Self-Hosted Q&A

Hi,I have a question about Additional Setting: „bSkipFreeExtentCheckOnDDBPath”. What is the parameter on the MediaAgent used for? Can safely removed? or should it stay? I can't find a description for this parameter in the documentation.  Regards,Michal

Is there a way to launch a task from the media agent to the remote host that I want to take as a vmware backup.I have a Windows media agent like "access node" for Vmware backupsI did a task with putty which does a stop/start of a service on a remote linux host with authentication by ssh key. it works fine from a session on the windows media agent host.I put the path of this task in the pre snap and post snap of the Vmware sub client with the same user/password that I used for the test.When backing up the subclient, nothing happens and I don't see any presnap/postsnap call or task name specified in the backup job logs.1-) is this supposed to work?2-) if so how can I follow the operation?

I am currently gathering information for a backup solution for a significant cloud workload involving 400 virtual machines in an Azure VMware Solution (AVS) environment using Commvault. The workload is expected to grow up to a thousand instances over time. The VM instanes are spread across two clusters in two AZ’s probably set up in Stretch Cluster mode.While I understand that the specific storage tiers and scale may vary based on workload characteristics, change rates, and disk space usage, I am seeking a reference or general guidance that can assist in designing the environment effectively.Here are the specific aspects I'm interested in: Storage Libraries: What are the best practices for storage libraries when using Commvault with AVS for a cloud workload of this scale? Are there any general recommendations regarding the use of performance tiers for primary copies and lower-cost storage tiers for secondary/tertiary copies in AVS? Backup Prox

Hi folks,With Microsoft's recent announcement of the

Hi All, we are using the report Office365 Backup Health for tracking our O365 Backups.  Actually we get daily 4 Mails for ech type ( Exchange, Onedrive, Sharepoint, Teams ) this is stupid :) The report is good an short. I´m looking for an option to bring alle types into 1 pdf.  I trried to edit the report to click and drop everything into the main page but doesnt work.  Do you have an idear ? 

Hi Team, Quick question hopefully. So if I have a partitioned GDSP. Two MA’s, one partition each.Reading from storage which is mapped locally (preferred) to one Media Agent, and then accessed by the alternate MA by Mount Oath sharing (set to read-only if it is not local). The target storage is up in the cloud. Two two ma’s have read-write access. I have my SP’s running of it, with the Data Paths set as Round-robin. For reasons unknown, when my Aux Copy runs, it is only using one of the Media Agents as a Destination Media Agent. Subsequently, one of the ma’s runs pretty hot, the other one does not. But so far, I can’t see any reason why this would be the case.To make it even more confusing, some of the Cloud mount paths have the preferred setting applied to them, but the Aux is not using it (not actually sure if its’ supposed to?). So at the moment, I literally have 50 stre

Hi Guys,I am facing an issue where the Webconsole report job is getting completed but it is not able to send the email. Below is the error.mailRpt::sendMailLegacyApproach() - Error [*@*.com] encountered while sending email for report [D:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentStore\Reports\AuxCopy - Fallen Behind Storage Policies.csv] for job id ****CNsmtp::hasHost()() - Returned false from setHost()CNsmtp::SendSMTPMail() - Unable to load SMTP configuration details, email sending failed.mailRpt::sendMailLegacyApproach() - error to send failure email AuxCopy - Fallen Behind Storage Policies - AuxCopy - Fallen Behind.REPORT COMPLETED, Job ID = **** Regards,pank1988

Hello,We currently use Azure Backup Center to backup our Azure VMs, but we want to cut costs, thus we intend to backup those Azure Servers to Commvault.Is it possible to perform a VM Snapshot backup of those Azure servers to Commvault? thus I don't believe installing a file system agent will not work.

