Self-Hosted Q&A

Hi All, We have a huge file system ( ~40TB with over 300M files ).It can be backed up with NDMP or to be mounted as NFS on a file server.The backup takes a lot of time to complete.What are the best practices / options in Commvault for such FS ?Block level backup maybe ??  Thanks 

Hello Community,Im reading articles / threads about pros and cons of Windows & Linux Servers, for your Commvault Environment.But let’s see, what’s the real winner?

Hi Team, Please help me for the examation

Currently my CommVault is using AD authentication which requires me to enter the same password I use when connecting to any server.  I’ve been asked to implement MFA using the Microsoft Authenticator as the second factor but the documentation is spread across several pages.  Is there a single step-by-step document that shows how to set up MFA with the Microsoft authenticator?  Do I have to disable SSO and the link to AD to get the Authenticator to work?Ken

Hi All,i’m deploying a Commserve on RHEL 8.8 and i can’t find SNMP enabler option in the installation menu.How can i set SNMP for Linux Commserve ? is there install by default when deploying Commserve on linux ?Kind regards,Christophe

Unfortunately I cannot install the Commvault Agent on the server. This error message occurs during installation. C++ packages are all installed. Restart already done. All Windows updates are installed. Installation directly on the client and from Commserv do not work.

Once install the second media agent, then it is showing offline.please guide us to make online or active.

Hi Community,I have a corrupted DDB Partition! This is a Azure Blob StoragePool Copy.The Job “Dedup DB Reconstruction” starts and trigger the Filesystem Restore Job.However, the job immediately reports an error “There was nothing to Restore” The last backup also did not save any data and the restore job will certainly refer to this. Is it possible to select the second last backup job? It contains the DDB partition Data Can I run the Filesystem restore manually and the "Dedup DB Reconstrution" workflow skips th

Hello all,Whenever i need to disable activity on a client there’s a need to approve this action.As a master user is there anything i can do to skip this approval? Kind regards,Joao

Trying to grant our database team the ability to suspend, kill, or resume backup/restore jobs as they do a lot of weekend work and are constantly calling me for support. They are currently associated to the client admins role. I edited the role to include Job Management but the suspend, kill, resume are still greyed out for them.

10TB capacity license in useCurrently, 6.97TB (about 70%) is in use.I'm going to add another client to back it upThe backup capacity is estimated to be approximately 4TB.If so, do I need to buy more licenses?And is the capacity measurement method of the license application size or data written capacity?

Hi,  I have customized the default workflow ‘Demo_ServiceNowCreateIncident’ available in Commvault to create incidents in ServiceNow if we have failed backups in the environment. This worked fine for almost a year.The ServiceNow was integrated with AD and all users including the service account were accessing the ServiceNow using SSO. The user the workflow uses to Authenticates with ServiceNow every time the workflow triggers is an AD service account user. The AD user will login to ServiceNow using its credentials and OAuth token. But now that the Client enabled MFA on all their AD accounts due to Security policy, the workflow no longer works.  I tried to open a case with Support to request a workaround for this issue, and Support wants us to provide as much information as possible and what type of authentication can be used with ServiceNow. I don’t know what other authentication methods can be used to login to ServiceNow without triggering the MFA

Can we install second media agent on existing commserve infra? actually, already schedule the backup and after second media agent installed, the respective schedule backup job changes the Media agent as second one. then will happen any issue or will backup start form be beginning what? 

HelloI installed commvault using CommvaultExpress_Media_11_34, I have selected:Create a new CommCell Create New DatabaseI saw message: Installation and configuration completed successfully with Command Center URL and Metrics Reporting URL.I opened /commandcenterurl. However, no wizzard to configure initial credential appeared. Tried to used windows server credential but didn’t let me log in.How can I login?  

Hi Team, I have two separate SQL Servers. Can I make a definition such that when the backup of one ends, the backup of the other one starts after that?

Hello,Is there a way to change this sub-client attribute via REST API - ‘Auto Detect VM Owner’ ?We haven’t found and supportive documentation for it.Thanks

Dear community,After initial Commvault installation, noticed that Im getting Anomaly notifications about “No Schedule” for “File System” about MediaAgents.Considering that all MediaAgents have internal backup jobs for DDB, INDEX (?) etc, is there any suggestion for further protection?What is the best practice to protect Media Agents?Best regards,Nikos

We have a user that is able to bypass the need for entering in their password + MFA token when logging into the Java console. This user is part of a group where MFA is enabled and SSO is disabled for our environment. I'm not sure what the reason for this would be? When the user initially logs in through the Java console, then opens up the web console, their login for some reason persists. So if they close out the Java console after closing out of the web console, they are then able to login to the Java console without the need for entering in their password or token. It seems as though for some reason the login session persists through the web console. I’m pretty sure this is an additional setting that needs to be modified somewhere, but I’m not exactly sure where this might be?

Hello,Do virtual machines that are added to the VM filter consume licenses?Do virtual machines that are used only for VSA proxying consume licenses?Thank you

i have seen the documents for oci pca backup and i was checking vsa proxy requirement it was referring vm manager in the requirement.  https://documentation.commvault.com/2024/essential/oracle_cloud_infrastructure_for_private_cloud_appliance_pca.htmland system requirement for proxy is below , is there any connectivity requirement ?https://documentation.commvault.com/2024/essential/oracle_cloud_infrastructure_system_requirements.html  

So, I’ve got a ticket in for this, but have only recieved remedial solutions.  Basically, when we back up the dedupe database, its snapshot appears to be happening ok, but it’s missing files, as in they’re simply not there (see below).   It’ll take days of downtime (hundreds of servers not backed up) if we simply need to rebuild this.  Could this be a corrupt DDB?  Anyone else seen this issue?  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.Source: MyMediaAgent1, Process: clB

Trying to do a decoupled installation of the agent on a RHEL server. Can complete the decoupled installation on the client without issue however when going to add the client in Commserve and using the option “Fetch the configuration information from the client that is already installed in decoupled mode” there is no option to tell it to use the Network Gateway that all remote agents connect through. How can this be achieved? 

It appears that AD-based Accounts are now subject to account lockout rules - is this an 11.32 feature, or has this been around for a while? Also, is there / is there going to be a method to unlock accounts via the CommCell Console, or am I going to be forced to use the Command Center?

​ Hi, We are trying to restore a single DB (Out of place) using DumpBasedBackupSet, but it fails with the below error: Source:Postgres version : 10.17OS: CentOS stream 8 Destine:Postgres version : 14.11OS: CentOS stream 9    Job log:=============================================================================4072164 3e2328 03/25 19:25:17 21322972 PostgresRestore::OnBufferPlFsHdr() - fifoname = /opt/commvault/iDataAgent/jobResults/CV_JobResults/2/0/21322972/testingdb4072164 3e232f 03/25 19:25:17 21322972 PostgresRestore::applyPostGres() - Enter4072164 3e232f 03/25 19:25:17 21322972 PGCommon::GetPGLibraryPath(1479) - Couldn't find library [/usr/pgsql-14/lib/libpq.so] , try to locate libpq.so.x v

Hello, Our security team has found a vulnerability in Python36. Now I saw that 38 and 39 are also on the CommServe. My question now is how can I clean this up? In the overview of the programs installed in Windows, I don't see anything from Python because it was delivered with Commvault. To solve the problem I would have to get rid of Python36 but I would like to simply delete the folder without consulting here.Is anyone able to help me ?RegardsThomas