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all my back up jobs are failed and load showing DDB 100% we had some space issue on the DDB drive which is fixed , after that we are facing issue, also we started aux copy to metallic   

Hi, I’m implementing commvault on Azure VM, but I concern about commvault license on cloud.Can I use commvault normal on-premises license or it’s forbidden?Or should I use commvault license from Azure marketplace?https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en/marketplace/apps/commvault.commvault_complete_backup_recovery?tab=PlansAndPriceIf I must use Azure marketplace license, Can I buy it by virtual operating instance or it supports only per TB ? Thanks.

We see errors like below. Current solution from Commvault support is to limit the number of parallel tasks.30858 5816 08/09 07:07:48 24447881 [cvd] CloseFile() -xxxxxx-eu-central-1/GX4JNW_06.08.2020_05.24/CV_MAGNETIC/V_4706210/CHUNK_339211994, mode = WRITE, error = Please reduce your request rate. I also contacted AWS support and the answer was very detailed and explained how to improve the situation on software side, As you may already know, S3 has the capability to automatically scale its capacity as request rates increase for each prefix. In most scenarios, your application can potentially achieve up to 3,500 PUT/COPY/POST/DELETE requests per second per prefix. Due to this, there are no adjustments that can be made to your requests. However, to fully utilize S3's automatic capacity expansion, your workload should consistently process 3,500 or more requests per second, rather than occasional bursts of 3,500 requests per second. Furthermore, since S3's request limits are linked to pre

As far as I remember the Back-end Size for Disk Storage table below there was the expression disk instead of location. Any concept changes?  URL:https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/111985_hardware_specifications_for_deduplication_mode.htmlAnyway, why would we need two locations instead of one? To expand managed capacity? In the same Storage Pool? Let's imagine a storage pool with 4 nodes. Here storage pool and grid are synonyms. Right? So, each node with two disks of 2 TB SSD Class Disk/PCIe IO Cards? This two-disk (two-locations) configuration appears to suit the "Cross-site Replication Sample Configuration" scenario. A cross-site replication setup is when data from one site is backed up on location and a secondary copy of the backup is maintained on site two. Also, the site two has its own data backed up on location and a secondary copy of that data is maintained on site one.    

Good day Community,I have a customer with an All-in-one server CommServe/MediaAgent. We want to split the MediaAgent in a second instance (Instance002). But the MediaAgent is also used to index Exchange Online backups. It therefore has the IndexStore component installed and has existing indexes.Is there a procedure to migrate the MediaAgent AND IndexStore component? Probably a hardware refresh procedure for the IndexStore.Thanks in advance for you help.

Greetings all,I’m the DBA and not the commvault admin.  We have access to view our backup logs across the board with zero issues, but we are getting a permission denied when trying to view logs from our restore operations.  We absolutely need the latter.  Our commvault admins aren’t sure where to check.What permission might we be missing and where to check?Thanks! - Chris

we are having issue with our backups with the cluster config while running the backup on the client gettig below errorthe jobs kept on going to pending state when we tried to run one of the node we got below error , we have checked the telnet connection from cleint to MA 8403 and its working  

Most of the Commvault implementations we perform are making use of ‘Network Gateways’ / ‘Proxies’.To make it my life a bit easier, I’m using the ‘Network Gateway Appliance’ which can be downloaded on cloud.commvault.com. (https://cloud.commvault.com/webconsole/softwarestore/#!/130/704/19138).I noticed the latest version is still 11.20; which can still be upgraded. But the appliance is also CentOS7 based which is giving me more and more hassle.… as it’s approaching EOL.Are there any plans to renew the appliance ? Perhaps based on an Oracle Linux edition (such as the FREL appliance) ?I’m aware that the gateway / proxy is just a component and that I can install virtually any OS to function as a proxy. Just that it was nice having an officially supported OVA template ready to deploy ?I believe I should be able to use an FREL virtual appliance to setup proxies as well ? By just removing the MA role & software cache ?If you have any news, preferred approaches … please let me know.Kind re

Good Day Community, An auditing company is requesting the system generated user listings for Commvault from Jan 1st, 2023 – July 31st 2023, showing the following parameters:  o    user IDo    user status (active/disabled)o    user creation dateo    user disabled dateo    access roles/groupso    last login date.   Is there a report I can run that would give that information?If not, I’d like to create a custom report from the WebConsole, but what would be the table/view with the required information?Many thanks in advance.

