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Hi Techies, We have 11.32.49 and its job controller do not show correct job status / progress in Java console. Sometime it will update real-time, sometime 20 to 30 minutes delay. Thought we have open a support case and awaiting RCA. In the meantime, I am sure many of you have come across similar issues.  This problem that I explained above is with all types of jobs. In fact library space also messed up badly.  

Recently I was tasked with restoring ACLs on a file share that was accidentally overwritten.  When I started working on the recovery I had an issue that I was  unable to see what the permissions were on the folders and files in the backup and the only way I was able to determine which backup had the data that I needed was to restore multiple times until I was able to find a backup that had the ACLs on them.  Is there a better way to do this?  Is there an option in Commvault that I’m not aware of to be able to view the ACLs on the backup copies of the data? Thanks for your time.-Adam

Background: We are taking weekly synthetic fulls (daily incrementals) and only writing the “last full of the month” to tapes.Question: If we moved to *not* doing weekly syn fulls and chose something else like bi-monthly or 1 Syn full/month, all other things being the equal (like our retention and tape writing stays the same), are there any benefits to storage on disk or “possible issues to consider”?Comments: I bet “restoring something is likely to take longer as it may have to reconcile many more incrementals” but I’m mostly hoping that less syn fulls - less data stored on local storage, but I’m not sure if this is true.  I can’t think of any other possible issues other than if you have corrupt/bad incrementals (for whatever reason), that would be much more of an issue than always having a weekly full to compensate, if a restore was needed.

Guten Tag, wir haben eine Tape Library die in der Vergangenheit verschiedene Jobs aufbewahrt hatte. Nun haben wir das Problem das die Library vollgelaufen ist und wir bestimmte Bänder nicht freibekommen, weil verschiedene Jobs die nicht ausgealtert sind das Band nicht freigeben und teilweise wegen ein Job noch gehalten wird.  Wir wollen versuchen jetzt in Zukunft ein sauberen Jobs auf dieTapelibrary bringen.  Kann man irgendwo in Commvault einstellen das bestimmte Jobs einer Storage Policy in eine bestimmte Medien Gruppe / Storage Pool der Tape Library geht und andere Jobs die halt eine kürze Vorhalte Zeit haben dann woanders auf der Library kopieren. So das sie nicht im gleichen Medien unterkommen? Vielen Dank für die Zeit zum lesen. 

GreetingsI’m busy testing the EDC to migrate from Backup Exec to Commvault.I must stress that I”m using a trial license of Backup Exec and Commvault to test this, so this may be causing my issue. When I install and configure the EDC on the BE Master Server, I don’t get the option to configure the connection settings to the BE server as listed below.It auto configs with no options to edit any settings.https://documentation.commvault.com/2024/expert/discover_and_migrate_external_data_connector.html I simply get the below with no options to configure the instance options:  As a result, the Discovery fails in connecting to BE.I tried to then create the xml answer file using the below example that could be used to run the discover. The file doesn’t create. CVForeignHandler –collectdata –vendor 13 –user "bsmith" –password "be348n2" -vm "Instance001" –cn "client1" What I did note is that when running the edc_backupexec.bat command from the cloud option, I get the below errors in the files cre

Hi when i tried create SQL  instant clone for table restore instant clone job always getting error likle this  SQL server runing on ESX  any idea ?thanx   

Hi Team,Recently we had multiple clients because of which license was over utilized to 130%. so, I disabled the clients for which backup isn’t required and now the license utilization is at 92% but I still see the below error.“The system is over the licensed capacity/usage. Data management jobs will not run.Please contact your software provider to purchase additional capacity/usage licenses.Click the link for details on how to address over-capacity or over-usage situations.”Could you please suggest if I need to worry because it says Data Management jobs will not run.

Hey all,quick questionHave you ever noticed this error?It only affects a handful of users.What exactly does the error mean?

I need a report listing all the servers that need to be updated/ upgraded to the latest release. Could you please advise from where i can get such report  Thanks  

Hi all, Any idea how can I add/get the below tiles to the Dashboard? Health Report: Disk Library Growth TileHealth Report: Live Sync Status Tile https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/health_report_live_sync_status_tile.htmlhttps://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/health_report_disk_library_growth_tile.html

Hi everyone, I have live sync enabled between two comm cells “Active and Passive”. DB maintenance haven’t run since around 2 years. the workflow is disabled unfortunately.  I need to run the command dbmaintenance -full on the active server. Shall I disable the live sync before running the command? Do I need to run the same command on the passive commcell server as well? Thanks in advance 

