SaaS (Metallic) Q&A

HiI received an alert recently on my O365 usage being exceeded. Whom can I reach to discuss and review this overage and process to purchase additional capacity---Metallic Office 365 - Capacity Usage AlertThe following subscription in <mycompany> has exceeded 100% of purchased capacity.Metallic Office 365 - CapacityWe have begun a 60-day grace period before pausing backups and you now have 57 days remaining. If capacity continues to exceed 100% after the grace period, backups will be paused.To purchase additional users or storage capacity, please contact your Commvault customer success manager or Commvault reseller partner.You can view your Metallic Office 365 - Capacity usage report here.To delete content, please refer to Best Practices for Reducing Storage Usage.----

We use metallic to backup our azure VMs using the metallic hot storage. Both are in east us. We have on-prem servers that are hosted on a hyper-v that we would also like to back up to the hot storage. How should we go about it? The on-prem location has a site-to-site with our azure environment. Should we create the gateway on an azure vm or an on prem vm? What about the proxy server? I would like to minimize costs as much as possible.Thanks in advance! 

Hi All.We are looking to configure a secondary copy from on-premises into Metallic storage. We’ve had storage provisioned by Metallic and this storage has been added into CommServe successfully and is showing as Ready.Now, to avoid impact to our Internet connections, we are will be using a different WAN connection, and have a supportive network design established to carry the data across our secure WAN and eventually ingress into Metallic via an Express Route.I am aware of this article https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/essential/145407_configuring_azure_expressroute_and_private_link.html which has helped us understand what is required to permit connectivity from our Azure virtual network across to Metallic.The query I do have however is:After the cloud storage is added as a Library and assigned to Media Agents - I see there isn’t really any further configurables to ensure data is written actually honours the network path/routing we desire it to take. I would have expected a DNS n

Hi all,We are reviewing our O365 Plan’s retention period. There are two settings 1. Retention 2. Version retention. I can’t find any documentation on Commvault website to explain each of these settings. Can someone please help to explain it a bit?Q1. Does every deleted items older than Retention get deleted? (e.g. a deleted email in an active mailbox that has passed the retention period will get deleted from backup?) Or, it only look at account level? (e.g. everything in a deleted account passed the retention period will get deleted, otherwise it stays)Q2. What exactly Version retention does? All our plan have this on infinite. How does this setting change the backup if we set it to 7 years?Any information will help. Thanks in advance,YC

Hello Community I wonder if anyone in the Community can guide me here.  We are going to do away with our current DASH copies to our DR site and instead create a new copy on each Storage Policy to go to MRR instead.  However I was hoping someone could answer a couple of questions on this Is the first copy that goes to MRR a full copy even though its going to be DASH copies   going up to this storage area? Our network team have asked me what the initial backup size will be so they can calculate the time the first job will take if it has to a full.  I have looked at reporting, but what report do I run to see what the full backup (if it is this) size will be on one Storage Policy?  Its only the DASH copies which will be going up to MRR.Any help on the above would be greatly appreciated. Kind regardsTonyQ

Hi All,I’m trying to create a Visio to document how the backup flow from our O365 tenant to Metallic tenant/data stores. Only basic flow I found on the documentation is this onehttps://docs.metallic.io/metallic/120504_office_365.htmlWondering if anyone has anything that have more details, showing the APIs involved, Enterprise Application on AAD, etc.  Please point me in the right direction.Thanks  

Hi All, i have created an azure app , and followed the prcedures from metallic document for the saml integration , i have added one group in the azure app , and tested , it doesnt work, i have added a user in the azure app and created same user in the metallic as external user it worked , what is the procedure to add a external group of azure ad to metallic i have tried to add a local group of same name of azure ad group, but i dont find any option to add role and permission for that group as tenant user or adminall i can see a associated entities , where i get to add certail roles , can someone clarify the exact steps to follow 

Hello everyone,I am trying to push the company I work for into retiring Tape Backups and get more into cloud storage.  I am working with our Reps for pricing, but I do have one question that I know will come up to a degree.  Currently we backup our VM’s over multiple tapes,  The jobs do a few VM’s depending on what they do so one job may backup 7-10 VMs and span them over a tape or two.  If we point these Aux to the Cloud instead of tape when I go to restore from the Metallic Recovery Reserve will Commvault need to download the entire “tape” of that backup or can it pick what it needs from that one file?  Also if it does have to download everything where does that get stored while its restoring.  The reason I ask is if I will need to redo my VM backups and just put them all on separate jobs.  It may be a simple question but I figured I would ask here about it.  Thank you for any info you can give.

Is there a recommendation for exporting large mailboxes to PST? I’m trying to export a 90 GB mailbox. Trying to use the search feature does not really help unless I’m using it wrong.  Thanks for any feedback.   

I am trying to install on-prem backup gateway and connecting to Metallic but getting error. I have opened outbound communication ports from backend gateway to Metallic on these ports 443, 8400 and 8403.at the firewall, I can see traffic is using ports 443, 8400 and 8403. From this gateway I am able to access the URL https://metrics.metallic.io., but during the installation, it is not connecting to the Metallic. What ports need to allow apart from above to make the communication between on-prem gateway and Metallic.

