Self-Hosted Q&A

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?

Hello Community, Commvault offers several ways to secure the environment. Be it Ransomeware protection, account lock after x attempts, unusual file activities. Is there an overview of what else is possible here? We need to raise our security standards and would have to evaluate all the possibilities that Commvault offers. Maybe someone of you has already discovered all the features or even uses them and can give useful tips here. Kind RegardsThomas

I have a request to run a report for all files backed up on a specific date within a specific folder.  I am either looking for a report that will show this to me or a way to have all backed up files copied to a spreadsheet.   I have tried running a file search report a Chargeback report and backup job summary report.  None of these attempts are giving me the listing that I am looking for.  Does anyone have any suggestions on what report to run or how to get the list of all of the files in a CSV?  

Hi, I would like to know how to apply the below to more than 500 systems in one go.change the “Default Sub Client Policy” - “Retention” - “For files deleted by user”  change from “Retain indefinitely” to “Use storage policy copy retention”. Cannot certainly do it manually so looking for an option to save my day and time.. Regards,Terence

We are on 11.28.44 and I noticed when we disable backup activity at the client level of a virtual machine client (which has no agents installed), there is no visual indication that activity is disabled.Is this expected?Most other clients will show red arrows to indicate that activity is disabled - but VMs don’t seem to show this.I see that I can create a smart client computer group which could group and show all of the backup activity disabled clients, but it would be nice to visually get the red arrow indication when activity is disabled without having to go to properties of the client to check.

Hi... I'll try to be short... Here's the setup:- Two AIX clients in a DMZ zone.- CS connects to the clients front end NIC.- In between clients and MAs, a Backup Network is defined along with a OneWay FW. (set on the client group level) - Backups of each of the clients work as expected. CS can happily communicate with the clients on their front- end NIC and backup streams are running over the backup network as expected.- Clients are added to a UNIX pseudo cluster client. - The UNIX pseudo cluster is a VIP address (along with a FQDN name) which is owned by the active node. Issue:Backups configured for the UNIX pseudo cluster client fail as the DIP configuration for the active node doesn't seem to be taken into consideration.. Is there any way around this behavior? We need the backup data streams to originate from the DIP address on what ever node is active. CVLT v11.20.60 Any ideas? 

Hi,Is it possible to generate a report about the Instance properties of the PostgreSQL clients? I have 350 Postgres client with some being part of a Master/Standby configuration, some single and some part of a Multinode-node (3 or more) configuration.I would like to get this configuration somehow for reference  Thanks.Ignes 

Can you restore directly from Metallic Cloud cool storage tier?

Hi team ,We are trying to backup mysql on Kubernetes service - We are unable to backup the sql deployment. As it failing to create a Worker Pod .PFA a screenshot.Please reply asap. 

How do i assign a custom signed cert to this port being used by commvault and sql?  Nessus vuln scanner is scanning port 51984 and showing a unsecure self signed certificate.

In the next few days I will have to migrate a server that has the role of CS and MA, can you help me in knowing what will be the best way to do it.

Hi All,Our client is planing Commvault server refresh activity were they are doing the below steps:-Built new Commserve and Media Agents (All physical server)Keep the current Commvault environment and move all the Clients to the New Commvault environmnet.Below are my queriesWhen we are building new Commserver does we need to install Microsoft SQL manullay and do we require Microsoft SQL liscense for the same?And if we are using Commvault Media kit will Microsoft SQL get insalled automatically and will that also require Microsoft SQL liscense?How can we restore old data after moving the all clients from Old Commvault environment to new Commvault environment?Please provide you inputs.

The security team at a customer of mine recently received alerts on 2 Domain Controllers and they requested clarification.It appears that this executable:C:\Program Files\Commvault\ContentStore\CVMedia\11.0.0\Windows\ThirdParty\CVInstallThirdParty\GenProcessModuleInfo.exeHas accessed this service in Windows:C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exeBoth machines run daily AD and FS system state backups for a long time now.The current version is 11.30.32Any ideas please?

Hi,I am trying to delete a deconfigured client. I get the error “ Detected Media Agent platform. Delete Media Agent before cleaning up the client.”This client is not listed under Storage Resources → MediaAgents.No backup jobs exist for this client. Is there a way to forcefully remove the client? Cheers. 

Hi, we have accidentally removed all attributes for backing up VMs in VCenter and we are in the process of re-adding them. Do we have the ability to create a report that can clearly explain to us which VM had which attribute and which one did not in Vcenter ? anyone know how to restore the VM’s attributes to that it was as before in VCenter ? Thanks 

Hi All,Our client is still using iData agent to Backup VM’s. To convinse then for moving from iData agent Backups to VSA backup pleaseprovide pros and cons of VSA Bakcups.

We have VM Periodic (classic) replication setup for some VM’s in an environment, the menu that pops out to initiate the failover scenarios does not display properly if you have limited VM’s in the replication group. The menu slides out but is then hidden behind the Replication Monitor pane.Example below of a replication group with a single VM in it:If a replication group has multiple VM’s in there (in this case 4) the menu displays correctly:Seeing this issue in Chromium based browsers.  Apart from resizing the window to something very narrow/tall (like example below):