Self-Hosted Q&A

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  

Hi All! I'm trying to figure out what could be the problem during bottleneck during my backups/restore that I do through Commvault; Some jobs come up "abnormal" so I would like to investigate more about that. I saw that you can use the PerfAnalysis.log files found on the media agent, but if I try to open one, this is its contents. 06/27 15:45:53 --- main(196) - Could not read log file or Performance counters for JobID 5155311 not found in the file Is the file perhaps only generated correctly in some situations?  

I’m being told by support that restoring PST is not possible using legacy indexing. That we must build a new Indexing server using CVSOLR indexing in order to restore PSTs. When did legacy indexing get deprecated? 11.34

Hello everyone,We still have a few public folders running on Exchange on prem and we recently upgraded from Exchange 2013 to 2019.  I’ve tried to configure backup but am getting:No service account(s) found for public folder processing. Please assure that a service account is assigned a malibox association with owner permissions on the root and subroot public folders in order to proceed with public folder operations.This looks to be an Exchange issue.  Is there documentation anywhere that shows the steps to configure Exchange?ThanksKen

I’d like to use VSA based File Indexing for a single Windows VM file serverThere used to be a tick box option in the JAVA Console / Subclient setup - But that seems to have disappeared. The Option now is to-Use VM Groups in Command Center easy to do)-But I’m then guided to use ‘Plans’ Is there anyway I can bypass this and use my existing Storage Polices  I’m happy to use a plan if needed (as I only want VSA file indexing for a single VM - so this would be ‘standalone / isolated plan - specific to a single VM)  

So.. last year we’d implemented a scheme where there were many subclients looking for VMs through vCenter as such:We later noticed a major drag on vCenter, which was causing lockups and such.  We then changed the scheme around to something simpler, with far fewer subclients.  The issue went away.  As I see it - we simply had overburdened our ESX servers/vCenter with too many authentications and checks. Now, it’s being suggested to me that we create far MORE subclients.  I’m thinking of taking what it’s found now per datastore and putting them into a static content as such: VMs in the future will be handled differently (we’ve got a policy setup using category\tags in vCenter

Hello everyone,i’m trying to configure Sharepoint online app.Following the documentation I should configure an Office 365 plan, but I can’t find it.From the Command Center, in Manage→Plans, as well as in Guided Setup→Office 365, there is only the Server backup plan.What am I doing wrong?Thanks and regards

Hi Community,our customer has upgraded the CommVault Environment from Version 11.28.102 to 11.32.45.Since the upgrade we have Issues with AUXCopies and the VMware VSA backups.We have this Issues with our 4 physical Media agents (Windows 2019) at the head office.The following errors occur sporadically on different DDBs and MediaAgents The following app crash events occur in the Windows log on all 4 MediaAgents

Hello, Are all the firewall ports listed here (data protection network, except 8400,8403,8800-8900) only need to be open between hyperscale nodes or are they also needed between commserve/clients and hyperscale nodes?Hyperscale nodes will be used as media agents. https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/firewall_port_requirements_for_hyperscale_x_reference_architecture.html

Hi  Could anyone please let me know how we can stop recovery on stub file. or the process name that needs to be disabled in the commvault.

how can I check all the port that currently being used in my ComVault environment? I check the link bellow for port requirement but wanted to make sure. Port Requirements for Commvault

How difficult is it to obtain authorisation to use the CommCell Console for new installations?Or am I better off just keeping an old Media Kit around?

Hoping to get an answer from the very well educated Community on the following question! What is the data path for Linux VM file / folder restorations done using FREL? What talks to what and over what port? Obviously, we have Media Agent and the VSA Access node involved writing directly into the ESXi datastore but where does the FREL fit into the connectivity picture?I have multiple ESXi hosts and a complex firewall configuration. I’m assuming a single FREL can service multiple ESXI hosts without issue but what ports do I need to open between which devices and which way? I’m guessing ports 8400 and 8403 but between which devices? TIA!

Hello all!Hope You are all doing fine!We are having a problem within our environment related with One Drive backup. For last few days we are getting this errors:  This “Generic download failure error” does not tell a lot to continue troubleshooting.Maybe one of You actually faced this kind of problem and know any to fix it or troubleshoot?

Hi all, I have a question regarding the association of Oracle (sub)clients to Plans. Let’s say I have the following schedules defined in my Plan: Incremental backup for all agent types: Daily at 22:00 Transaction Log backup for databases: Every 2 hours Full backup for databases: Every Friday at 20:00 An Oracle Client by default has: A “default” subclient (with Selective Online Full enabled) An ArchiveLog subclient If I assign the Instance or subclients to my Plan, which schedule(s) will then be applied to these subclients? In my opinion, the default subclient should follow schedule nr “3” because it’s a Full backup. And the ArchiveLog subclient should follow schedule “2” because it backs-up the logs. But is that indeed the case? I have my doubts about this. Thanks in advance!