Self-Hosted Q&A

Hello Everyone,Currently our Synthetic Fulls that do our weekend backups are taking way to long and putting our system at risk.  They run well into Wednesday and they kick off on a Friday Night.  I have seen other posts about simultaneous Synthetics slowing down the system and we do have them running against one business server, however the way they were setup before my time each job is doing different sections of that drive.  I am trying to determine how to alleviate this issue.  Would SSD drives for our Media Agent help, we currently still have old mechanical drives installed.  Do we need to throw more processing power at the Server itself?  We are trying to roll into Metallic to replace tapes and at the speed the backups happen even if we can get our system to send to Metallic instead of tapes it will be so many days behind if we do have an issue we are pretty much dead in the water.  We are not a huge company, and I feel like a Synthetic is only supposed to write the new

Hi,I am looking for a way to return a list with the Barcode (V_XXXX) numbers that was used for a specific job including CHUNK names via API or qscript if possible?I have not been successful in my attempts.Hopefully there is something available.Regards,Ignes 

Hello, I would like to know what is the difference between configuring a backupset to collect the following content: //*/.Which of the 3 options should backup the entire server? What does each of these options collect?

Hi Folks, How can migrate from veeam to commvault? Any docs available? 

Hi everyone, Commvault is starting to offer solutions for customers to restore their operations under the metallic flag. One of them is the restore of your CommServe using a DR backup, if you enabled the cloud upload. This got me wondering as accessing data from our Commcells or other data behind sso.commvault.com does not require tfa/mfa or offers the possibility of enabling tfa/mfa. Especially in the use case when we talk about our DR sets containing encryption keys to our encrypted public cloud storage (S3, Azure, metallic storage, gcp storage, etc) I think we could be running quite a risk here. What is your take on asking for TFA/MFA on sso.commvault.com? Personally I think Commvault should enable it sooner rather than later, but curious to hear other perspectives.

Am trying to backup Ec2 backups from another accounts in same region, but we are not able to discover Ec2 from another accounts Have followed below link already but didn’t help. is there any thing specific permission need to provide from AWS ? https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/essential/108958_using_resources_from_admin_account.html?_gl=1*nena64*_gcl_au*MTQwMzk4OTYyNy4xNjgyNDI0MDEx

i have a DDB full recon job running its been somedays since our ddb is corrupted ,  i need to restart below services  commvault media and library managerand commvault media mount manager  can anyone confirm will it affect any current job , especially the ddb recon job  

Here is the error that I’m facing after upgrading the client from 11.24 to 11.28. Error :[Rollback segments update failed:[ SQL*Plus: Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on Thu Jun 1 16:38:42 2023 Version 19.12.0.0.0 Copyright (c) 1982, 2021, Oracle. All rights reserved. SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> Connected. SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> SQL> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 select distinct 'U,', c.name || ':' || s.tablespace_name from cdb_segments s, v$CONTAINERS c where s.owner in ('SYS', 'SYSTEM') and c.CON_ID = s.CON_ID * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01219: database or pluggable database not open: queries allowed on fixed tables or views only SQL> SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production Version 19.12.0.0.0 ].] I have already added the sORARUNBKPONDBROLE  option with value ‘1’. Please help me to fix this issue.

Hi Team,I have this Scan phase issue where the scan took longer for one particular subclient (NFS volume) after Synthetic full job. Is there any setting / need add any additional setting to make this scan phase finish faster?  From the logs and behavior, I can see the mounting not happen and the scan result from the logs is 0. after many hours, it will act to mount the snap and scan the folders. what may cause this issue?I only can suspect the subclient as the other subclient working as normal. The CIFS subclient for this same SVM have no issue.   

Hi all,We have a number of subclients which target our virtual server environment. These subclients select virtual machines to backup via tags.We have a couple of subclients which are currently not being used, but the option is available for them to be used. As a result, jobs against these subclients fail with a “[91:478] No virtual machines were discovered for this Subclient. Check the subclient content and configured filters.” error. This muddies our reporting even though it is intended and understood.Is anyone aware of a way to prevent these jobs from explicitly failing? Ideally, they would complete with simply zero VMs backed up. We’d like to leave backup activity enabled for these subclients and schedules targeting them in case VMs have the tags added to ensure that assigning the tag is the only action required to initiate backups.Many thanks for your time any any suggestions. 

Hello! I am running VMware VM backups via SAN transport mode. Several of the VMs have virtual RDMs. I would like to exclude them from the VSA backup and run them via FS iDA inside the VM.  How to achieve that? Regards,Pedro

Fun times ahead- I am over having multiple commcells per enviroment. It served its purpose but now with consolidations complete- I am ready to bring everything into a single commcell. So - I have read and used migrating media agent to new hardware documentation many times. Same with commcells-- but now… I am wanting to move the media agent- with all the jobs and clients-- to a new commcell. Would a seperation be the best approach? Is this possible? I am sure the instance has something to do with it -but looking for good examples. Anyone else done this? Thoughts on what you would do different? Lets talk! 

Hi Team, I have facing some issue in our infra, While try to take the backup of one Mysql Databse serverwe are getting below errorCurrent Commvault version which we are using:11.28.32Error Description:Backup of [DBname] MySQL database failed. The error message [mysqldump: Couldn’t execute ‘SHOW FIELDS FROM ‘visitor_cars_child_view2:View ‘DB name.visitor_cars_child_view2’references invalid table(s) or column(s) or function (s) or definer/invoker of view lack rights to use them(1356)] is received during backup. Could you please help on this above case  

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