Commvault topics

   We are using Intellisnap VMware backups.  We are also using Gridstor.    When the snapbackups kick off, many of them after the discovery phase, go to Waiting.   The phase shows as BCD Index Restore.   The job will wait for 20 minutes before continuing.   This delay is frustrating.   I am able to work around this if I am watching the backups kick off, by suspend and resume the jobs.  They will start running immediately with no issue.  In reality, the BCD index restore runs so quickly in the background, there is no reason to wait 20 minutes.  This just delays my backups getting done and off site.  Does anyone else notice this issue?   I have opened tickets with support and eventually they tell me is is working as designed. :-(

Hi,I saw an online video for backup of Office 365 on youtube and it shows 4 options and one of them was “Exchange Online (Access Through Azure Active Directory)” option. However in our Commserv there are only 3 options showing and that option is missing. We only have Azure AD so the option of Exchange Online (Access through On-premise Active Directory) is not a valid option for us.  We are looking explicitly for Exchange Online (Access Through Azure Active Directory). Can any one point as to why this option is not visible or what we should do in our case since we dont have an on-premise AD?ThanksFahad  

Just wondering…Background: I’ve been recently running “CVDiskPerf -PATH (a folder) -OUTFILE (a log file)” vias it appears we might be getting low read throughput to locally mounted storage on my media agents and I’m getting vastly different readings.  Like 400 GB/hr for one run, then a few minutes later 1500 GB/hr.  I know there will be “some variance” but i was under the impression that this tool would probably “run for a bit” and give a more solid reading.  our storage nor our servers running CommVault are showing CPU or “IOPS pressure” in any metric that shows they aren’t able to handle more load/throughput. Before I started running this tool I was under the impression it would “work a little harder” to get throughput stats and not finish in a minute (like it would really try to push a limit of CPU/throughput/etc and the storage system would notice it as it was getting fed a lot of read/write requests).  Currently the storage system doesn’t register a blip when it runs, making me fe

Hi,I’m trying to restore data from tape and when it attempts to restore the Index I receive the following errors:Error: Unable to find/get index in the cache for [SubClient_81] at time [Fri May 5 14:14:14 2023]. Backup data browse in subclient [1032011_SERVERNAME\Windows File System\BackupSet_1032011_33_45\Subclient_81] not completed due to failed index cache restore. Media with barcode [ARM960L7]. side [A_1125], mounted on library [IBM 3573-TL 16] and drive [IBM ULT3580-HH7_1] on MediaAgent [SERVERNAME]. Mountpoint [\\.\Tape0] for job [313813].  Media block size is [64k].  Mount finished in [39] secondsI can see the tape that contains the Index is mounted into the Tape Drive and from there when it attempts to restore the Index I receive the following errors above.Has anyone seen this issue before? Thanks all

GreetingsI'm having an error when I restore a linux Ubuntu20.04 VM to VMWare the error that returns is this: I'm doing a virtual machine migration test from Huawei's FusionCloud platform to VMware, and with that I'm using VMWare - Converter to run it.When the migration finishes I have this initrd error to recreate the server. Can you help to overcome this error?Thanks if you have any tips

I'm trying to install the agent in the virtual machine with debian 10 but it returns the following error when I do the command .\cvpgaddSee:root@rai-tst-ligsmart-01:~/Simpana_10/Linux# ./cvpkgaddPreparing and updating installer ...Segmentation fault*** Wrong version of ksh: /root/Simpana_10/Linux/linux-glibc2.3-x86_64/CVGxBase0/ksh. 

Hey everyone, we currently have two servers, one server is automatically deleting data every day from subfolders and the  otherserver is a SCCM server where changes happen daily. After almost a month Commvault is still "complaining" about thies two servers and every day "Clear anormaly" is executed. My idea is to exclude these folders. But is there another possibility ? Maybe you can teach Commvault to ignore the folders by itself. 

