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Hi Team, Is there way to determine to see one of our client computer group license usage on commcell console or command center ?I checked some but didn’ t find any related. If doesnt have that would be great I think. Best Regards.

I have a slow running Auxcopy job that I wish to analyse  , this job has been running over several days. I suspended and resumed the job nad then looked at the destination media agents CvPerfLogAnalyze.logfor the performance analysis. There are no entries in this log since July lasy year, is this a bug or has logging been inadvertently disabled. CV Version 11.28.73

I get “Failed to start backups as no eligible subclients were found” when i attempt run run a Synthetic full backup schedule that contains Mongo Big Data clients. I can however run the incremental schedule with no problems. There are no blackout windows defined for the clients. I did have these clients associated with a Plan but have now disassociated these.

Hi,My client changed the port number of his SQL instance to a specific number. His reason was to hide the instance for security purposes. However, it caused Commvault failed to backup that SQL database. with the error “Failed to validate the credentials for instance...”The client told me that everything that needs to point to that instance has to has the instance name like this SQLDB01,port-number\DB01 I wonder, what could I do in Commvault to back up this SQL database?Thank you. 

How to generate the command "qlist backupfiles" for a client MS SQL Server.  Like this link, but for a MS SQL Server database https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11_sp20/article?p=45143.htmEspecially how to indicate the parameter <paths path=.…What to indicate for a SQL Server database Thanks.Gustavo

Details below, but in a nutshell, I’ve successfully set up two VSA proxies for the hotadd transport thus far, one at each of two sites.  One site, at least, needs more. I “swear” that I’ve set this proxy up the same as the others, but for the life of me, it’s not appearing on the access node list: Both the existing proxy and new one have the following software: They’re on the same subnet (sequential IPs, for that matter) and both have established communication with the Commcenter on port 8403.  The working VSA also has a session with port 8400, altho it’s working so that may be the reason why…I can successfully cvping on ports 8400 & 8403 to the commcenter and o

Does anyone have idea or any documentation regarding security hardening for Tomcat apache on windows machine , i can find it for Apache on Linux server , is there security precaution already done on the commvault package not Secured OVa package  any help please 

We have AIX client where we haven’t configured Commvault, But our server team had cloned this AIX client from another server.When I give Commvault status command on this cloned server, it displays the name of the server that is in backup.I want to uninstall Commvault from the cloned server and if I select “Remove all packages locally” will it uninstall the Commvault from the server which we are backing up? As this cloned server displays the name of the server that is in backup.I understand that remove all package locally does decoupled uninstallation where it doesn’t communicate with Commserve computer. I just want to make sure, me uninstalling package from cloned server shouldn’t affect the original one.

Hello,I installed by my customer the CDR package on the Commserve server (V 2022E) to replicate DRBACKUP directory to another windows server. It didn’t work for unknown reason, so I decided to uninstall/reinstall/repair the package. But there is no option, how to do it. So I released the license for for the CDR client and then deleted. Now I have no access to the CDR client software and its not possible to uninstall/activate/reconfigure it. Is there any possibility to reinstall/uninstall the CDR client on the Commserve server ?Thank youJiri. 

Hi,I tried to extend the File Extensions for Windows File Server Archiving but cannot find the Option in the Command Center or a Additional Setting. In the old days this was possible I guess.Can someone help?Kind Regards

A few days ago, I created a new schedule policy for our Linux file server (which has about 377 TB of data), moving it from 3x daily incremental backups to 1x daily. Since then, the incremental backup job for this particular server has been in the “Scan” stage for 19 hours. The job does not appear to be hung, as the Job Update Time is updating regularly. Is switching the schedule associated with a subclient enough to prompt a rescan of everything? Is this normal behavior? Prior to this, the incremental backups would take between 3 and 7 hours. 

0365 has issue with discovery.  Are we able to MR upgrade client 10 11.28.76 while CS/MA is 11.28.44?

We’re investigating creating a virtual disk, attaching it to our Windows file server, and encrypting it with Bitlocker to use as a “restricted data drive” in order to meet requirements for our client data agreements. While looking into how Commvault handles Bitlocker encryption, I’ve found that the drive must be unlocked to be backed up, and that file-level browse and restore may/will not be possible, given that the data is encrypted. I have two questions:If the Windows File System agent is installed, does this allow for file-level backup and restores? How does deduplication work on a Bitlocker-encrypted drive?

Hi All,We have configured Network Share backup for FSx and would like to somehow detect if permissions for the credential we use are removed from folder and files in that folder are not protected any more. What we found in testing that Full backup gives an error if it encounters a folder with no permissions but Incremental or Diff not. Any ideas?Thanks 

Hello,I have some tapes not assigned to the good commcell, do to librairie with different partition.How can I remove the tape from commcell 1 and assign this tape to commcell 2 ?RegardsAlexandre 

Hi Guys, Anyone on commserve linux? Could you tell me if you are able to deploy any workflow? I am getting ‘Error connecting to workflow Engine on the console’...on cvd.log i see: “ Unable to connect to server: 0xECCC006F:{CQISocket::Connect(358)/ErrNo.111.(Connection Refused)}Nothing recent on the WorkflowEngine.log since the installation.Not sure if this is supported for linux commserve, though i do not see it explicitly provided in the limitations of commserve documentation.

