Prediction Report - Overview and CommCell Configuration Report - Overview. https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/cataloging_media_using_media_explorer.html For a Disk Volume: Select the Disk option Browse to or type the drive path for the disk volume path. (For example, F:\, if F is the drive letter that holds the disk volume.) Optional: To add multiple mount paths, click Add Mount Paths. Directly beneath CV_magnetic folder, select the volume folder (V_nnn) in which the archive files reside, and click OK to continue.  

Hi,I can no longer restore a backup.Now clicking on Restore opens a blank page.The backup is hosted on server m.102I need your help.ThanksCarmine   

Hello Team i want to know if this is a normal process when i use Intellisnap restore with NetApp a new IGROUP created by Commvault and not getting deleted after the restore was completed this is a normal behavior ?  there is an option to automatically delete the netapp igroup once the restore was completed? 

I have a media server that has poor performance and was reading about using IOmeter to troubleshoot.  It states to convert the disk to MBR if using GPT.  I am wondering if GPT could be the reason for poor performance or if needing MBR is just an IOmeter limitation.Thanks.

So.. we have times when one of our customers would like to see a comprehensive display of what is being done and when on their servers, without the “lingo” thrown in.  Specifically, we’d love to see something like:ClientHostname Subclient What is backed up (in some form.. VM, FileSystem - what folders ) Where it’s backed up (from storage policy information) The schedule for when it’s backed up (from schedule policies) All backup jobs, including in the storage policy copies #1.1.1 will likely be a repeated column header with 1.1.2,3,4 repeated for each subclient.  Is there such a thing existing?  I’ve searched near and far but found nothing.  Also.. is there a data dictionary that can help with finding information with the datasets?  Or even reporting straight from SQL Server?  Finding the information in Management Studio seems tough.  I’ve actually copied it to SQL Server Express just to play with it w/o blowing up my whole installation. Thank you for any help!

Hi guys, Is there a way to remove the welcome banner below so its just a blank screen.