Hi, did any one know where and how to change the URLS for the ribbons/buttons in the java gui vor HealtstatusSLA STatuscommandcenter There is an wrong url at our enviroment. 

2023-07-04T02:01:45.304060-04:00 servername kernel: [1631379.901772] brrestore[16118]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f25f6909757 sp 00007ffd5db61298 error 4 in libc-2.22.so[7f25f686d000+19b000]2023-07-04T02:01:45.304441-04:00 servername systemd-coredump[16178]: AT_NULL terminator not found, cannot parse auxv structure.2023-07-04T02:02:35.956069-04:00 servername kernel: [1631430.549862] brrestore[16462]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f5cdfddc757 sp 00007ffed969f428 error 4 in libc-2.22.so[7f5cdfd40000+19b000]2023-07-04T02:02:35.962341-04:00 servername systemd-coredump[16959]: AT_NULL terminator not found, cannot parse auxv structure.2023-07-04T02:05:06.732062-04:00 servername kernel: [1631581.312128] brrestore[17123]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f69d4fc1757 sp 00007ffd1f7057c8 error 4 in libc-2.22.so[7f69d4f25000+19b000]

Hello, Customer is backing up a linux fs using fs iDA. Some incrementals are getting too big. Is there a way to show to the customer what accounted for that incremental growth? Regards,Pedro

Hey Guys!I have no experience in automation. I want to apply for a job that requires IaC. That's all that I know. I don't know what kind of IaC they are talking about. It's a large enterprise environment.  What are your CommVault IaC solutions? There are different solutions, like Ansible. What is supported by CommVault, or what solution works best for you? I know you can save as script, write qcommand scripts, using the Powershell cmdlet, but what is more common nowadays?  What are the benefits of your IaC solutions, why did you implement it, what are the best use cases, and why was it your best decision, otherwise, what do you dislike, and what are some downsides? What kind of automation does not work with CommVault but would be great, what are some features which are you waiting for? Thank you a lot! Kr

Dear All ,i need some clarification on the below , we have depoloyed hyperscal x nodes and started backup activities , we would like to harden the security , we are planning to perform the following ,1> Enabling ransdomware protection on hyperscale nodes2> currently encryptions are not set global ddb or storage polocy ,storage pool or client side , i would like to where we is it better to enable the encrpytion3> enabling retention lock or WORM  - best practices to achieve immutability 4> disabling root account access since the backup operation already started to hyperscale x cluster ,above activities affect the operations ?is there anything to be taken care before performing this , also do we have any evidence to show  that the backed up data are write protected and wont be able to modified    

Hello all We have a problem with Commvault resources usage on the IBM Spectrum Scale server. During the backup at the scanning phase, Commvault uses more than 60% of CPU and RAM  OS: AIXhow can we allocate resources to Commvault not exceeding it?more explanation why Commvault uses RAM?  

Hello Community our DBA is requesting assistance in retrieving the MSSQL LSN number from the Commvault log.For this MSSQL AG (Availability Group) backup, I accessed the active node during the backup process and examined the sqlida.log file. However, despite increasing the SQLIDA debug level to 10, the LSN information does not appear to be present in the log. Just discovered that the LSN information can be found in the sqlbackup.log file only. However, I'm curious as to why certain SQL servers have both the sqlbackup module and the sqldia module, while others only have the sqldia module.

Hello,I have an issue that all browse for vmware VMs are failed - with error - “live browse enumeration failed”I can see that there is a mount in the MA folder for mounts (\installfolder\pseudomount\persistent\pseudodevices\I try to reboot the cmmvault services on the MA and also to reboot the server - the mount does not get releasedcan I manually delete it?  Best regards

