Self-Hosted Q&A

Hi Guys, I am experiencing the same issue as :  whereby i am unable to change my storage policy retention settings from a remote comcell console. However my commserve is linux, so i have been trying to access the comcell console directly on the linux machine as provided in the solution above. However when i run the command console, nothing happens. I am not sure if there are any specific settings i need to configure to allow console access from linux. Does anyone know?

Hi Team,I have Storage policy and the primary library is IBM tape library. Due to space constraints few servers are assigned directly to the tapes. So, the concern is by default created the big data apps index server for the storage policy is going to the same storage policy. Is it right way to keep the index server's backup on tape.If incase, I have to require browsing 30 days old data, do required tapes and is there any copy saved on media server for index cache?PFB snapshot for reference.   

Hello Community, We’re going to migrate file servers to different hardware with new hostname, while keeping the same drive letter, data/content.Subsequently, once these new servers install/config into the Commvault, they will be linked to the identical storage policy that the old servers were associated with. This storage policy with ddb enabledFrom my understand, Commvault's deduplication process use a SHA-512 algorithm, which generates a unique identifier for each data block. This identifier is then matched against identifiers of previously encountered data blocks. Questions:I'm wondering whether, during the initial full backup of the new file servers, the data will undergo a process of re-baselining, or if only distinct data blocks will be selected for backup. This consideration arises from the fact that the same content and deduplication (ddb) signatures were previously backed up or generated from the old servers. Moreover, t

Hello, anyone knows why file agent push install on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS fails everytime? I have used root credentials on 2 different servers running the same OS version : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS.The job get’s stuck either at 0% or 90%. I have checked the destination and seems to do a partial install.The installed components looks like this:I have Commvault 11.0 SP24. Is Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS  supported?

We are getting the error below. It does not give the error all the time. Usually on Saturday afternoons, the jobs start running all weekend with no issues. On Monday’s, it will start failing in the afternoon and fail all week until the weekend. Of course, the DBA says that they are not doing anything. Nothing has changed on the CV side. This server has been fine up until the last month as they have started prepping the DB’s for another server. It is almost like someone starts a process and it cuts off.  Error Code: [18:182]Description: Failed with SBT library error [ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file, name="8329502_KCH_2l24upts_1_1", parms=""ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text: CreateOraObject20: Job[8329502] thread[4944]: Connection with ClOraAgent failed(180 secs) for channel=1. ]Source: server, Process: ClOraAgent

Heyho, I have a question. We are going to create a custom report, with all the Commvault reports we need. In our "old" reports we have a section with Admin Jobs History. I can't find such a report in the Command Center. Is there a report that shows me these jobs ? 

Hi,we have a subdomain with 3 Windows DC’s.If i shut down DC 1 my XenServer Cluster backup doesn’t backup.Error:Error Code: [14:212]Description: Failed to connect to indexing process from client [BACKUPWEL02] to MediaAgent [BACKUPWEL01.wels.ssishop.net*BACKUPWEL01*8400]. Error [Unable to connect to remote machine [BACKUPWEL01.wels.ssishop.net]. Please check Network Connectivity.].Source: BACKUPWEL02, Process: vsbkpIf i start my DC the backup runs fine.What can causes this problem? We want to deconfigure the DC next time.But there are another 2 DC’s in the subdomain. Backup should normaly runs fine or?RegardsDennis 

There is a requirement in our AWS environment to perform Backups of the Elasticsearch nodes.  From what I have read, CV does not actually support that and the recommendations are to use the Elasticsearch imbedded snapshots and from there we CV could backup up from the S3 buckets.“Elasticsearch has consistency requirements that span the whole cluster. You must use the built-in snapshot functionality for cluster backups.”Is this still true?  Are there other ways to perform backups using CommVault? ThanksChuck 

Hello Community, after migrate to V2 VSA for VMware with v2 migration workflow, I observed that certain VM clients are linked with the VSA agent, while other clients do not exhibit this association. though all of clients are part of the VSA backup . In the "Client Properties" section, specifically within the "Virtual Machine Properties" tab, the "Virtualization Client Name" directs to the V2 VSA pseudo client  below screenshot has vm and agent level backup but  VSA agent is not linked to it, the "Virtualization Client Name" refers to the V1 VSA pseudo client. It seems that the V2 VSA agent is exclusively visible in new

According to the documentation, you can delete a network storage pool and when you delete a network storage pool, the software automatically deletes the library associated with it and the data in the library will be lost. URL: https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/9138_deleting_network_storage_pool.htmlI got a little confused. does the software automatically deletes the library associated with it and the data in the library will be lost or do I need to retire the mount path as It contains dedup data?Anyway, what happens to the data that is in the cloud? Commvault will prune the data?     

Constantly getting the error below on two HP UX boxes. CvFwd.Log582 0001 08/09 07:54:34 ######## ######## ERROR: cvfwd_get_refresh_socket(): Failed to bind refresh socket: Can't assign requested address  Job Error:Error Code: [19:1304]Description: Failed to connect to Communications Service to register the process. They were originally both older Clients 11 SP 6. Went to upgrade to SP30 and now jobs stopped running. Check readiness runs fine but get error above and Filesystem and Oracle jobs will not run. I have a One Way from Client to Commserve setup. 

