Self-Hosted Q&A

Hello I need to migrate an existing commserve with mediaagent role to a new site/server.During the migration both existing and new commserve should remain active for backups for about three months. Then old commserve will just be preserved for legacy restores.How can this be best achieved without buying a seperate license for new commserve? Thanks

Hi,I want to use Commvault to backup Azure DevOps. I don’t have the option “DevOps” however under “Protect” in  Command Center, as described here: https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/add_azure_devops_app.html (just doing a pre-check).How can I get the option to add the Azure Devops App? Or will the option be there after I have installed the necessary software (Cloud Apps) on the proxy server?Thanks!

Hello,Maybe a dumb question but is it possible to do 1-Touch restoration by a Network Gateway ?Regards,Fabrice

 Good evening, we have noticed some discrepancies with Commvault backup logs in that we are unable to view failed backup logs for an specific Oracle server.  It seem that when a backup is successfully rerun, the logs are overwritten, and when you try to view them the logs are not available.  Is this a known function? RegardJohan

Hello everyone,a customer contacted us and reported that the VSS files on the domain controller were bloated on C:\System Volume Information. He suspects either Commvault or VMware. I looked at several things but couldn't come to a clear conclusion. Maybe someone here knows this behavior and can give me a tip for the solution if this comes through Commvault. Kind RegardsThomas

The upgrade to the latest maintenance release failed.  I believe it is because Commvault thinks it is running Centos7.  Can I change the OS information in Commvault or do I have to remove the client and re-add it?Thanks,Tuesday

I’ve installed CV2023e on Windows 2022 server. Connected a Fujitsu Eternus LT40S2 however CV is unable to configure the library. See images. OS detects the library. What could be the issue? REgards, 

Hello experts,My datacenter  has physical servers HP proliant dl 380 gen 8.I performed full backup of windows server 2012 which was successful and trying to do 1-touch bare metal restore in other server of same model, it just keeps progressing endlessly as shown in the picture.NOTE: The bare-metal restore for same server to esxi is successful but not to the physical server. Will appreciate any help.

We have several remote offices in the Asia-Pacific region.  We are interested in deploying a Media Agent at AWS to service those locations.  These locations don’t have VPN access to AWS so we would need to send data securely from on premise servers in the several countries to the media agent for long term storage.  Servers are small, windows servers,  generally less than 2TB of file data with small rates of change.  No VMs.I am looking for some help to configure networking from the on premise servers to the Media Agent at AWS. 

Hi,the customer would like to use one plan for backup both: filesystem and database. The problem is that in ‘Add backup frequency’ He can choose only between ‘all agents’ and ‘databases’. It means when we have two actions: incremental at 5PM and differential for databases at 7PM it triggers SQL database differential backup twice at 5PM and 7PM.  He tried to modify schedule in CommCell console but he gets an error ‘failed to modify task’’.So the main problem is that we can choose only between all agents and databases. We can’t choose granular.  Does it mean that for fileservers and databases we should use separate plans?  Regards,Lukasz

I am getting “Internal error occurred -5” on Readiness Check on several clients after the 11.32.35 upgrade. Backup seems to be working still, but we can’t have this “false positive” alert every day.(Upgrade was done 4 days ago, so I don’t think it is something that will go away “by itself”.)We have tried restarting the commvault services on the clients, also the commvault repair option. No improvement.Anyone know what could be the cause? 🖖

Hello Commvault Teamwhy Commvault drop the support of Netapp Active IQ Unified Manager (AIUM aka OCUM) 9.11 ? Active IQ Unified Manager (AIUM) 9.11 is not supported https://documentation.commvault.com/2023/expert/33744_system_requirements_for_netapp_storage_array.html by Netapp documentation it seems that AIUM 9.11 have the same functionality of previous versions https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/active-iq-unified-manager-911/data-protection/concept_manage_and_monitor_protection_relationships.html

Good morning.  We’re considering MS SQL Server always-on using the new 2022 feature “Contained Availability Groups” This feature adds an MSDB and Master database to the AG group, which allows jobs and users to be synced between machines. Is this functionality currently supported?  How might it work for restores/backups? Thanks- Chris

問い合わせ内容①simpanaでサーバのバックアップ状況をメールでこちら側に送信しているが　内部的にバックアップ状況を記録したログはあるのか？②ログがある場合は、ログを送ってもらえないか 趣旨バックアップ確認を自動化させようと考えており、ログの結果があればバックアップステータスを自動で反映させることができるため

Error Code: [32:408]Description: The usage for [Protected Virtual Machines] has exceeded the licensed usage. Please purchase additional usage licenses. Until the new license is applied, click on the RESET button in control panel license administration window to temporarily allow jobs. Advice: Please contact customer support for additional license.Source: snf-comvltbkp, Process: JobManag

Hi Team, I am trying to use HTTP CLient in workflow to execute script to enable disable media agent but its not working whereas it doesnt return anything and doesnt execute the script as expected . URL : http://commservename/webconsole/QCommandIn BodyContetn-type =text/plainand body is mentioned below qoperation execscript -sn setmediaAgentProperty -si xpath:{/workflow/ForEach_3/N2MAs} -si 8 -si 0

Raw device backup and restore was successful for file system but validation is failing. Please find the error. An unrecoverable errors found on the same device.File system state is not clean for one of the file system, state is "clean with errors"

we are already taking a file server backup , now we enabled file server archive with archive plan do we need to run both plan or archive jobs will serve the purpose ?  

Happy New Year! We have recently offloaded the share job results folder for Office365 clients from one of our two Office365 Proxies to a shared storage in order to free up space on the proxy. All seems to work well since the move. I am now trying to delete the old folders from the proxy. Windows looks like it’s deleting the content but all is still there after the deletion.I suspect it might be the Commvault ransomware protection that prevents me, even though these content is not anymore configured in Commvault. How can I remove this obsolete content? Thank you,Zoltan

Hi teams, Have a good day, I needed a help. One of my clients has a backup issue related to indexing. I have also taken help from support but the issue has not been resolved, maybe the experiment is going on. If I delete the data from the problem job and then take a new backup, will it be ok? This is an issue of 20 days jobs. ThanksAmol

We are taking the backup for CIFS share (Netapp) by Commvault NDMP protocol. Need to know , whether NDMP uses file level backup or Block level backup .Because we are running robocopy for the CIFs share with Archive bit clear option to copy data manaully from CIFS share to other location . Does this have any impact for the current commvault backup for the cifs share . BR Sudhir T 

Full scale test instance of Commvault before deploying into production. Getting issues with viewing the contents of Hypervisor VM Groups, changing configuration of VM groups and some items using “view details” on the health report.“Default” Hypervisor VM Groups were created upon adding the hypervisors and the content left at the default / or all unprotected VM’s. Immediately upon creating the groups it is not possible to view the content tab without getting the detail flash very quickly on screen before displaying “something went wrong”. Also cannot change anything in the options section of the VM Group configuration page without “something went wrong”. I have deployed several instances of Commvault for test and this has happened on all instances. I have tried running the install again in repair mode and it does not resolve the issue. Note it is possible to view the content by looking at protected and unprotected VM’s but cant’ modify content from that page. Also issue

Hi, there seems to be a recent change, you now need to request to access/download the DR-sets.I can see some of the pros and cons, maybe you can tell us a little bit more about the reason and the process, the request is taking on the commvault side.I tried a testrun on friday, requested the download at 7:48 am (CEST) and got the request approved after 8h (at 3:32 pm (CEST).Also the request was sent to the mail-address of the account holder.If there was a real Disaster, i would have had to raise a ticket and hopefully could get the DR-Set faster, but that is another thing you need to do, and if you need the DR-Set, you will have your hands full.To improve the process, I would like to suggest the following additions:1.) Give a timeframe, how long the request will take. At the moment, there is no information and it would be good to get a timeframe. In a Restore-Test or other none vital operation, the 8h response time can be worked

Good evening.If someone is new in a Commvault environment, how do I recover user credentials for both web and java console. Commvault solution was configured by someone but left the company. What effort does it require to access the consoles? Kind Regards,Tshepo Chiloane

Hi, I see that the stream count is defaulted to 2. But I also read the all restores are single streamed except for a few iDAs. And oracle iDA is not one of them. Regards,Pedro