I want to explain a problem we have:Hardware WORM was active on all of our disk libraries. We are not aware of having activated this functionality and as support indicated, there is no trace that we have executed a workflow to activate it.Despite that, the WORM functionality was not active in any of our Storage Policies, only at the disk library level. We could change the retention of our copies, delete backups, micro-prunning working, and our databases were NEVER sealed. We updated version 11.28 to 11.30 and suddenly the “WORM Storage” feature is activated in ALL storage policies at storage pool level.As per the below document, this changes are applied on SP30 onwards, if hardware WORM is enabled:https://documentation.commvault.com/2023/essential/149133_changes_in_commvault_platform_release_2023.html Now we cannot delete backups, nor change the retention of our copies and ALL databases will be sealed every X days, micro-prunning disable. In addition, we have not been able to plan the

Hello, I have a fresh installation of Commvault version 11.28.56. I am attempting to connect to our vCenter instance through the Command Center GUI. After putting in the information to ‘Add Hypervisor’ I receive a ‘Request body is empty or format is invalid.’ error. Clicking equivalent API shows the following:{  "vcenterHostName": "172.16.123.10",  "name": "vCenter",  "accessNodes": [    {      "id": 2,      "name": "n1-prod-commvlt"    }  ],  "userName": "vsphere.local\\administrator",  "password": "cGFzc3dvcmQ=",  "hypervisorType": "VMware",  "skipCredentialValidation": false} Attached is the error. I have tried vsphere.local\administrator, administrator@vsphere.local, and a Windows AD account. I ensured the ‘VSA’ software was installed on the access node. Any help is appreciated!Error 

Hi All,How to update media agents after upgrading Commcell from 11.21 to 11.28

I accidentally backed up all of the content on my file server and didn’t mean to. Now my local storage is out of space and I don’t want this copied to MRR secondary.Is there a way for me to delete the jobs? 

Hi guys,has anyone experience with iSCSI-attached tape libraries and the sharing of the drives? It should work, but it is not really documentated and I am concerned about performance, stability and functionality. Even more, if only one network is available for both, regular network traffic and iSCSI connection. Any information/experiences would be apreciated. thanks a lot!

Hi Vaulters, I tried to update the Hedvig from 4.7.6 to latest release but faced some issues and execution failed on these line…yum command [yum --assumeno update] failed [1]2023-07-11 03:44:42,115 - cvupgradeos - ERROR - /opt/commvault/MediaAgent64/cvupgrade_common.py:825:run_yum_command() - yum command [yum -y update perl_controller infra_controller] failed [1]...  

Hi All, We have Linux cluster with shared disks. Both servers are resides on a VMWare environment. Due to a VMWare issue we cannot take snapshot of the vms. Now we want to backup these VMs from commvault. We are currently takin backups from few file systems on these VMs.I tried to enable 1-Touch recovery and initiate a full backup. Backup fails on “Backup” phase showing following error. +++++++++++++++++++Enor Code: [82: 172]Description: Could not connect to the DeDuplication Database process for Store ld[33].+++++++++++++++++++ This mentioned DeDuplication Database is online and shows no errors. When removed 1-Touch backup is running smoothly. 

Just few questions ,we are having hyperscale x nodes , we have standard storage policy - primary copies - are the backup data in this are WORM by default ? can it be modified ? also what about immutability , do we need to perform Enable Retention Lock Workflow. to achieve immutability ??if we have storage policy encryption , do we need to do Software Encryption on HyperScale Storage

Hello there,We’ve tried to upgrade our commserv from 11.24 to 11.28, but it failed ob the database upgradewith this error :Cannot create more than one clustered index on table 'JMJobOptions'. Drop the existing clustered index 'JMJobOptions_jobId_commCellId_attributeId_idx' before creating anotherour commserv is a Microsoft Server 2022, SQL version 2019.Does anybody has already met with a similar issue?

I’d like to perform the steps to enable ‘Reconcile Backup’ that are outlined in the document below via the API. I can’t find the details via standard API calls or a relevant qscript to GET or SET the reconcile backup setting, does anyone have any guidance as to how I can achieve this?https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/144833_reconciling_backups_of_windows_file_system_subclients.htmlMany thanks