Hi Team,Just want check the configuration of Mailbox Backup. We have two media agent servers and the exchange version is 2016. Please advise the configuration of Mailbox backup jobs.Is it Outlook on those media agent servers and will use access nodes. And any disk limitation for Indexing (each media agent). - approx. 300 Mailboxes. Any license is needed for this backup from Commcell level (no archiving). Where will create the sub clients for mailbox jobs (either Exchange or media agents).

Hi,since 07/08, the auto discover no longer works for us.I see the following message in the AdMonitorMailbox.log:and in the CvRCreator.log the following error message:if (Get-Command 'Enable-OrganizationCustomization' -errorAction SilentlyContinue) { $currentErrorAction = $ErrorActionPreference; $ErrorActionPreference = 'silentlyContinue'; Enable-OrganizationCustomization; $ErrorActionPreference = $currentErrorAction }0000 0001 07/09 12:24:40 ### Exception in PowerShell script: 'System.Management.Automation.ActionPreferenceStopException: The running command stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common par

I have a question about the commvault commserve service account. Which group is required to create and use an account that is used by default as an account that is part of the administrators group, but is not part of the administrators group, but is used for the commvault service? Or do I need a local system account that belongs to the administrators group? -windows group list- 

​I was testing a database restore (DB is in full recovery) and noticed that the PITR graph wasn’t showing continuity.I checked the server and we still had an old logshipping job which was grabbing the logs and backing up to disk before commvault could get them..  We currently use database mirroring which doesn’t have any jobs associated with it. I disabled the job and ran a full database backup from Commvault,  expecting that our default 15 minute log backups would start afterwards, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.  I’ve taken a manual log backup in Commvault, but it’s still not getting picked up by the regular schedule. Any thoughts on how to resolve this?  The default client run completed at 3:01 pm and backed up every log *except* this database, which I had to do manually. Thanks- Chris​

Hello,What is the Commvault recommendation for the RMAN compression setting? Consider we have backup to deduplicated disk. And compression is enabled on commvault side also. regards,Pedro

Quick question: customer has an audit and is required to document the steps taken to secure the commcell. One thing is the media password. It can be set, it can be changed and you need of course to write it down… BUT: is there some way to report IF a media password is set or not (for the auditor). Would fit perfectly in the Security assessment tile in the CC.The only way I see is actually changing the password - if “enter old password” is left blank and new password is applied, you didn’t have one. Which is not a reportable solution.Thanks.

From NetApp, volumes are mounted on Linux OS as NFS & we are taking file level backup for this NFS volumes.Recently we upgraded NetApp ONTAP version to 9.12, after that we are getting below error.1203298 125c62 08/24 22:38:08 793760 ClBackupFile::SendHeader(9172) - getacl( /Remote-Nfs-share/efeap/data/497/upload/bilextrn-20220218 ) failed, errno 524. Unable get xattr information on file '/Remote-Nfs-share/efeap/data/497/upload/bilextrn-20220218'. unable get list of xattr, Unknown error 524 CommCell version: 11.28.78Linux OS: RHEL 8.4NFS protocol used: 4.1 & 4.2 If anyone has faced this issue & had a solution than please share.

Hi,we use Virtual Server Agent and we backup with the default sublient our VMWARE VMs.Is it possible afterwards to carry out a second copy only for an explicit VM?Or is that only possible if I create a backup before and using a separate subclient ??RegardsDennis

Hello,I start working recently with CommVault and I have a lot of alerts “No Backup for last 7 days”. Since the machines are been removed from VMWARE why they alert still appear??Any idea how stop those alerts… Thanks, Christos

Hello All,We have some legacy Storage Policies that were using an OCUM server for snapmirror relationship.This OCUM server were lost, no longer used, and were destroyed. (not reachable)I cannot delete Storage Policies because CS is waiting until all OCUM relationship in database are  cleaned.In log i notice theses lines : leStorageServicePruneResponse [  ]  Threshold to cleanup OCUM server entities from the database when OCUM server is not reachable is set to [30] days.21904 34a4  08/23 15:51:05 -------  MLMSnapInfo::handleStorageServicePruneResponse [  ]  Failed to delete SMRelationId[104], SMRelationNodeId[22], ExtRelationId[69578], ExtRelationName[CommCell-sreublc208_SP-75_Copy-245], ExtRelationNodeId[2].21904 34a4  08/23 15:51:05 -------  MLMSnapInfo::handleStorageServicePruneResponse [  ]  Failed to delete SMRelationId[103], SMRelationNodeId[21], ExtRelationId[69577], ExtRelation

We have vmware and oracle PCA VM clients. Is there any way we can setup LiveSync?Additionly linux and windows filesystem replication is also need to setup. Any document would be appreciated. 

Hi Team,We have 3 CommCells registered/uploading to cloud.commvault.com but would like to see only one (our prod) in Cloud Command as the other two are are used for test/dev and not relevant to us from reporting perspective (no one is worried about backup failures in dev but it affects the reported environment score). Any ideas?Thanks

Hi Team,Our security team is asking if we can encrypt the MS SQL native dumps in the S3 bucket when using RDS Export method for backups/restores.AWS ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/SQLServer.Procedural.Importing.html#SQLServer.Procedural.Importing.Native.Backup.ExamplesThanks!

I’ve been asked to perform a test restore of a production virtual server.  Obviously we can’t have two servers with the same name and IP address running at the same time.  Does CommVault have any documentation on how to restore a virtual server (VMware in this case), then rename and re-IP the server so it can be started up?I’ve been a client for more than 10 years and still use the Java GUI so directions using that interface would be appreciated.Ken