Commvault topics

Hello everyone, I'm in a situation that's causing me some discomfort. I have 15 VMs located in one region and I need to replicate these VMs to another region, all within the Google Cloud environment.To do this, I'm using 1 MediaAgent to perform the backup and replication operations. However, I'm noticing that it takes a very long time to complete the entire replication process, taking around 15 hours to complete successfully. The first time running the Job, Commvault said that the Application Size was of 7.22TB. And in the last incremental, the Application Size it’s of 112.44GB. Because of this long time, I’d like some tips to help reduce this time, if there’s any documentation that can help. Thanks, 🙂.

Hi Team, We are looking to configure media agents with active-active or active-standby with SAN attached disk library. Media agents are windows.Also we want to learn is there an option active-active or active-standby options with the Commvault.

Hello ; I have 2 Mysql Cluster running on the same version “8.0.20” and check configuration have been applied to both clusters and everything is fine. Check readiness is ok for both clusters. Also, FS backups for both clusters were fine, and FS our of place restore between both clusters. The issue in restoring the DB from one cluster to the second one is that the restore is starting and there has been no progress on both DBs cluster and everything is fine and check readiness is ok for both also FS Backup for both clusters were fine, also FS our of place restore between both cluster , the issue in restoring DB from one cluster to the second one, the restore starting and no progress on the job since job started and no data moved but the DB created on Mysql end but there is no progress from commcell side and job last time update was the same as the time of start job ?Commv. version 11.30.48.

Hello! Is it possible to automate the deployment of commserve with ansible? I would love to be able to bypass the menu prompts with variables when using ./cvpkgadd on linux.Thanks.

Hello, When we deployed Exchange Online backup couple of years back, we still used On-Prem AD. Now AD Team is migrating more and more to Azure AD, including shared mailbox delegation groups.We used these groups to provide Commvault the list of users that should have access to the archives of shared mailboxes. Given that the delegation groups now only exist in Azure AD, would there be a way to eitherconvert Exchange Online with On-Prem AD to Exchange Online with Azure AD or work with the new Azure AD objects to delegate shared mailboxes in Commvault?Our current setup is:Exchange Online with On-Prem AD End User authentication using SAML (Azure AD) as primary means of authentication. We still keep the On-Prem AD Domain Identity Server, SAML is Associated with the AD Domain. Thank you,Zoltan

What does the option Reconfigure mean?  

Good morning,I’m trying to wrap my head around the following case:Let’s say there are two virtual machines, each with one 100 GB VMDK file (let’s ignore other files such as swap, etc. for the sake of this example). Each OS consumes 30 GB in total (Windows + Data).VM A - VMDK 100 GB, filled with 30 GB of data, thin provisioningVM B - VMDK 100 GB, filled with 30 GB of data, thick provisioningThe question is: will the full backup for VM A and VM B be of the same size (more or less) regardless the provisioning configured for each disk?The idea behind this question is to know whether thin provisioning speeds up the backup process and consumes less storage at the end of the day (especially considering that we’re running out of backup storage).Regards,

Hi All,i’m using Commvault from several year. I‘m used to work with the Commcell Console but the command center become very useful and simple for commcell administration.for new customers (not on hyperscaleX) i would like to only make them use the command center because it’s easier to use than Commcell console and also ,comparing to other product, the commvault “complexity” should not be an argument anymore.in the command center some advanced configurations seems to be missing.how to configure a media agent gristore in the command center ?thanks in advanceChristophe

I am using http request in workflow which is in running in loop to run vm level backup. as an output it returns output for each http request as show below [{ "taskId":250501,"jobIds":[ "21035126" ] },{ "taskId":250502,"jobIds":[ "21035127" ]  I want to fetch the jobids from this and add it is list. How can this be achieved.

Hello, I´m pretty new to Commvault and starting with the first steps.I have the problem that I have 8TB local storage in my media agent and formatted as 64k. Created a mount path but it shows only a couple of GBs usable. What can I do to recognize it correctly?The old hardware is the same way connected.  Thanks in advance for your help. Greetings from a newbie

We’d like to use Auto recovery for Azure VM, replicate Azure VM from region 1  to region 2, may I know how it workes? Create Azure VM snapshot then replicate to remote site? or streaming backup and replicate to remote site.

Hi, When I fully backup an instance using the XtraBackup utility, the tables are locked and the DB cannot be accessed.How can I fix it?   ​​​​​​ 

Hi,We are trying to create a role for a specific user that only needs to do remote qlogin from a linux client computer and triger a backup for the same client.What will be the minimium required CV priviliges to do it ? Thanks

Hi All. I have a HyperScale 1.5 setup, with HBA cards installed on the nodes to be able to do VSA SAN backups.I have configured the multipath.conf to use round-robin, so the HBA card will utilize both ports on the card I have noticed that even though round-robin have been configured, it seems that only on port is utilized and that the port being used is then being maxed out.Do I miss somewhere in the HyperScale configuration where I can set the multipath setting or does anyone have any suggestions on how to utilize both ports on the HBA in a HyperScale setup? Regards-Anders