Good morning,We’re using rman/cron to back up our Oracle instances to commvault; we patched from 19.19 to 19.20 this weekend, and I noticed entries in events indicating a mismatch.  How can I resolve this?Severity: MajorProgram: CIDBControlAgentEvent code: 18:6Description: Oracle home is not correct. Thanks!

Hi All, I have a large number of AWS S3 Buckets to protect however I have noticed that I am not able to create or use Auto scaling access nodes. Even HA for the access nodes is not an option as you can only select a single node in the config. you cannot select a group. How would I get HA for these access nodes apart from actually creating a OS Cluster to ensure HA? i can see as per Auto-Scaling for Amazon EC2 Access Nodes (commvault.com) that Auto-scaling is not currently supported for Amazon RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, EFS, FSx, or S3 backup. how do we ensure HA at a minimum?

Good evening,I am creating an automation (in PowerShell) which adds VM to subclient. I use Add-CVVirtualMachine command, and it works pretty well, however I am not able to catch any (unseccesfull) outputs.Example:$aaa = Add-CVVirtualMachine -ClientName $VCenter -SubclientName $Subclient -EntityType VM -Entity $VMName in case of errors $aaa is just null, despite on “INFO” showing: INFO: Get-CVVirtualMachine: virtual machine not found having name [xxxxx]INFO: PrepareContentBodyJson: virtual machine GUID not found for entity [xxxxx]INFO: Add-CVVirtualMachine: entity not found for add/remove virtual machine request Thanks

Hi,We have PostgreSQL server (Linux on VM) with DB ~7TB in size. We would like to have only full (or better  full+ inc combination) backup done once per day to be able to restore whole DB only to time of backup.That environment is probably to huge for streaming backup (dump or FS), so we would like to use block-level-backup.BLB requires WAL logging enabled and during snap backup additional log backup job is running automatically.It looks like snap backup is consistent because it quiesce DB and put into backup mode, make snap and run DB further. So it looks like in that case logs are not required during restore.We don’t want run log backup because that DB generates ~0,5TB  logs every hour and, if WAL enabled we need to run additional log backups hourly to delete logs from WAL directory (it takes about 40 minutes every hour). Additionally it requires a lot of space on LOG disklibrary,Is there any way to run PostgreSQL BLB FSBased backups without log backup? regards,Przemek

Hi All, Getting below error when running backup for Sybase database.               Error Code: [71:30]Description: Error while running a command on Sybase server :[Can't open a connection to site 'SYB_BACKUP'. See the error log file in the ASE boot directory. Can't open a connection to site 'SYB_BACKUP'. See the error log file in the ASE boot directory. Could not establish communication with Backup Server 'SYB_BACKUP'. Please make sure that there is an entry in Sysservers for this server, and that the correct server is running. DUMP DATABASE XP1 FULL is unable to clear the list of changed database pages. Future incremental dumps will be unnecessarily large until the next successful full DUMP DATABASE. ]

 Good morning,does anyone know if it is possible to list the properties (retentions) of the defined storage policy from the command line?RegardsDorothy

Hi All,Our organization is focusing on AI OPS as there next strategic move for better service delivery. We are currently evaluating the offerings from the different OEMs.Can someone shed some light in Commvault’s standpoint in the AI-ops implementation? How can we bring in AI in the current landscape which can help in improving the delivery of service? What are the service offerings and licenses involved (if any)?Regards, Kunwar Shashwat

