Self-Hosted Q&A

Need assistance on how do we integrate POWERBI with Commvault for custom reporting.

HI, Is there any straightforward Link(s) that can tell me the pre-checks for MA’s and clients  (OS and SQL minimum patches as pre-requisites) for updating to 11.28.44 ? Windows 2008 R2Windows 2016 R2Windows 2019 R2Centos Linux 7Thanks,RicM

Hello,What is the best way o Remove completely client agent from windows server(registry,folders)?

It is possible to restore a Mysql database on the same server with a different name.

Hi,is it possible to get a notification if an AUX copy job fails? We had a problem with the tape library and we saw the problem a few days later.  RegardsDennis

Hello Good morning,please help, I have a backup of a Hyper-V with Job Id 30030 which backs up about 100 Virtual machines, according to the images attached, I just need to copy the VM Job 30084 (only one machine of the 100), from disk or tape to another tape completely with a different retention this from the console and not from the command center, because according to customer requirements are not used plans. this is the backup job of the hyper-v with the 100 machines 👇 and this is the VM job 30084 from the copy of the virtual machine that I need to send to a completely different tape  👇 

Hi Team, Greetings! I hope all are well. How often do we have to complete the multi-factor authentication MFA process? is it every time, we close and open the commcell console ? we need to authenticate MFA ? and also is there any setting we need to configure for it ? 

is there a way to setup log rotate / truncate for the cvd or the mysqlbackupparent.log within commvault ? or is it just done from a native cron?

Hello,To provide Syslog for Syslog servers, I open Syslog in the command center.Is it possible to verify Syslog traffic?  

Good day All.I am busy with an implementation to configure WORM from Commvault and writing to HYDRAstor. The solution makes use of both Intellisnap and streaming backups.The challenge is that the requirement has requirements for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly retention.What is the best method to configure this?I have seen that the Snap Primary copy and Primary copy needs to have the same retention. How do you cater for the extended retention requirement? Is it possible to enable Extended Retention on the Primary copy or is the only way to create secondary copies for each retention requirement and enable WORM on those copies/storage pools?The challenge with HYDRAstor is to reduce reads as much as possible but when Aux copies run between the copies it initiates reads in order to write to the next copy for the new retention.I understand that the jobs/storage pools can be deleted If any of the copies were configured incorrectly but Support would be

I built a workflo that I would like to deploy on another commcell and its coming down as a .TML instead of a .XML.I thought maybe i did something wrong- but all the workflows i have built even the built-in ones are exporting like that. Anyone else having this issue?

The scheduled Data Aging report is now sending a zip file instead of a HTML.  This was not set by the administrator.  Where would I go to edit the report to send HTML instead of a zip file. 

Hi Everyone, I need a help on Database Table name where we can find the workflow job history and details. Thanks & Regards,Harshavardhan.

Hi Team, i am having issues with Data Aging. Basically the setup is following 30 Days 1 Cycle on on SP7 Days 1 Cycle on another SP Daily Incremental and Weekly Full / Synthetic Full Basically moastly about 2000 VMs which gets destroyed from time to time. As i do not have an impact when the VM is destroyed i can not fullifill the Cycle and some data will never age.  Is there a automatism if a VM is not found anymore and Data “should” age out that the client and all the corresponding Backups are freed up?  thanks 

Are there are any special considerations when doing a CS migration specifically to move older clients to another CS?

I am trying to follow the ansible documentation for ansible request. I am trying to figure out a way to stop the services, it seems that there is only a way to restart them. I cannot figure out where the other actions are listed within the documentation. Can somebody point me in the right direction?  I know that ansible request contacts the API, but I cannot find a references for this command within the API documentation either. I also cannot find documentation for the acceptable parameters within the “payload” parameter. https://github.com/Commvault/ansiblev2#commvault.ansible.request

Is there a way to stop backup activity via an api call or some sort of workflow or python code? I am trying to figure out a way to do this in such a way that I can pass in certain parameters, such as specifying a client, media agent, etc.  Is this something that could possibly be done through a powershell script or an ansible script? or a python script? Is there an easier way to go about this? My goal is to find a way to automate the process of stopping all backup activity for multiple clients, media agents, etc.

Hi all, is there a way to change the the Unit for the “Current Throughput” in the Job Controller from GB/hr to MB/s? kind regardsJoerg for ADN

Hi,I installed Sever SQL agent on one of my standalone SQL server (MS SQL) Commvault recognized the client, but when I tried to add the databases into content to do the backup, I couldn’t add them. I was able to discover all the databases. The service account has sysadmin role.   

Hello ,I have a Commserve in production (name CS1 / IP 1)I would to test restore a CS Dump to another machine (CS2 / IP2) in the same Network (not isolated ) in Staging mode.I dont stop Commvault services in CS1 (its my production)There will be a risk of conflicts if Commvault services ?? if services are UP CS1 and CS2 ?Thanks. 

Hello Team,  im configuring 2500 endpoint device for protection and content indexing. i have created the package.created laptop plancreated content index policy installed the package on 1 laptop how i can enable content indexing on the device or how i can include it to the CI plan because there’s no button in the association tab? how i can assign universal access to each device owner so he can only see his device from the webconsole? i have went to manage/system/ access control  and activate automatic owner assignment with permission as shown below  appreciate the fast response.

Hi I have a customer who has multiple sites and now we are looking to replicate those site to the cloud and need to evaluate the bandwidths for each site !Is there a way to generate a report for each site telling us what is the equivalent of a full backup for those sites? I have the Total Application Size and Total Data Size on Disks but I cannot really rely on this since some have 15 days retention and others have 60 days retention ! Is there a report or a way to find this kind of information ? 

Greetings,I have a single s3 bucket that has held all of our Aux copy backups for many years, and it looks like it goes back to 2017. This bucket gigantic sitting at about 1.5PB and there are hundreds or millions of files in it. I inherited this setup when I came on board a bit back so I don’t know much about the history of it. I do know that a couple years back Commvault was rebuilt/recreated and everything was setup new. Our current storage policies have a year retention going out to this s3 bucket, and I see it in Commvault for the jobs that they do get aged off after a year. This does go through a DDB, and I ended up sealing it a few weeks ago, and at the same time cleaned up (aged/space reclamation) as much as I could in order to shrink down our bucket. It dropped the bucket size very slightly when I did this. I was hoping for a lot more. That started to make me think that there is a discrepancy from what the bucket has to was Commvault believes it has. I t

Just a curiosity...Basically:Does Commvault increase/decrease the throughput (of a job, or per stream) of an Aux copy based on internal things like “how much data has to be copied” and/or “when the next job to run is”?  or anything similar? Essentially: If no external bottlenecks existed for an Aux copy, would CommVault go as fast as it can to Aux copy, or would it internally throttle based on “need to not go as fast as possible”?  if so, is there a way to see these metrics/know when its ocurring?Put another way: I’m wondering if Commvault, having “a few TB to copy” for a job, decides ‘yes, i can easily copy this in x hours before the next job, so therefore, no need to run at max performance for this job”, and then on another day, say there’s 100 TB to copy, so it determines” I need to ramp up the throughput for this job if I’m going to be able to finish this in time”?Another way to put this is: I’m not looking for a “yes/no” if “job time or data amount to copy”

Hi team i have multiple customers hosted on the same commserv how can i create an individule web console for each one