Hello!Consider the following scenario:Oracle CDB DB named CDB01.Oracle PDB DB named PDB01Oracle PDB DB named PDB02Oracle PDB DB named PDB03 Customer wants to backup PDB01 only once and keep it for 5 years. So, subclient is created pointing to PDB01 only. Full Backup is made, including logs. Consider January 1st as the backup date. PDB02 and 03 need to be backed up daily. Then, a subclient is created, including PDBs 02, 03, CDB&ROOT and PDB&SEED (excluding PDB01). That sublcient is backed up with daily fulls. With 1 day retentions. I noticed that the backups for CDB01 (excluding PDB01) which are daily made, with 1 day retention are not getting pruned. Day retention and forecast report states that the CDB01 jobs are required (LOG_ RULE) by the PDB01 job (which previously ran only once and will be kept for 5 years). How to work around this situation?PDB01 needs to be backed up only

Hi,“If I move a server to backup to a different plan, will Commvault force the next backup to Full?”

Hello. Will greatly appreciate your feedback/guidance here.  I need to enable intellisnap for subclients with the data on a netapp source. It’s vmware, and supposedly volumes that are “just volumes”: not nfs, not cifs or anything specfic to a particular application. The customer “doesn’t want NDMP in the environment”. I see in the NAS client there is, ndmp, nfs and cifs as options.  How can I configure the nas client to snap ‘generic’ or just ‘ad hoc’ volumes for lack of a better way to describe them without using the ndmp or nfs or cifs agents under the CV NAS client ? I am not seeing a way to do this. The storage policy is set up with a snap primary copy for the source and a vault/replica copy to a destination netapp. The customer doesn’t want ndmp used and doesn’t want streaming method used. Is this even possible ?Thank you! 

Hi all, i was trying to find out what might be the cause here but I am stumped… We are using netapp as HW, trying to do a ndmp intellisnap snapshot and it fails with below:Error Code: [32:392]Description: Failed to prepare snapshot. : [Failed to determine volume and path info. Error[0xEDDD0001:{CvNetAppArrayOps::determineVolumeAndPath(365)/Int.1.0x1-Connection failed. Error[Cannot log in to file server - no file server name has been set.]}]]Source: x, Process: vsbkp  I’ve checked the logs and I see that it logins to cluster and gets credentials for it..I have the cluster itself added to Commvault, also the SVM, but for some reason it fails.. 

Hi, I want to set up SAML for a customer who uses Azure AD as identity provider.SAML application has been configured in Azure AD and Identity server in CommCell too. However, logging fails. 

The drives holding our DDB are currently fluctuating between 85 and 95% full. We’re in the process of procuring larger drives to replace the ones currently in our mediaagent, but in the meantime…what happens if the drive holding our DDB hits 100% capacity?

Hello Community  Can Commvault back up the VMware SRM appliance/server? If yes, what is the process to do so? thanks

Hello community Oracle RAC :  (v19) CV: V11.28RAC has been set up with a configuration involving 2 nodes. The installation and configuration of the RAC setup in Commvault were completed yesterday. issue:  Can’t raise the "Log Threshold streams" value beyond 1. Within the Commvault log's "Backup" tab, 'number of archive Log backup stream: 3'  set for each of the nodes.I'm attempting to modify the "Log Threshold streams" value, aiming to raise it from 1 to 3. but, whenever I navigate away from the field or confirm the change by clicking "OK," the change is not retained. Instead, the value reverts back to the original setting of 1.I've reviewed the settings of other existing Oracle RAC configurations involving two nodes. In those cases, there are two archive backup streams a

Hi Team. Have a netapp a700 that has vmware datastores and cifs/nfs shares. I need to set up intellisnap and a storage policy snap primary (and a vault/replica copy of it) to do this. I have a specific storage policy for vmware and a specific storage policy for files. I’m currently working with the vmware policy first.  I’ve created the snap primary and the vault copy (with the snap primary as the source) the source and destination svm’s have been added and are confirmed correct. lifs and peering relationships set up. In a vsa subclient, I’ve enabled intellisnap and have selected some test volumes in ‘content’. The proper relationships have been configured for these between the source (a700) and destination storage (a netapp 8700) for the vault/replica. When I run a backup copy from the storage policy and also from the intellisnap enabled subclient I get the error “job will not be started. snap backup copy job does not need to run.”.  Can you kindly suggest what might be misconfigur