Hi Community,I have a question about the CommServ SQL server DB connections . When the SQL server authentication mode is modified from mixed-mode to Windows authentication mode, i can read the following in the below article :“Note: When you upgrade the Commvault software to a new version or a new service pack, you must change all Commvault services to use a domain system administrative account.”Windows Authentication for Commvault SQL Server Connectionsit means that if SQL are configured in Windows authentication mode, after an upgrade Commvault will automatically reset the SQL server authentication to mixed-mode ?regards,Christophe  

Hello Commvault Community, Is such a configuration possible that sharepoint agentbacks up documents locally, and its databases via sharepoint aliases are on another server?Can such a configuration be made and will it work properly, or does it all have to be protected locally, on the Sharepoint server where the commvault agent is installed.Thanks,Kamil

Hi,Can we install a commserve with an externel sql server.Best regards

Good day  I have a question around backup options on HP NonStop running Base24.I don’t see much information on backup options available in general, except what looks like a native backup copy command.Has anyone had experience in protecting this architecture and what options are available if you have?Thanks,Mauro

Hello everyone,I’m looking to discover O365 APPs (configured from Command Center) into the Console. Configuration works using 3 zones (Trusted, DMZ and Untrusted). It’s working ok but APPs does not appear into the console.Do you know how it is supposed to be discovered?Thanks 👍

Hi Team, I have 2 physical media agents.I have mount paths that come with SAN from block storage.The question is: I want to create 1 Disk Library and I want to use my 2 Media Agents. Is it possible?

Hello Team,I've searched BOL for information on non exclusive mode support (26.3.3.1) for PostgreSQL version 14 and unfortunately I don't find anything.Do you know if CV already supports backup in non exclusive mode (26.3.3.1) or still only in exclusive mode (26.3.3.2)I will be grateful for your response.Regards,Piotr Grzegorek 

Hello, What are the hardware/software specifications for setting up access/proxy nodes for OpenVMS backup? Documentation just states it should have filesystem agent installed but no further details are published.

You can use an SQL QScript to convert a transactional deduplication database (DDB) to a non-transactional DDB. But for which purpose? When do We need that? URL: Converting a Transactional Deduplication Database to a Non-Transactional Deduplication Database Procedure  

Hello, im looking to deploy gateway proxies in order to isolate customer tenants from the mediaagent network. my question is, do the clients need to initiate connections from their end trough the proxy in any way oris a backup job always iniated from commserv  / mediaagent server?Reasoning behind that, is that i could deploy the proxy with NAT without allowing any inbound traffic from the tenants network. i guess for registering client, the client need to iniate the connection, but afterwards? 

Hi, I am doing some testing related to Disaster Recovery. i am new in Commvault I want to understand About periodic Classic replication , Periodic and Continuous replication. I didn't Understand how it work. Anyone can help me to understand. This is Backup based replication or VMware to VMware based replicationI have some questions -1. Periodic Classic - Is this Backup level replication? for this we need backup? 2. Periodic - Is it same as periodic classic? or it is Snapshot based Replication?3. Continuous - For Continuous Replication Required Media agent. If we are using HSX then we need HSX both site source and DR site?                           

Hello, What is the correct procedure to add a new tape drive to an existing shared tape library? If I go to the expert storage wizard and hit either detect or exhaustive detection, the new drive is configured as a new library. Never under the existing library.Note that this is SAN library, partitioned, and in the same partition we added the new drive. Regards,Pedro

As a kind of Ransomware protection test we wanted to see how Commvault backup behaves when someone deletes the bucket content through a backdoor using a S3 browser for example. As the content of the locked bucket is physically still there (just not visible through a delete marker), CV should be able to restore them somehow. CV is also set up as WORM with the right WORM workflow of course.But after deleting the bucket content incl. the commvault backup tree, the CV cloud library goes offline as loosing the mount-path. Question: what would be the right procedure to re-enable commvault to restore the content?

Can some help me above shown title error Source: , Process: JobManager  Failed to mount the disk media in library [_LINUX_Testing] with mount path [/data] on MediaAgent []. Failed to check status of parent directory, media agent cannot access the storage. Make sure that the directory is accessible. Source:  Process: MediaManager

How to set up volume replication in Comcell console ? I can do it through command center, but even then I don't see this replication in Comcell. Conversely, the replication set in Comcell is not visible in Command center !?? Why !?  Is this a bug ?  

While running an Aux copy job receiving below error even after updating the credentials in the “Credential Vault” in control panel. Do we have to update it in any other location  Error Code: [13:138]Description: Error occurred while processing chunk [13495797] in media [V_740039], at the time of error in library [] and mount path [[] ], for storage policy [] copy [] MediaAgent []: Backup Job []. Cannot impersonate user. User credentials provided for disk mount path access may be incorrect.

The Windows client installation creates OS firewalls rules for the client to run and allow communication on ports used by the Commvault services. Does the Linux client installation make any FW changes to Firewalld or to SE Linux to allow the services to run and communicate externally? Are these required manually after installation?