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I have several of the CommVault reports (notably the “APSS - Missed SLA Report”) keep referring to clients and virtual servers (backed up with the Virtual Server Agent) that are either deconfigured (if a client) or removed from the VM group (if a VM).Is there something I need to be doing when removing a VM from virtual server backups, or deconfiguring a client so these do not show up on reports?  I’m not sure why 100% of all deconfigured/removed VM’s are not showing up on these reports, only “some of them” Note: some of these were “last backed up” in 2015, 2019, 2020, etc. they all indicate “No Schedule” or “No Job within SLA Period” as the “reason” which is 100% true as they have been removed/deconfigured a long time ago. 

Hello Community,I am looking for some way of the manage credentials by API, to create new one cloud library in Azure and automated process creation new cloud library in Commvault. I checked the link with API but inside is lack of details about the topic. Cloud someone show me the details for that API request? Reagrds,Michal

I’ve been unable to access cloud.commvault.com & documentation.commvault.com all morning (Australian time).Partners.commvault.com and community.commvault.com are still fine (or I wouldn’t be able to post this question).  I’ve had a couple of colleagues check from different locations and they are seeing the same. Any known issues?

Hi, There is an option to assign users or users group to a plan, but recently customer made a case that they are more device-centric then user-centric when it comes to assigning new devices to employees. They asked if it’s possible to assign devices to plans based on hostnames rather then users/owners. I would really want to help here, but I’m not aware of such option. Please let me know if it’s possible or not.

Hello, I was wondering what would be the best option or settings to backup windows file servers. I see that block-level is an option, with a few restrictions.I also see that, creating multiple subclients for the folders under the file server drive could speed up the process. Is that is? Any other thoughts?Thanks

can we please have the same help button that is in Java GUI to be presented to the command center users so when using command center to configure or make changes, may be using the 3 dots to add the help section to open BOL \ CV DOC of the configuration of this page? This will make everyone’s life so much easier  

Hello, Team I have a client who is looking to backup their databases from Azure VMs to a storage On-prem. What is the best approach to take to achieve this in terms of resources and config?

Hi, i have a subclient of a oracle instance that on preBackup it’s perfoms an export and on post delete export on Filesystem…sometimes the prebackup doesn’t work at first time and retry more time, i not find where i set retryI wolud like only one retry, can you help me?thanks 

Hey guys!!I'm having the following problem, I have 24 Linux VMs in a given VM Group, due to a wrong configuration in the filters, in the preview a total of 387 Windows Vms were listed that were not backed up in the Linux VM Group. When verifying in the Vm Group Windows, the backup of these machines was performed.In view of this, I ask, is there a way to clear this count by removing the machines that are not part of the VM Group, leaving only the VMs in the right group?Hugs!  

Hello All, I would like to create new mountpath for cloud library. I performed the same request by powershell which I can get from part of View: Unfortunately Put shot by powershell send me 500 error without more details. Does someone have that type of issue and can help me with that case ?Regards, Michal

What are the implications of running LiveSync across 2 sites each with a CommServe and automatic failover set to occur? In the case of a Primary CommServe failure I see no issue and expect the monitoring nodes (both sites) to trigger transfer of the primary function to the CommServe at the other site.However… What if site A becomes isolated from site B with a network failure between both sites? I expect the Primary Commserve continue to run its site but will the CommServe in site B become active at site B as well with the monitoring nodes there losing connection with the CommsServe at site A? Will this result in a “Split Brain” condition across both sites??? If so, what happens on network reconnection??? 

Hello!VM group has data readers set to 6. But during a backup it reached a lot more. Does any one ever seen this?  Regards,Pedro

Hello,I have a storage policy which has different types of sub-clients associated with it as shown below. Majority of vCenter SubClients have single datastore as its content and some have VMs as its content. All the datastore are on NetApp storage volumes and we have IntelliSnap integration.Storage Policy has following copies:Backup Copy is disabled so no jobs are going to Primary (Classic) copy and neither any jobs are queued for backup.Some of the associated subclients are perfect for aux copy to B4 in terms of availablility of snapshots, jobs, snapmirror relationships but few of the subclients have issues like primary snapshots beyond retention, some snapshots deleted from stor

Good day everyone,I do have a pending ticket with this issue but wanted to see if anyone faced this here. I have several Linux RHEL (5&6) boxes that we are migrating from another backup tool to Commvault. We have some strange issue where the OS type does not show up properly in the commcell and I can only back them up with another Linux media agent.If we use a Windows media agent, we get a lot of errors about decrypting and SDT errors in the logs.

