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  • March 25, 2026
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Good morning everyone.
I hope you are well.

I put them in context.
In the environment of one of my clients we perform weekly "Synthetic Full" backups to one of their user groups. These users within the group work as "Home Office", which is why backups were scheduled weekly, so as not to affect the SLA of the group. For this reason, some backup jobs are not executed and remain in pending status.

My doubt is:
For those backlogs, is there a way for Commvault to visualize the connected computers in the group and automatically retry pending jobs without having to run it manually?

I would greatly appreciate your support.
I remain attentive to your comments. Thank you.

Best answer by Pradeep

Hi ​@Acceso al wasabi con permisos ,

To automate starting a backup for a client as soon as it comes online, you can use a Commvault Workflow that Monitors the client’s online status. Triggers a backup job when the client is detected as online.

How to Implement . Use the "Check Readiness" Workflow

This workflow checks the connectivity of all client computers within a client group and verifies if they are online and ready to perform operations.

You can schedule this workflow to run at intervals, and when the client is online, proceed to trigger a backup.

https://documentation.commvault.com/11.40/software/predefined_workflows.html

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  • March 26, 2026

Hi ​@Acceso al wasabi con permisos ,

To automate starting a backup for a client as soon as it comes online, you can use a Commvault Workflow that Monitors the client’s online status. Triggers a backup job when the client is detected as online.

How to Implement . Use the "Check Readiness" Workflow

This workflow checks the connectivity of all client computers within a client group and verifies if they are online and ready to perform operations.

You can schedule this workflow to run at intervals, and when the client is online, proceed to trigger a backup.

https://documentation.commvault.com/11.40/software/predefined_workflows.html

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    Hi ​@Acceso al wasabi con permisos ,

    To automate starting a backup for a client as soon as it comes online, you can use a Commvault Workflow that Monitors the client’s online status. Triggers a backup job when the client is detected as online.

    How to Implement . Use the "Check Readiness" Workflow

    This workflow checks the connectivity of all client computers within a client group and verifies if they are online and ready to perform operations.

    You can schedule this workflow to run at intervals, and when the client is online, proceed to trigger a backup.

    https://documentation.commvault.com/11.40/software/predefined_workflows.html

    Thank you very much ​@Pradeep 
    I will review the documentation you provided and perform the test.
    If I have any other questions, could it bother you?

    Have a good day.

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