Is it possible to configure CDR in K8s

Hello,We want to make Hardware Refresh for Media Agent.After install new Media Agent on new server with Windows Server 2019 Standard everything goes well. In CommServe MA is ready.After add LUNs from disk storage for bakups still everything goes well.But after add LUNs from other disk storage with VMFS datastores, MA goes offline in CommServe with offline reason:"The MediaAgent if offline is initialising and refreshing the device information"And this state cannot be repaired with:- reboot system and services- repair software- delete LUNs with VMFS datastores and after that all of aboveOnly after deleteed LUNs with VMFS datastores, full delete MA and new installation, MA gone ready.But if we again adding LUNs with VMFS datastores, MA goes offline again. (on that step we found where MA goes offline)Adding LUNs VMFS datastores with rules described:https://documentation.commvault.com/v11/expert/best_practices_for_virtual_server_agent_with_vmware.html- automount disable- LUNs present with R

Hello,We are running commvault 11.28.52 and currently testing the PostgtreSQL Agent. In our testing environment, we have two PostgreSQL 12 Servers running as a cluster with one Primary active server and one standby server. The servers are Linux-based VMs.We are performing backups and restores from the primary server. However, every time we restore the DB from the FSBasedBackupSet, the replication between the nodes stops working. What are the Best Practices for FsBased cluster restore and how to perform restore correctly from this backupset?

Hi,I have been testing de VirtualizeMe function and I have a problem with a system with a “peculiar” disk design.This system has a LVM partition spanning over 6 disks (I know, right?) and I get an error at the format disk step.Anything in particular where this couldn’t work? 

Hi all. I’m curious to know what speed others see when doing a Vmware NBD restore.Hardware, configuration ect. is not important, just want to know the speed, as I do not know if my restore speed is fast or slow.I get around 450Gb/h when restoring a single server via NBD. What do you get? Thanks-Anders

Are there any issues with creating a Secondary Copy for a Plan via the CommCell Console, with the intent of promoting that copy to Primary?For whatever reason, the Plan isn’t correctly listed within Command Center, and as such I am concerned about causing further issues if attempting the change via Command Center. Plans are terrible.

 Hello can I find this option in the command center in the plan option ?I mean to the advanced option in the second picture from the commcell console thanks!

The evening of Friday April 6, I upgraded my CommVault installation from 11.32.38 to 11.34.20. Following the upgrade (which required reboots of almost all the client computers), the Friday evening backups seems to be running normally.  When I returned to work on Monday morning I have roughly 300 Alert emails regarding “unusual job activity” on various servers.  Weirdly, some of the alerts say zero files have been changed:Anomaly NotificationAn unusual job activity was detected in Job [751258], type [Root Size Change]. Details: Unusual number of file operations in client [INF-SQLP104] - created files: [0], deleted files: [0], modified files: [0], root size change of [0.00] GBDoes anyone know what the problem is and how to stop all this spam? Is there a way to turn off these notifications?ThanksKen

Hi all, Any idea how can I add/get the below tiles to the Dashboard? Health Report: Disk Library Growth TileHealth Report: Live Sync Status Tile https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/health_report_live_sync_status_tile.htmlhttps://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/health_report_disk_library_growth_tile.html

Hello everyone,I am currently facing a problem:Backup for a large CIFS volume (> 50 TB! on NetApp) should run as follows:1. backup as incremental via SnapShot on productive filer several times a day2. transfer the SnapShots via snapvault to a backup NetApp via snapvault (aux copy)so far no problem ... then:3. backup of the last incremental SnapShot of the week from the backup Netapp to S3 (with DDB) and then synthetic full to get a new full again.-> This is possible in principle as the backup is incremental but a snapshot always contains everything. This means that only the diff of this last snapshot to the last synthetic full has to be backed up and this is only approx. 2 - 3 TB per week.4. once a quarter backup of the last (synthetic) full from S3 to tape (regulation) … no problem as well Unfortunately, Backup Copy ignores all incremental backups wif I use selection rules (even with “Apply selection rule for snap jobs” selected). I can either specify "all backups" here, but the

Good afternoon!Could you help me with the problem of restoring the exchange mailbox archiveError Code: https://[14:139Description: Browse failed during searching for results in the index.

Is there a single report that provides the following details: Backup type, backup content, storage policies, retention, schedules, and the size of the full backup?

Hi team, I am trying to restore ACLs only for one of the folder from VMware backup. is that possible with VM backup. We have configured VM level backup for the server, dont have File system backup Please suggest

I have a customer protecting M365 with Commvault.  The Azure apps for SharePoint online are showing the following status issues: Checking the application permission these permissions are granted via the Graph API as below:  When I look at our Metallic tenancy the SharePoint Online App permissions have two additional permissions granted:Documentation for both on-premises & cloud doesn’t mention the SharePoint API permissions, but are these are what is required to clear the error in the app configuration? API permissions listed for cloud: https://docs.metallic.io/metallic/request_and_grant_permissions_to_azure_apis_for_azure_app_for_sharepoint_online.html On premises: https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/request_and_grant_permissions_to_azure_apis_for_azure_app_for_sharepoint_online.html