Dear community, Can anyone help me why this folder “Export” (inside Local JobResults in MA) is fills up ?Probably is about SharePoint online, but why consumes so many space?SharePoint online \configuration is 4-5 months ago with few sites.And most important question, is it safe to delete it?Thank you in advance!

WHo change Web GUI to english i used the version commvault Hitachi 11.30.43 

I’m wanting to manually “clone” subclients from 1 backupset to another (on a different client). I’m wondering if this will affect the data on storage.  I’m planning on making all the new subclient settings as identical as I can to the old ones (using same storage policies, backing up the same data, subclient name is the same, etc).Basically: I don’t want to blow up all my remaining DDB or storage space by having commvault think “this is new data” at the DDB or storage level, as its “the same data” just now being backed up from a different client.  Or, I guess, blowing something else up like index cache space. 

Hello, we tried today to upgrade our Commvault environment from version 11.24.43 to 11.28.6. After the pre-check the installation aborts with the message "Entry Point Not Found". I have uploaded screenshots. Does anyone know how we can solve this problem ?In the logs you can find the following.DatabaseUpgrade.log:1876  2fac  07/04 13:09:17 ### CvProcess::StartProcessUnicode() - Preparing to launch process: <C:\ProgramData\Commvault Systems\Galaxy\Temp\DBUpgradeFiles\Base\DatabaseUpgrade.exe>. Priority: <Normal>. Value: <32> creational flag <8>.1876  2fac  07/04 13:09:19 ### CVDBUPGRADEWRAPPER() - Return code of Binary for Product [CommServer] is [-1073741511]1876  2fac  07/04 13:09:19 ### CVDBUPGRADEWRAPPER() - Failed to DBBackup using CommServ DR. Will try to take DBBackup using SQL1876  2fac  07/04 13:09:19 ### CvProcess::StartProcessUnicode() - Preparing to launch process: <C:\ProgramData

When a customer selects “Download” when restoring guest files from a VMware backup, the data is restored to a folder on our CS.The download will then proceed within the customer’s browser.How long are the data available in “\Commvault\ContentStore\iDataAgent\JobResults\DM2CacheDir” ?

Legal wants me to move only part of our old Exchange Compliance Archiver client generated compliance archive over to the new Exchange Mailbox (ContentStore Mailbox) solution.Is it possible to repick the jobs I need, and send them through the new Exchange Mailbox client to add them to the content index?If not, is the best solution to just export the content the want to bring over and add it to the SMTP journaling ContentStore mailbox?Thanks,Collin 

Hi,We have a Client “SQLVM1” running SQL Agent 11.20 on Commserve1.We are setting up Commserve2 running v11.30. We will uninstall the SQL Agent 11.20 on SQLVM1 and then install the new SQL Agent version on “SQLVM1” from Commserve2.Question:How to restore SQL data backed-up on Commserve1 when SQLVM1 will be migrated to Commserve2?Commserve1 is also Media Agent and contains the disk library. Of course, Commserve1 is available until expiration of the retention.Thanks

Hi Team, Could you please help us with below queries for Data ingest in Commvault:Is custom meta data written to cloud storage, is there a process to do so? How to find out about below Data Stats Average data size Variance? File types Are objects ever updated? Are deltas used? Various levels of DPL and impact to storage used?

Hello everyone,I’ve created a new OneDrive backup using the Command Center and have been manually adding users for the past few weeks.  I’d like to configure it to back up all users automatically but the documentation doesn’t match the user interface.For example these directions don’t match what I see in portal.azure.com:https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/essential/150329_adding_onedrive_license_enabled_users_using_microsoft_dynamics_azure_ad_group.htmlAnd these directions don’t match the Command Center interface:https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/essentia

I have some CIFS Shares on a NAS that I want to backup and I currently do this by using a subclient on a Windows File iDA that simply connects to the UNC path.I’m replacing the box that the existing subclient sits on so I need to re-create it and I have two options.Same as before but use a new File iDA. Add a NAS/Network Share client and use the new Windows File iDA as a data access node.The end result is my UNC path is backed up so I’m not entirely clear what the difference is between the two methods and why I might choose one over the other?

After 12th of June 2021, you may encounter a situation on your Commserve whereby the SQL TempDB (tempdb.mdf) and Log (templog.ldf) are increasing in size unexpectedly.This may continue until the volume on the Commserve holding these files becomes full, which can lead to performance issues on the Commserve and observed in the Commcell console.Commvault released a reporting enhancement on the 11th June 2021 that has inadvertently caused tempdb/templog file growth.This enhancement has since been fixed however your environment may still be showing high space cosumption from the tempdb and templog files.If you are witnessing this behaviour and have low disk space on the drive hosting these SQL database files, please carry out the following on the Commserve server: