Self-Hosted Q&A

I need a user which has the permission to enable/disable scheduler and kill/suspend jobs in the job controller. My problem is that I can’t select only the commserve as Association in the user group. The user shouldn’t be able to see more than the commserve object.I can only select every entity, see in the following screenshot: I added the following permissions:Does anyone has a solution for thsi issue?

Hi Commvault Community,I’m searching for a precise method to export all job IDs that “live” in every Disk / Cloud Library in our Commcell environment.From a previous case, Commvault support mentioned that the recommended way is by querying the Deduplication Policy DDB (from the CommCell Console, under Storage Resources > Deduplication Engines, then view Jobs).Question:Is there a command line tool (like qoperation, qlist, or REST API) that can export all job IDs from a DDB (including Files, Databases & VMs Deduplication Stores)?   instead of manually exporting jobs manually from the GUI?The goal is somehow to automate these reports for audits, analytics, or targeted operations (such as clean-up, reporting etc). Please for your feedback.Nikos

Hello Community and Happy New Year!In a client, we have a primary storage policy using a Disk Library (DDB). Needed also a tape out (copy-2). The HPE tape library is already configured and accessible via MediaAgent.For these auxiliary copies (Copy-2) to tape, we need to create two distinct groups: Weekly backups with 4 weeks retention Monthly backups with infinite retention   What is the recommended best practice?Stick with the default storage pool for both aux copy types (and rely on retention rules/scheduling to differentiate)? Or create two dedicated storage pools (e.g., "Weekly_Tape_Pool" and "Monthly_Tape_Pool"), assign specific tapes/drive pools to each, and configure the aux copy operations/rules to target the appropriate pool based on backup frequency?Also, it’s important the tapes to remain strictly separated, no mixing of weekly and monthly data on the same tapes!  Thanks in advance for your insights and real-world experience!Best regards,Nikos

Hello Commvault Community, Do you have any news about problems using the AllowUnsetComplianceLockOnDRCopy key for SP36?The ability to remove the Compliance Lock for the Primary copy within the CommServeDR StoragePolicy works for lower (SP32 for example) and higher (SP40 for example) Service Packs.I currently have a case where this key doesn't work in three lab environments (SP36).It's added at the global level for the entire environment (CommCell level) and is set to true: When I go to the CommServeDR policy, the option to remove the lock does appear, but after accepting the warning and closing the window with "OK," it doesn't load this setting and back to the previous setting.And after closing: Any idea what is going on? Thanks in advance!Kind Regards,Kamil

Hello Experts,In recent research I saw that CBT is now available for Oracle OCI, also Metallic is supporting VSA with CBT enabled. Not sure if this capability is available for CommVault Cloud Software, can you help me with this question? Kind Regards.JT

Hi,I understand that recently compliance lock is available for disk whereas originally it was for S3 specifically. While I don’t see the option to enable it via Command Center, in the console tape copy properties have the Compliance Lock box to check. So my question is - enabling this on tape copies is or isn’t supported? thanks

Hello All: It seems that CV is moving in a Rocky Linux direction, so I thought it would be good to replace my Windows MA’s with Rocky.  However, after chatting with Arlie it’s not supported for a Linux MA to backup Windows FS data (NetApp - NTFS vol).  It can backup via NFS, however it will loose the ACLs.I have for years used Windows to backup Linux volumes, so it would seem logical it could work in reverse.Thoughts?Dan 

Hi All, there was an option in the cloud.comvmault.com webconsole portal to use the staging feature. The DR Backup was uploaded and than an cs with restored db was created. An link with login credentials was provided. Now over the command center i dont see this option any more. Is it gone ? thanks for help

Hi,We have SP36 commserve and we tried to use the Nutanix Image with 11.36 available for download, but it doesn’t contain the /etc/initfrel_sc script that allows FREL to run. Please check the following image.https://cloud.commvault.com/commandcenter/#/softwareStore/33251The documentation appears to be out of date.https://documentation.commvault.com/2024e/commcell-console/deploying_file_recovery_enabler_for_linux_with_nutanix_acropolis_hypervisor_ahv_cluster.html I need the correct package containing the FREL activation script. Do you have any other image for Nutanix FREL? Regards,Michał

HiI have a problem with a Commvault LiveSync setup running with Rocky linux ver. 8.When I am doing a test failover all is looking good. But when I am trying to do a maintaince failover, the maintaince failover fails.It is faillling under the recovery process on the standby node with the error saying “Failed to generate new CS client certificate”.  I have been trying to stop the selinux and firewall on both CS, and still are getting this error. Does any have a idea on what is the problem?

Hi Commvault experts,We are designing an archiving workflow and we’d like to get your advice on the best practices. Let’s assume the source is NetaApp with SnapLock volumes (WORM) and target LTO tape library with WORM media.Our goal is to move/archive data from NetApp SnapLock volumes to WORM tapes for long-term retention (10+ years).What is the ideal storage policy for this setup? Does it make sense to use a “staging disk” as a Primary Copy and then a DASH copy to the tapes, or is there a better workflow for WORM volumes (primary copy directly to tapes)?We are also choosing between two tape strategies. The first is a "Clean Archive" where data is written only once to save media. The second is "Periodic Fulls" where we write the full archive again every so often for better safety. Given that the source data is immutable, which approach do you recommend?Your input will be much appraciated.

Hello,We got an repmgr postgres cluster, the backup works fine when i run them manually with both FsBasedBackup and dumpBasedBackip.i have assigned a plan for the cluster client, but only the dumpBasedBackup jobs are runninng, the FsBasedBackups jobs dont even start.I would like help with that problem.

My VMware admin has created new datastores for a restore test but I don’t see them when I attempt a restore. How do I get Commvault to discover new datastores?ThanksKen[Edit] I’m running Commvault 11.36.83. [/Edit]

Hi All, Our costumer ask, what is the basic encryption Commvault used on another word we not select on specific chipper?

Hello Commvault Community, We have this situation:There are MS SQL servers that have transaction logs backup during the day. Full backups are made only outside working hours. Sometimes, however, it happens that during the day, for some reason (the logs show that communication with the media agent was interrupted), a broken chain is made and the transaction logs backup is converted to full.Unfortunately, we can't do full house during the day, because it overloads the source servers. What we tried to do:1. Uncheck "convert" in the subclient properties - it did nothing, the backup was still converting.2. Do a "full data management" subclient blackout window for these servers within business hours. The workaround for blackout windows should work in theory, but if the conversion takes place, the job is still process in the JobController as "transcational log" and not full (although in reality it is already full). This is probably why the blackout window does not cover this job.The question

Hi folks, I want to ask, what is your SQL restore throughputs for large DBs.We have a 8.4TB database that takes around 18hrs to restore with average throughput around 478GB/hr.Wondering if this can be improved without introducing IntelliSnap.Network is not a bottleneck. SQL server is hosted on all flash array and the backup target is HSX. Cheers,Marcin

Hi,I’m testing backup of M365. I’ve setup Commvault instance 11.40.34 on Windows.I’ve added Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business - no problem.But when I’m trying to add Sharepoint Online app (throught Protect → Office 365 → Sharepoint Online - Configure now) then app is added, but it’s not Sharepoint but Exchange.I’ve setup separate applications for all apps with proper permissions according to the documentation.I just did everything similar to adding Exchange or OneDrive, tried few times with no luck. Any ideas?

Hi All, short question :) We have nutanix ahv vms with quest os windows 11 and tmp active. We are running cv 11.40.10 when we try to run vsa snaphsot we are getting the error vm not found. Do you know if this constellation is supported ? 

Hi Team,I would like to understand how IntelliSnap backups work and the detailed backup workflow, step by step.Could someone please explain this in detail? Your help is much appreciated.Thank you in advance!

If Install the 2 Independent commcell is it possible later to set-up this as a live sync?

Hi all. How would the procedure be, to do a Linux OS refresh from Rocky Linux to RHEL? The servers have local OS, ddb and index disks, and the MA’s have block storage mounted disks for the library.The hardware need to be reused, so I just want to reinstall OS, but keep DDB, index, library data, server name and IP, so that the server can continue operations after the Linux OS refresh.. Any suggestions on how to do this and any recommendations appreciated. Regards-Anders  

Hi,I was wondering how people are scheduling backups. (for example file system backups)Do you only run incrementals and Synthetic fulls? Or do you sometimes run a “real” full?For example, 1 “real” full a month, a daily incremental and a weekly synthetic full.I’ve always heard never to “only” use incrementals and synthetic fulls, and to slip in a “real” full backup once in a while. What would be the reasoning behind it?Looking forward to hear your feedback.

Hi Vaulters, In order to implement a Vault site which will contain one MediaAgent in it, we wanted to restrict the communication of this MediaAgent to only the CS + MAs in Prod site and make connection only be established through the Vault site. To make things even securised, we wanted to use a dedicated port for the Vault MA unstead of the defaults 8400/8403. Seems this can be achived through One-Way network topology while setting : Vault MA → Prod CS/MAs.But not sure about the customized port to be used, as from OS/Network perspective only the custom port will be allowed between the Vault MA and Prod CS/MAs. Should the custom port be set in the below screenshot during topology creation or set as an additional setting in the Vault MA (nCVDPORT) or both ? How to let CV know that the communication will only be established by the Vault MA and use a defined port ?  This is a bit confusing.Thanks in advance. 

Hi,I am encountering an issue with VSA backups on a Nutanix AHV cluster.The Scenario: I ran a manual Full Backup for a specific VM. The job status is "Completed". Immediately after the job finished, I tried to browse and restore a vDisk (scsi-1). The file appears in the index, but when clicking restore, I get the error: "Cannot Restore since there is no data available" The Anomaly: Restoring the same VM from the scheduled nightly backup works perfectly. The issue seems specific to this fresh manual job.Environment: Commvault VSA for Nutanix AHV. Disks are standard vDisks (not Volume Groups / iSCSI Guest). Proxy has full access to the container (verified by the successful nightly restore). Question: Is there a known Indexing Commit latency specifically for AHV that prevents immediate restores right after job completion? Or is this likely a CRT/Snapshot lookup failure on the Nutanix CVM side during the manual run?Thanks.

Hi All, i´m looking for an prcess list for the rocky linux vsa template. We are using trendmicro as av vendor and we cant exclude an path for the processes so we need to exclude the processes manually. I did not find any list and ariel also not :)  Do you have an idear ?