Which Commservtable or view has the information about the current throughput and average throughputfor an actively running job , which we could find in the Job Controller. And what is the column name to get these details average throughput and current throughput for all the respective jobs in job controller.   For eg: the following Commserv view CommCellJobController only lists certain information like  

Hello,I am in the process of migrating to a new disk library. For all the Storage Policies I have created new corresponding copies for each site.The current Primary (1) and Synchronous (2) copies have a 30 day basic and 90 day full weekly retention configured.I now created 2 new copies but since I am writing to WORM storage I have configured the retention for both the new copies with 90 day basic retention. My issue is that not all the jobs are being copied. Only the first 4.The rest of the jobs have a status of “To be Copied & Disabled”. What does this mean?How can I get them automatically copied?Should I select the option “Pick for Copy” on all the required jobs? Thanks.Ignes  

Hello, TeamI have a environment where there are 3 sites; 1, 2 and 3. The Media agent in site one runs its jobs very fast while those in 2 and 3 are very slow. The scanning phase sometimes take up 2 1 hour for 200GB of data. The servers are Unix boxes and most of the jobs running are files system. The Media agents are also Unix boxes. Kindly help on how to get what the issue is

“”Error while backing up Oracle Database. Error Details [Online backup cannot be run while database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode.] i know that online backup is not possible if db ins nonarchive mode, what is procedure for offline backup , can commvault perfrom this what if we turn off non archive mode for initial backup and turn it on again

Hello,We run SQL server on VM’s on hyper-v.  Testing restore of master database to SQL instance; there doesn’t appear to be a way to do this through the web console, but the documentation states that this procedure would work for what we need:  Can anyone confirm restoring system databases requires the java console?  If not, can you point me in the right direction on the web gui?  I’m unable to find any advanced restore options alluded to above. Thank you - Chris

Hi Team, we have three hyper-scale appliance and same appliances connected with metallic cloud. Primary copy is in appliance disk and aux copy is going to metallic cloud. we have two DDB’s on appliance, aux copy is failing with below error. any inputs will be great.  157446 26727 08/09 12:32:51 703 LaunchGroupRemotePart2: SIDB_LAUNCH_AND_GET_PORT_RSP from machine [commbk01.carefree.local*commbk01.carefree.local*8400*8402] failed. Error [53090][The DDB device was not found.]157446 26727 08/09 12:32:51 703 ConnectGroupInternal: Cannot connect to SIDB Engine [4], Group [0] on machine [commbk01.carefree.local][commbk01.carefree.local*commbk01.carefree.local*8400*8402]. PortV4 [0], PortV6 [0]. Error [0x80070057:{CCvNetwork::Attach_RemotePort(1351)/W32.87.(The parameter is incorrect. (ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER.87))-Port passed is not valid. [0/0].}]157446 26727 08/09 12:32:51 703 Initialize: Cannot connect to SIDB engine with copy id [6] SIDBStoreId [4]. Error [Could not connect to the DDB pro

Hi,We use Commvault version 11.28.44. In BOL it states: “ An Azure storage account is no longer required for SharePoint agent restores.” (https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/18078_configuring_sharepoint_agent_for_office_365_01.html). However, when performing a restore, Commvault still asks for storage account details and I can’t submit the restore request. Am I something missing here?Thank you.

Hello All,The user is upgrading NetApp ONTAP from 9.7P9 to 9.9.1P16 on Saturday and needs clarification if this version is supported by Commvault V11 SP16.HPK192. It is true that 9.9.1P16 it is not listed as supported in the Commvault documentation (https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11_sp16/article?p=33744.htm).In view of the document being last updated a few years ago, could you please confirm if we extend support for the above-mentioned version. (Note: User is on NetApp ONTAP 9.7P9 which is also not listed in the documentation). Grateful for any help!

Does Commvault support tailing log backup?We have a customer who need that for one database I can’t find any options in Commvault for that.Do you have to run a script?