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VijoByte
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Movinng Physical Server (Media Agent) from one location to another As Business Requested

Hi Good morning Team,In my environment we do have One Commserve two Media Agents ,the Two Media agents are Physical Window Boxes each media Agent associated 250 Clients machines each media agent having separate Libraries with two dedicated Media Paths which are conneted to Cmode Netapp storage ,now we have got request to move one of the media agent from current location to another location ( Lift and shift ) , so,as per my knowledge while lift and shift the media agent should be in maintenance mode and all the services will be disconnect from Commserve and start the movement , after reached the  media agent to destination location as per the location we need to change the IP as per that location and bring back to the up the machine , then we need to start all the services from commserve and media agents . But still i need more steps to perform this activity as below so if you can help it may well and much appreciate before Moving what are the steps Follow ? what steps should we do with

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
4 months ago
S
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Sergio VByte
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VIRTUAL TO PHYSICAL CONVERSION

Hi, Is there any way to convert a virtual machine to a physical machine with CommVault?I was thinking about using 1-touch on a virtual machine. Would it let me restore that VM on a physical server? Thanks.Sergio

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Vaulter
4 months ago
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Command Center error
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Command Center error

I can't open command center, what can I do here?

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V
Vaulter
5 months ago
M
Byte
MansoorByte
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Sybase Agent installation

What is the Unix group we need to use to install sybase commvault agent on Sybase server. 

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M
Vaulter
5 months ago
C
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chelydridaeBit
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Backup Cloudian S3 Bucket (source) to other library (dest)

We need to backup S3 buckets residing on Cloudian as platform.According to the ‘Essentials’ documentation the repository can be added in the AdminConsole under Protect > Object storage.But in our Console of v11.28.14 there is no “Object Storage” - are we missing a license?So I switched to the ‘Expert’ documentation, which outlines everything for the Java CommCell Console.I was able to create the pseudo-client for the Cloud Apps and create an instance, pointing to our Cloudian system at https://s3-somethingAs ‘Authentication Type’ I use ‘Access and secret keys’ and prepared beforehand in the Credential Manager a ‘Cloud Account’ with vendor type ‘Cloudian HyperStore’ and filled in Access- and Secret Key.But to my surprise, the Credential drop-down only lists credential of the type “Amazon Web Services(Access&Secret Keys)” - so of what use is the Cloudian-Type?Long story short: despite it seems to be able to read the content of the bucket (get/dir, /fileList) it copies nothing and

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
5 months ago
F
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FeRoxByte
posted in Commvault setup guides and getting started

Install HP-UX

Hello Friends, I need your valuable help.I have tried to install commvault on HP-UX of which I have attached an image, could any of you tell me if you have been able to install it? or it is definitely not supported?Thanks for your help.  

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
5 months ago
P
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ptmorrisByte
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PowerShell SDK v1 Get-CVVirtualMachine broken after upgarde to 11.28.19

I have been using the Commvault Powershell module v1 with great success for a while now.  Today I noticed at least 1 cmdlet is broken since upgrading some Commcells to 11.28.19.  Using Get-CVVirtualMachine, I have tested against multiple Commserves now and all just return VM not found or No VM’s found if you run with no parameters.  Normally this would return details for the specified VM or all VM’s if no parameter is used. I do have 1 Commcell still on 11.16 and the cmdlet still works fine.  This leads me to believe something is broken for this particular cmdlet in the newer versions of Commvault. I was curious if anyone else having this issue?  Or any problems with any other cmdlets from v1? Thanks

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P
Byte
5 months ago
J
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JosephBit
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Should I access the CommCell Utility installed directly on the CommServe Server

We are currently accessing our Java GUI CommCell Console and SQL Server Management Studio, installed directly on the CommServe Server. According to the link found below, CommVault recommends installing these Management Utilities on a Proxy server, as the extract hereafter specifies:“Do not log on to the CommServe or MediaAgent computer directly. Instead, do the following:Use a virtual machine proxy computer that has the JAVA GUI and SQL Management Studio installed.Log on to the CommCell Console, and then access the MediaAgent computer.”https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11_sp20/article?p=7885_1.htm Is this indeed the recommended practice, or are we okay leaving and accessing the CommCell Console directly on the CommServe Server (we are not accessing the Media Agents directly for management purposes)?Thank you. J

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G
Vaulter
5 months ago
HenkR
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HenkRByte
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SELinux hardening denied Commvault files but everything works.

