Self-Hosted Q&A

Hello team, I have two questions about license. A customer is going to introduce CV license 100TB and 100TB for two Commserves.But there is a good chance that a Commserve overuses the license more than 100TB and another Commserve only uses the license less than 50TB.For this situation, customer wants to be able to adjust the CV license in a flexible way between two Commserves.(In a nutshell, customer wants to divide the license quantity within 200TB by usage by themselves)So is there any flexible way to move TB license between two Commserves according to the license usage by themselves?Or should we do request the reissue to license team when it required? For VM10 pack license, "Protected Virtual Machines" and "Virtual Operating Instance" are all supported?Customer needs to back up the virtual machine using both agentless and agent manner. Thanks.

Hi, I need to make a monthly report of what was programmed against what was executed, does anyone have any idea how to obtain it? Regards

Hello All,  We have couple of challenges to be fixed in the environment,  Aux copies:Aux copies are running sometime slow and fast and we are never able to achieve the replication completion as primary copies To reduce the data we chose to change from synchronous copies to selective copies of all full backups But still we have fallen behind copiesEnvironment:5 GBPS express route from dc to azure - which is a optimal bandwidthAll backups are routed to azure blob storage through the media agents in the dc Question:These below additional setting , can be applied in common for all media agents ? All these additional settings look like they are useful in achieving the benefits expected but looking for some thoughts before apply or is good to apply them on all media agents?DataMoverLookAheadLinkReaderSlots SILookAheadSimulatedAsyncIOThreadCount SILookAheadAsyncIOBlockSizeKB DataMoverUseLookAheadLinkReaderMaxCacheDBSizeMBUseAuxcopyReadlessPlus  

Hi, Given that I have never updated the commcell, I should update the current release v11 SP16 and bring it to service pack 24.What are the steps to take?Is it an activity that is done hot?Could my clients have problems?Thanks for your help 

We are planning to deploy a Clustered Media agent so need more details on advantages upon configuring a non-clustered Media agent.

Hello,our System is Version 11.25.23 but after the installation we have the German WebGUI but we need the English WebGUI.Where can I change this ?I tried the galaxy.jnlp file but this was without any action. regards chris 

we will have about 400 users to be added w/ Microsoft 365 F1 licenses, would CV still assign/consume licenses if mailbox, sharepoint, onedrive and team are disabled?the main purpose of MS 365 licenses is for authentication which require by an application. thank you.

HiI can see qScripts for enabling a subclient for SLA ‘inclusion’But I cant see one for individual VM’s The scenario I have isOver 1700 VM’s (various VM’s, Various Groups) have been marked as ‘Excluded from SLA property’I've hunted for any Groups, Subclients that may have had an effect on the VM’s (There are non) and finally realised this ‘exclusion’ has been set at an individual VM level.Rather than clicking through each individual VM, is there a QScript I hope I havent missed something simple - as Excluded from SLA Property is a purposeful exclusion through a CommCell Option - But I simply cannot find where the exclusion is be ‘pushed’ fromAnd typically hitting ’Include in SLA’ (See the image above) will (sometimes) provide a reason why a VM is excluded and also ‘warn’ you that other related VM’s in ‘Group/Client/Subclient xyz’ will also be included   

Hello, guys. So we are having this issue on this thing.We are currently backing up some files from the physical disk(RDM) attached to the VMs.Based on the report for today,...The capacity license has been exhausted ,(those VMs were onboarded as individua clients), the VMs with virtual disks were all successful, but the customer is saying the file system backup of those RDM disk should consume the VM license and not capacity.  Is there how to do a workaround on this. They still have about 60 VMs licenses that has not been consumed. Will really be glad if I get someone with experience on this to help clarify or suggest the best way to go

Hello to all!In a fresh Commvault installation for o365 backup, I’m trying to find the way to manual exclude some user licenses from SharePoint online!From the first time when configured the SharePoint online, automatically assign all the o365 users to SharePoint Online license (from Application User Licenses tab).From Command Center Im available to manual exclude users from Exchange and also OneDrive, but I cant find a way to exclude users from SharePoint online. In order to save some user licenses :)Any idea ?

Hello,Could someone please provide the proper steps to decommission the Windows media agents and asssociated DDB, and Disk Libraries?   We have migrated to hyperscale and the legacy environment needs to shutdown.  It is just running DDB backups and Index backups.

I would like to take some of our long term tapes and copy them to our cloud instance, but when I right click on the tape and select recopy - I get “Recopy operation for media of a primary copy is not allowed”, when I try tape to tape I only see the on-prem libraries so I cannot trick it into going to our cloud instance.  How would I go about doing something like this.  I would like to get away from being dependent on having a specific library around for older tapes that we are required to keep long-term.  Especially when those tape libraries go end of life and I still have tapes that can only be read in them. 