Commvault Cloud supports the protection of Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS instances in single and multi-AZ configurations using native RDS automated backups, allowing for point-in-time recovery (PITR).  To enable the PITR for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, additional permissions for RDS APIs are required to be added to a policy in the user account. These permissions allow for enabling the RDS automated snapshots with appropriate retention, thereby protecting the database transactional log files.  What steps should be taken to enable the PITR for the Amazon RDS database? The following steps should be followed in the AWS Console:Sign into the AWS Management Console and Open the IAM (Identity and Access Management) console of the appropriate AWS user account at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/. In the navigation pane, choose Policies. Search for the policy named either MetallicRole-RDSPolicy or MetallicTenantRole-RDSPolicy.  Choose the Permissions tab and click on Edit to add the set of p

We started using Metallic O365 backups back when it was Infinite Retention.  We have reached 70% of our Quota in just a little over two years and would like to investigate why.  We manage Storage in our On-Prem Commvault by setting the retentions below.  I do not find these granular settings in the Cloud Portal.Can I set these specific retentions within the Metallic Office 365 Backup Environment? I want to start with our standard retention limit,  Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly.Daily - 7 CopiesWeely - 5 Copies (Each Saturday)Monthly - 12 Copies (Last backup of each day of Month)Yearly 5 Copies - (Last backup of each year)

Is there support for migrating backups from Commvault to Metallic BAAS?We started using Commvault 3 years ago.  Now Metallic BAAS looks like a better fit for us. Our preference (if we switch) would be to not keep the Commvault for just those 3 years of backups.We would like, if possible, to import those backups into Metallic BAAS. I know if we changed to a different brand, this would not be an option, but since both are Commvault based, I figure I would ask.

Hello,We are running small env using Metallic SaaS,I’ve went through the API options ( api.commvault.com), looking for a way to get the ‘Activity Control’ status of an Azure Oject storage instance ( Blob / Azure file). I’ve Found almost all the instance properties beside the one I need.Is there a way to fetch the activity control status ( backup / restore ) ?   Thanks

Hi folks,Getting this errorHere’s the background, simplifiedOut of space in Metallic, storage policy is set to 365days/1 cycle. We moved to Metallic sometime last spring I think? Either way, chewed up 50TB in about 6 months.I think I have it down now where I have two storage policies, backing up the same stuff on the same retention period. However, if I try and reduce the retention rate of one of the policies (from 365/1 to say, 180 days / 1 cycle), I the error above.How do i get past that? I’ve submitted this to support and they have said nothing about any form to be filled out.

We are planning to change retention to one of the active plan. Currently "Backed up version retention" is set to infinite. We would like to change it to 365 days. Will it have any impact on running backup jobs ?

What happens when customers need to purchase a mix of different offerings of VM backups based on various workloads?Where Can i see the calculator (for ALL workloads - not only O365)?

i am new in Threatwise .. and i want to configure it..i can’t know how i can configure the ip address for eth0 .. in the vm console i can configure just  Appliance identity (Group ID and Appliance ID), connection to TSOC (Management Server Address, and proxy connection as needed).but the ETH0 not show ..is any way to configure it to let the VM access the internet

This is regarding Exchange Online backup. We are trying to restore mails form mailbox but it seems not able to mount the backup file. We do not have any error regarding backups (archive).We are not sure to understand “Check if playback succeded.” does it mean mouting the backup file and read it (scan)? we are supposed to have a job for restore but it seems, we are not even starting to mount the backup fileWe have job history regarding backups (it did backup) but backup size is 0.Something happen during the selection? Where it’s coming from? Someone can help?ThanksST

Over the last several days my jobs are getting killed on Metallic because of this error [82:158]. Since we’re on the cloud we don't have any control over Media Agent or storage.  Are other customers seeing this problem as well? I’m still trying to catch up on all my EXO backup, but these problem keep making it difficult to do. 

Hello, I want to use PowerBI to retrieve data from Commvault Cloud SaaS plateform but even after reading the documentation from API portal and tried to connect to the URL with a specific user I didn’t make it work.Does anyone already use a custom query into PowerBI to get access to Commvault platform through API ?I don’t need help about transforming the data but just to understand how to connect to the API it seems that there is no token, I need to use a username and password to my metallic.io URL but it’s unfortunately not clear. Thanks for your help. Benjamin

I have created a rsyslog server and configured metallic to send audit trails and alerts using syslog server by following this guide - https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/essential/114237_configuring_syslog_server.html?_gl=1*pf4vx8*_gcl_au*MTAwMzEzNTY2LjE2ODkxNjQyNDI. I am not able to see any audit logs on my rsyslog server. I have configure rsyslog server to listen on both tcp and udp. 

A Teams backup fails with the following error message:"Failed to populate hosted content for conversation item"Any idea what that means or how to fix it?

Hello Metallic Community,I am seeking guidance on two specific queries related to our Azure VMs, particularly SQL Servers, which are being backed up using Metallic.Backup Consistency for Azure VMs:Can someone clarify whether backups taken through Metallic for Azure VMs are application-consistent (e.g., using VSS for Windows) or crash-consistent?If there are any settings or configurations that need to be enabled to ensure application-consistent backups, kindly share the details.Best Practices for SQL Server Upgrades:We are planning an upgrade for our SQL VMs hosted on Azure. What are the recommended steps to ensure data protection and smooth rollback in case of any issues?Should we rely on existing Metallic backups, capture a manual snapshot, or consider creating a clone of the SQL VMs as a precautionary measure?I would greatly appreciate any insights or experiences from the community regarding these points. Your recommendations will help us implement the best possible backup and recove

Hello,With the recent enablement of 2FA for all Commvault Cloud environments, I have a question about break glass accounts.  Our company uses Okta and that is set up, so all our domain accounts are not affected by the 2FA enablement.  However, since our break glass account is not on the domain, it is tied to 2FA.  I have it set up to give me a PIN using Microsoft Authenticator.My question is, if I am out of the office or there is a DR situation, how are my teammates able to use the break glass account if needed?  It doesn’t look like the account can have multiple authenticator accounts attached to it.Thank you!