Hi, Does any one know how to handle or fix this, within a hardened linux/rhel mediaagent server with selinux? audit.log:type=AVC msg=audit(1662726564.338:34): avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=2248 comm="Galaxy" name="Galaxy.env" dev="sdb3" ino=45978 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0 Henk

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HenkR
Byte
5 months ago
A
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Ayman SeyamByte
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CommVault new implementation failed due to Could not start the service MSSQL$Commvault

CommVault installation failed when preconfigure workflow engine and i check the log found that error ​​​​​​Could not start the service MSSQL$Commvault

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Jos Meijer
Commvault Certified Expert
6 months ago
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FlorianSchoenheimBit
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VTL 2.0

Hi, does anyone has experience with VTL 2.0 feature?https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/135517_commvault_vtl_20.htmlWe tried to install the RPM but this already failed with this error:error: too many arguments to function ‘blkdev_issue_flush’ I was able to fix this with rebuilding the RPM and software is running now.Now WebUI is running, but I´m not able to add users for login:/commvaultvtl/bin/vtuser -a -u admin -p <password>Invalid user name/commvaultvtl/bin/vtuser -a -u vtladmin -p <password>Failed to add user. Reply from server is : There is no error message or anything else.  Florian

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
6 months ago
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ILYA KANTOROVICHBit
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Office 365 In-Place Archiving

Is it possible to back up In-Place Archiving of 365? I have an organization that uses In-Place Archiving for users and folders are not backed up, is it possible to change this/back up in a certain way? 

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I
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6 months ago
F
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Felix B.Bit
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Problem with client name after Commcell server switch

Hello,We recently moved Commvault/Commcell to a new server (same domain) because the old one did not have enough place on it for the disks backups.We had it installed on a server named SPGEOFS01We moved it (the technician) on new server called SVGEOCVCSNow, the name on the new client still is SPGEOFS01 I want to add the old Commvault server that still exists and was wiped to host data (SPGEOFS01) But I get conflicts since the name has not changed to SVGEOCVCS everywhere and it tells me that the client already exists.Did our technician do something wrong during the switch ? How can I fix this ? He says it can be days before he finds a solution. Thank you for your help,Felix         

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Jos Meijer
Commvault Certified Expert
7 months ago
S
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ShrikantYeoleByte
posted in Commvault setup guides and getting started

Backup media library high availability using Commvault and GCP multi-region GCP storage buckets

As a part of the architecting media library for GCP cloud to ensure redundancy, availability across regions, low latency, and cost optimization have selected GCP cloud storage multi region nearline buckets.Considerations:In GCP there are 4 types of storage class and differentiated in terms of cost of storage, location, retrieval, and operations, you can choose best as per your requirement for retention data.For high availability of storage, GCP provides multi-regional buckets in which objects are geo-redundant stored redundantly in at least two separate geographic places separated by at least 100 miles. As multiregional storage is geo redundant no need to setup secondary copy for high availability purpose this will also save the storage cost. This also enables you to share same storage to media agents in another region to restore data from same buckets if required.Configuring GCS bucket:In order to secure data, we have restricted public access and configured permissions which restrict

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S
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7 months ago
D
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Dmitriy611Byte
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full backups are not start

Hello. Volumes were combined on the storage, the size of the two volumes became more than 50 tb. And now, out of 8 volumes, 2 volumes are not running full backups and even increments are not starting. Job starts, but progress stands still. 

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J
Vaulter
7 months ago
C
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CGSBit
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Looking to create an aux copy to AWS S3 bucket from ON Prem media agents

I’m Looking to create an aux copy to an AWS S3 bucket from ON Prem hyperscalers.  What are best practices in terms of enabling WORM on the bucket?  Is there anything that needs to be done with the ddb on the hyperscalers in terms of operations/maintenance?  Thanks.