Hi all,I’m about to renew my license and intend to increase it for the first time.I’d be happy if anyone can help with questions or direct me to a thread where it was already answered. Have VM Socket licensing that I understand is deprecated and at some point will be turned to 10 VM pack license although it’s perpetual license. Is that true? when will existing license will be turned to VM packs? I heard around 2025 If socket license turns to VM packs, what is the ratio I should expect will remain? for example, one perpetual socket license turns to X VM packs? if so, how many? I have 2 SKU almost the same. can someone explain the difference?Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery for Endpoints, Per User    CV-BR-EPCommvault Complete Backup & Recovery - Per Front-End TB    CV-BR-FT and:Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery for Endpoints, Per User    CV-BKRC-EP-11Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery - Per Front-End TB    CV-BKRC-FT-11  thank you all in advance!

I am planning on implementing 2FA (probably with Microsoft Authenticator) on my Commserve (not Metallic).  Has anyone done this and are there any “gotcha’s” I need to be aware of.  I would only want 2FA for domain users not my local commvault admin account. Thanks

I am having issues with my Weekly Tape Copy Storage Policy. I already opened a case with Commvault, but they still couldn't find a solution. The Monthly policy works fine, so I don’t think the issue is our tape library. Is anyone here had the same issue?Error Code: [13:138]Description: Error occurred while processing chunk [4862646] in media [V_174502], at the time of error in library [XXX_MA1_DISKLIB] and mount path [[XXXX-backup-ma1] H:\XXXXX_DEDUP], for storage policy [XXXXX-FS-DEDUP] copy [3 - Weekly Tape Copy] MediaAgent [XXXXX]: Backup Job [314419]. Unable to setup the copy pipeline. Please check connectivity between Source MA [XXXX] and Destination MA [XXXXX]. Source: XXXXX, Process: CVJobReplicatorODSError occurred while processing chunk [4863263] in media [V_174502], at the time of error in library [XXXX_MA1_DISKLIB] and mount path [[XXXX-backup-ma1] H:\XXXX_DEDUP], for storage policy [XXXX-FS-DEDUP] copy [3 - Weekly Tape Copy] MediaAgent [XXXXX]: Backup Job [314455]. Unable t

Hi,we would like to have an environment consisting of one Active CS host in the production site and one Standby CS host in a DR Site. Also we would like to enable automatic failover. And CS host will act as proxy for the client. Commvault documentation, at least for me, is not clear about all the ports that we need to open.Could you please help me find out?I understood that ports 8405 and 8408 and also 8090, 8091, 8097 for HAC needs to be open between the two CS, both direction.But I’m not sure which ports I need to open from the clients to both proxy CS.In the documentation it says “If the SQL clients are used as the proxy, verify that all the clients in the CommCell environment can communicate with the port and hostname of the SQL clients in both the active host and the passive CommServe hosts.” https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/106081_planning_for_commserve_livesync_setup.html Thanks

Hi guys,I have a question, When we have 2 tape libraries at 2 different sites but each site has the same barcode, is that possible?Thanks

Some Background - I’ve worked off and on with Commvault over the past several years and we currently are migrating data from a cloud-vendor back to on prem.  The question I have is about a behavior I’ve never noticed before, but is probably from a lack of experience staring this closely at jobs as they run rather than something going wrong.  I just want to understand it.The AUX copy that is currently running has 2 streams remaining.  Last Friday 11/22, those two streams showing the following information:STREAM 1:Data to be Copied - 4.06 TBData Copied - 263.63 GBSTREAM 2:Data to be Copied - 926.14 GBData Copied - 221.9 GBThen this morning I log in to check up on the job and those same streams now show this:STREAM 1:Data to be Copied - 3.43 TBData Copied - 575.65 GBSTREAM 2:Data to be Copied - 842.33 GBData Copied - 298.26 GBOver the past week as I’ve been monitoring these two streams I’ve noticed these numbers shift in a way that the “Data to be Copied” amount shrinks and the “Data Copi

Hello,When retiering a Windows cluster that is backedup with commvault cluster client. Is it just to retiere the nodes or is there anything additional that is needed? BRHenke

Hello Community, The domain controller is currently hosted in vCenter. Our plan involves replicating the domain controller from one site to another using Commvault VMware Live Sync.Questions :Is Commvault support this, and are there any considerations specific to DC live sync? Our primary concern around the trust relationship. If the source DC VM becomes unavailable and we need to power on the replica in the DR site without the latest replication, there's a potential risk of breaking the trust relationship? Are there any other critical aspects we should take into consideration in this scenario? thanks

Hi Community,I can’t find anything therefore in the commvault documentation or somewere else.Does Commvault support the Oracle Easy Connect Naming Method?https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/18/ntcli/specifying-a-connection-by-using-the-easy-connect-naming-method.html#GUID-1035ABB3-5ADE-4697-A5F8-28F9F79A7504Thank you for answers.Tobi

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Hello Team,Is there a way to determine storage allocation per server on a primary disk copy?I’ve tried to run reports, use Command Center and I can’t seem to find any options to include particular servers and then see how much space their backups are consuming on our primary disk copy. Thanks!