Hello Commvault Community, I want to ask you and ask for help on overwriting the Oracle database. A daily schedule is created to overwrite the Oracle databases from "abc.PROD." to "abc.TEST". The process is correct, but after the operation is completed, the overwritten database often remains in the "STARTED" instead of "OPEN" mode. We can raise it to the "OPEN" state and the situation is ok. Repeating the overwrite operation is also always correct and the database is available. Are we able to somehow change the configuration so that the database is always in the OPEN state, and not STARTED, after the overwriting task is completed? Tasks end with the status "Completed with errors". Error Code: [19: 1336] Description: Oracle Restore [Failed to execute the create controlfile script. Please run this script [shutdown immediate; startup nomount; @ '/ opt / commvault / Base / Temp // CreateControlFileScript_1645579842.sql'; exit; ] manually again from sqlplus, open the database with resetlogs

Hi all,Is Commvault aware of the ‘new’ PHP vulnerability?Received this from a customer: Vulnerabilities detailsVulnerability Name CVE-2021-21708Severity CriticalCVSS 9.8Exposed devices 4Affected products Php https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21708 CVE-2021-21708 DetailCurrent DescriptionIn PHP versions 7.4.x below 7.4.28, 8.0.x below 8.0.16, and 8.1.x below 8.1.3, when using filter functions with FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT filter and min/max limits, if the filter fails, there is a possibility to trigger use of allocated memory after free, which can result it crashes, and potentially in overwrite of other memory chunks and RCE. This issue affects: code that uses FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT with min/max limits.

I have an Availability Group backup in which I’m attempting to change the number of streams for data backup. Under its Subclient Properities, Storage Device, Data Storage Policy, I would like to change the Number of streams for data backup. But when I press OK, I receive a popup message showing: Failed to set activity control. Time selected should be greater than current time. Below is a screenshot. The other AG Subclient groups don’t have this problem when I make a change. What could cause this problem and how can I resolve it?  Edit: I found out that I will receive this message when I make any changes of any kind on this subclient. Simply looking at its properites and pressing OK without changing any values also shows this problem.

hi vaulter community, is there a report in commvault that can show when client’s first time backup date? thanks a lot in advanceDing 

Hello Everyone,i need help to get clarification about o365 retention and where should be controlled. In Commandcenter, i have o365 Backup Plan as Server Plan Type which associated w/ storage Policy, and o365 Plan as office 365 Plan Type which also has retention option.Ideally our required retentions as follows:Daily incremental to keep for 60 days Monthly Full w/ 12 months retentionhowever, it is said that o365 is forever incremental, Monthly full may not be available.Questions:which retention should it be managed, storage policy or o365 Plan? if Monthly full is not available, how would you recommend configuring retentions as alternative? Also, does retention policies under Commcell-->Policies-->Configuration policies→ Exchange Policies applicable to o365 exchangeonline backup? or it is the same controls in o365 Plan retention settings?thank you for your feedback.

Good day,I have a Windows Server running a domain controller.- Virtual Server backup goes through.- Active Directory backup goes through- Windows File system does a backup up to 99% and fail with ArchiveIndex initialization 

Hi Can I backup and restore VSS Writer like this   /Matts

Hi, Everyone…. I am currently in my environment and we are backing up OVM virtual machines. While backing up the VMs, commvault created a snapshot and mounted it on the production OVM Manager. It truncates it after the backup is completed.  Is it possible for the snapshots not to mount on the OVM manager at all? It actually affected production last time night. Please, help out

Hi, Backup jobs are not working error is showing Error Code remote Machine. the socket connect failed. Error returned 8400 failed to find tunnel for any.I have uninstall and install the client three times, but problem is not resolved.Please asset me. How to fix this issue. Thanks & RegardsRajinder 

Hello All,I would like to know how to make sure that data on S3\ any other storage on cloud and media agents on cloud are safe from ransomware attacks.I have plan of using WORM storage mode but I am not aware what is the pre requirements.https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/expert/9251_configuring_worm_storage_mode_on_cloud_storage.htmlBut I would like to know what all consideration to be made before I execute the above workflow.Also I would like to know once the workflow is executed on any existing storage pool, is that mean the data which is already available on the storage pool is immutable or any new data written to it is immutable?Any suggestions?RegardsAnanth

Hello, One of the Media Agents keeps running out of space and I am trying to determine why this is happening and what else stored on this particular drive can be deleted.  I believe that this is caused by new content being written to our DR_Backup folder as it is over 400GB (drive is only 500GB).   I would like to know what they files are for and to what extent they can be reduced / deleted. Additionally there is another folder on the same drive that I believe can be deleted but I wanted to double-check. The folder “CV_Install” looks like it contains the installer/setup from when our backup server was implemented (before my time) but pressing delete on folders without being sure is a good way to have a bad day.  This might be related to another issue I need to chase up where Disaster jobs are failing but I can’t determine why.  I inherited responsibility of our Commvault system late late year without any formal training so please excuse any noob questions. Thanks 

Hi everyone,I'm using the cvpysdk package in the last version 11.26 and I'm trying to backup and restore cloud apps instance.The problem is that when I try to get the instance from the agent I get a KeyError exception with the key accessKeyId.I'm using the command:instance = agent.instances.get("instance name").(I was able to get the agent from type cloud apps and the instance name ia correct). Does anyone succeeded in getting the instance from cvpysdk?Thanks.

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