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C
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7 months ago
K
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KuwsBit
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Alicloud and Commvault

Hi All, I have some question about Commvault on Alicloud.Currently, all my CommServe, media agent and clients are On Prem. As i plan to do restoration for my On Prem backup to Alicloud ECSI have done create Proxy VM at Alicloud ECS.Next, i wish to know what port should be open in order my On Prem data able to restore to Alicloud ECS. And which server need to open those port.    

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
7 months ago
C
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ChuckCByte
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AWS - Commvault - Cassandra Backups

We had a working Cassandra backup (6 nodes) in a production VPC.  Recently DBA’s added “DR nodes” from a different DC as part of the cluster.  Now the backup is picking up all nodes and failing.  Is there away to restrict what nodes we will be backing up?  Basically nodes from dc1 are porduction and dc2 are DR.  we only want to backup dc1.Thanks for any help you can give.Chuck

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
8 months ago
A
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Anand KByte
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Exchange 2019 DB Backup failure due to VSS

Hello Team, We are configuring Exchange 2019 DB backup, while running backup it's showing an VSS related errors.The exchange DAG is configured IP less and without DNS feature. While adding DAG client in commcell is successfully added and discover DB also with out any issue. We checked DAG client check readiness, its showing communication error. Please advise any specific configuration needed for DAG IP less feature.

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Emils
Vaulter
8 months ago
K
Byte
kumarByte
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Added new SQL server in commvault

Hi Team, I had just added new SQL server into Commvault but while scheduler job is running i am getting below error Description: Failed to validate the credentials for instance [<instance name>]. Please make sure the provided user [c<username>] has the sysadmin role.

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O
Vaulter
10 months ago
K
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kumarByte
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getting below error when job scheduler is running 

Hi team,I am getting below error when job scheduler is running  Unable to communicate with the remote machine [zewpgtssvcvma01.corp.pri] to start the Data Pipe. Please check the network connectivity between the local machine and the remote machine and verify this product's Communications Service is running on the remote machine. Source: zewpgtsdbpa01, Process: SQLiDA

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
10 months ago
R
Byte
r0lansaadByte
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Unable to perform CV Failover due to error about sqladmin_cv login

I am completed a setup of CV failover and configured Livesync. the logshipping backup was successful and replication to standby CV is also successful. Then trying to perform failover to standby CV. During CV failover process the operation is failing due to Connecting to the database failed - error returned was Login failed for user sqladmin_cv.Then I tried to reset the password of sqladmin_cv from SQL Server management studio but still failed to complete the failover due to login.Would anyone has an idea on how to fix the issue?

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Jos Meijer
Commvault Certified Expert
10 months ago
C
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CostaBit
asked in Commvault setup guides and getting started

storage policy icons prohibited status

What does mean the red icon, storage policy icons prohibited status

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C
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11 months ago
D
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DheerajBit
asked in Commvault setup guides and getting started

backup details from python sdk

Please suggest me which python script to fetch backup time of agent which we install in client machine & backup done details of backup (Like - Time ,Status,Backup Size)I’m trying with this https://github.com/Commvault/cvpysdk/blob/master/cvpysdk/reports/report.pysome part of the code like backup job summary & report but i didn’t get the details.Thank in Advance

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
11 months ago
R
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r0lansaadByte
asked in Commvault setup guides and getting started

Upgrade from version 11.20 to 11.26 (Latest release)

Hi,We are planning to upgrade our commvault software version 11.20.46 to the latest 11.26.x (If still supported). Below are our inquiry. If our active Capacity license can cover to perform or assist us on the upgrade by the help of CV Support team? Under Commcell Environment Upgrades documentation, we can see a lot of information's about the upgrade and procedures. Being new to this backup software this cause confusion. Is there a way to provide a specific upgrade procedure base from our current setup/environment including compute requirements? (see our current Commcell environment below) Other component that need to upgrade and procedure as wellOur Commcell Environment:Commvault software version 11.20.46 Target version is 11.20.26 we have a CVFailover in our CommCell environment. Mixed hypervisor VMware, RHOSP, RHV to backup virtual machine Backup of Client application Oracle, Oracle RAC, MSSQL, MySQL, Kubernetes Let me know if I missed some info that is important to the upgrade. Appr

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Jos Meijer
Commvault Certified Expert
11 months ago

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