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The file archive option on my laptop is deactivated, but it is not possible to eliminate the option on other computers. Kindly suggest

On the same system, is it possible to deploy both a virtual agent and a file system agent?We want to backup only the VM level status of the server, but their file system will be backed up separately due to the fact that the server system files are too large (12TB in size) and it takes too long to restore if the server is backed up with only the virtual server agent. 

Hi there,We have a virtual machine with SQL Server being backed up with backup type ‘File System and Application Consistent (Needs VMWare Tools installed)’. This backup is succeeding. If we change to using Application Aware processing, will a new full backup be required - and will this backup be deduplicated as normal? Or will this require a net new backup that is not deduplicated against the existing historical?Thanks for your help.  

This is more of a “hmmm”…Background:Currently we have a few “VMware backups” that are set up via a windows clients (installed on a VMs) that have the "Virtual Server" package installed.  There seems to be another way which is to literally just install a “VMware vCenter" client (I just installed one today). Both seem “similar” and I’m not sure why we would have set it up the other way in “the past”.Questions:Is the “windows client (installed on a VM) that has the "Virtual Server" package installed.” just an older way to handle this (which is why we likely have this configuration)?Which is the preferred way to handle VMWare backups?  If both are “valid” are there benefits or reasons to choose one over the other? Since they both work I would assume both are “supported” but I’m looking to do it “the newer/better/cleaner/likely to be the path moving forward” way vs “it just works choose either and live w

Hello Community  I am currently troubleshooting an issue with high IO during SQL backups. Upon investigation, I found the IO wait type to be BACKUPIO. Further analysis of the Commvault performance log revealed that writing to the media is slow, which is consistent with the issue we found using a PowerShell script to determine I/O wait type (BACKUPIO).Currently, our storages live in Azure, with three copies (primary, 2nd, and 3rd). The primary and 2nd copies have deduplication enabled, with a block level ddb factor of 512 of each. To achieve a better balance between write performance and recoverability, Perf log recommends adjusting the block size from the data path properties to 128KB or 256KB.My question is whether I need to change the block level ddb factor to 128KB on both the source and destination cloud lib, and if so, what is the proper procedure to adjust the value? Do I need to put the MA in maintenance mode and ensure that no

Hello,I would like to backup our GitHub Account where we have a huge amount of repositories.And few are added very frequently.But I’m not able to configure once as content “all repositories” in order to have also the new ones added without going back to the configuration.Someone was able to do it ?Today I’m forced to add the new ones regularly manually (add content).Thank you,Regards,Michael.   

Hi Team, I’m frequently seeing below error for many DDB Backups and getting failed.Error Code: [6:43]Backup failed: unable to open or read a file. Configured to fail on any error. Please check the following: 1. The account that the File System agent uses has sufficient privileges to back up files. 2. The data being backed up can be accessed and is not on a path that is unmounted or is inaccessible. 3. A third-party product is not locking the files. 4. There is no corruption of the data on the disk. 5. If some failures are expected, please change the current setting so that the backups can complete. Please let me know how to resolve this error. Regards,Harshavardhan.

I am a bit unclear with Index version 2 since version 11.  If we have a new Mediaagent with the latest Commvault agent installed; as I understand it will utilize Index version 2; what happens with the clients which do not support this version.  Also, we have a selective policy wherein the server last monthly full is taped out; what about the Index version 2 database backups; As I understand only action logs are backed up as a part of the backup process; what happens to the Index database; so if we were to restore an historical six month old backup with Index version 1; everything will be restored from the backups as it is backed up as a part of the backup job; however what happens if it is Index version 2I do notice that Index database is backed up as a part of “Big-Apps” against the storage policy; however; I cant see the historical jobs going to tape  

Hi All, we are planung to backup Azure File Share. i dont find any infos regarding the need firewall ports for the proxy.  Can you help here ?  https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/146731_azure_file_share_overview.html Maybe it is only 443 to the share url ?

We have a robust rman setup currently and we’d like to continue using that to backup to Commvault.  We have this working, however we have one huge issue.  Apparently we can only submit a single job at a time and the others simply wait.  We have large machines with over 75 databases on them and a single stream isn’t feasible.Is there a way we can backup multiple databases at once using rman from the unix box?Thanks!

Just need to confirm something about the Commvault GxClusPlugin and any services like that while configuring any fail over sql cluster .I believe that these services should be down not active on the passive node.Also need to know if there is any failure in Commvault sw, the cluster movement from primary  to secondary will fail ??

Hello,  In our environment we provide storage target for RMAN backups but leave actual backup administration in the hands of Oracle admins. Clients are setup in CommVault with a storage policy with a retention of 30 days/1cycle and no schedule. Scheduling is handled by the DBA’s.On certain databases we notice that jobs age out earlier than 30 days and DBA’s get notified in RMAN that the backups fail on the “DELETE OBSOLETE” step. We’ve previously contacted support about this and have the following enabled in CommVault: Disable RMAN External Pruning set at commserve/media management level Disable RMAN crosscheckAgain, this seems to only effect particular databases, not every database on a host has this issue. I’m not sure what else we could possibly look into? 

In our environment we are using Disk library for all our backups and all the backups are running in a single session. To improve backup timings of one of the Oracle node, we are planning to increase the sessions in commvault. My question is, other than changing the settings in subclient level, do we have to increase the channels in RMAN script to make it work? Thanks.hutamit

Hello, In the meantime, I found the following timestamp and also warning about the snapshot creation for the mentioned VMs. However, there is no reason mentioned in the logs for why the snapshot creation is disabled.Error Code: [91:482]Description: Snapshot creation is disabled on (VM Name). Please help to find the solution for this error.

This option is available only for the storage policy configured with multiple partitioned DDB.When this option selected and if you have a partially available DDB that is one of the partition is offline The backup or Auxiliary copy jobs can continue with remaining available partition of the DDB. If option checked, the CommVault warn that this option may increase space consumption on disk. If I understand the concepts correctly each partition stores a unique collection of hashes and pointers. With this option checked, space consumption on disk can increase, because Commvault would need to deduplicate some of the blocks again.  If this is correct,is the data verification job the kind of task that could identify if there are duplicate data blocks stored on disk? If the answer is yes, then it would be strongly recommended to run a data verification job after this option is checked. Especially with the DDB dat

Is there a way to print the tapes that are in a VaultTracker Container? I do not see any way or workaround method to do this.

Whenever a new DDB is created, a fresh copy of signatures and first occurrence of each subsequent data block is written to storage. However these data blocks may already exist in storage with signature contained in the sealed DDBs residing in the MediaAgent or Data Center. The DDB Priming feature looks for signatures in the previously sealed DDBs and uses them to baseline the new DDB. In source-side deduplication, this saves the need for clients to transfer data blocks that are already available in the storage.This option is not supported on archive cloud storage. Two questions here:  However these data blocks may already exist in storage with signature contained in the sealed DDBs residing in the MediaAgent or Data Center. Data Center? What is a Data Center in CommVault?  The DDB Priming feature looks for signatures in the previously sealed DDBs and uses them to baseline the new DDB. How the Commvault accomp

Hi Team, We took a hot backup of our MySQL DBs with the Percona XtraBackup utility in the document below. We will perform restore tests, can we return any DB under MySQL Instance that we want to learn? Or is all Full Instance restore the only option? https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/93111_mysql_backup_using_percona_xtrabackup.html Best Regards.

Hi,i Can’t restore files from the guest virtual machine from the secondary copy even if i can do a live mount of this machine from this copy.Regards

Can commvault give an engineer to trobuleshooting?

Hi,Github protection licensing. Bases on what is calculated? Number of users in organisation or number of repositories?  

I just signed on to cloud.commvault.com and see this: Is the site not working right now? 

HelloOne of our customers used the java console to add a Plan and a custom schedule to a Commvault client. I can remove the customer schedule but I cannot add the default PLAN schedule to the client againHow can i Use the default PLAN schedule again? Thanks in advance! :-)

what's the jobid for incidence creation?how can i get the jobid?

we will deploy Microsoft SQL always on on Azure VM, any chance to use Intellisnap to protect SQL always on?