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i have primary storage pool is in hyperscale x cluster , and looking for best practice to configure secondary copy to cloud , commvault metallic storage ,wehat is the best practise ,  do i need to use different media agent , or can i use any of the hyperscale x node , or what is best approach  is there any other settings to be aware while configuing aux copy

Dear Experts and Gurus,This is my very 1st post as a CVLT Partner and I know how precious your help can be.I was the Territory Manager for Africa from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023.Now Unception CEO, Service & Training Partner for France and French Speaking Africa.Deploying CV 11.36 at a telco for Call Detail Records archiving.We could cover many obsolete systems.For AIX 5 we tried 11.20 and got the attached error message.We’re still looking for some solution/work around; I decided to share this humble request though.Looking forward to some help/advice/tip.Sincerely,Hicham 

Friends, We use on our systems Oracle SEHA (Standard Edition High Availability) databases.That means we have 2 servers and the databases run at one server as single databases. If the server goes down, the database fail-over to the other server. It feels like classical cluster-behavior, but it’s without cluster-software on OS level. This means that Commvault will see the database as a standard Oracle database running on node1. Then when there is a failover, Commvault will autodetect this database on node2 as a new database and the one of node1 will have failed jobs.The when the database fails back to node1, the jobs of this database on node2 will keep having failed jobs.So the database backups are spread on 2 clients, while you can see in CV that the DBID is the same. As we have 30 days retention, we can’t just cleanup the remains on node2 as for recovery we need data from both clients. We also can’t disable the backup for node2, because we don’t know when the next failover will happen

VMWare hosted Commvault Proxy Server stuns after getting errors during the Backup-copy phase Failed to mount snapshots with error [60611] [VMWare Mount snapshot failed [0xEC02ECC3:{VMwareSnapOSUtil::MountSnap(2033)/MM.60611-Mount failed: Unable to complete Sysinfo operation. The NFS server denied the mount request Operation failed, diagnostics report: Mount failed: Unable to complete Sysinfo operation.  Please see the VMkernel log file for more details.: The NFS server denied the mount request}] (MM.60611)]. Our Storage Environment is Netapp. We tried to limit the parallels backup copy operations with limited streams, but encountering the same issue. Can someone please share their experience if encountered previously.

Hello Team,Recently we created a configuration with Commvault and StoreOnce Catalytsi discovered about 3 days ago that when i trigger full backups the fail with this error Error Code: [13:244] Description: [Media write operation failure] [HP-StoreOnce media] [Error writing to the media.]There are 3 vms with this error.i did tried to backup one disk at a time as a test and it seemed to work fine, but when it comes to the c: drive backup are failing with this error.just to mention that connectivity is over the net. Has anyone had a problem like this before ? i’ll be helpfull if anyone of you can help. Kind Regrds

Hello Team, In the next year we have plan to switch access for adminsitrators from CommCell Consol to WebConsole. Becuase Commvault decided to not continue new features from JAVA console.And question what is best practise for secure Commserver server when only WebConsole will be avaialble in our infrastrcture, some jumphost from where administrators has access, or dedicated server only for WebConsole services?Maybe push the Commserve Server to DMZi?Current we have Commvault access by jumphost dedicated for a region. Regards, Michal 

Dear Connects,I have question related to Dash copy. I have a DB2 Client, Which writes Log/normal FS Incremental Backups backups for every 2 hours. In this way I will be having 12 Log/FS Backups in my primary Copy per day. I Just wanted to move only last Log/FS backups which happened in the day to my dash copy not all the backups which happened during the day. I could see the options for Full backups, not for Logs or Incremental Backups. Please suggest how to achieve this. Thanks !!    

Hi Team,When we take a laptop backup, we can preview the files in txt, pdf, docx format by clicking on them. Is it possible to disable this feature?Best Regards

The current commvault infra deployed on single server i.e. All in One(CS+MA). Now i want to change hardware and migrate both on new single hardware with configuration and backup data.

Hi Team,My customer has large oracle DB 100 TB running on AIX power server and attached with Hitachi Storage. The DBs replicating to similar setup with block level replication. They configured the FS backup on replicated server and backing up DB (100 TB) as flat file using AIX FS agent. They restore the entire data to another AIX machine, storage space came from Dell storage on weekly basis.The backup and restore handles by same seventeen-node HSX, the backup is completing by 5+ hours and restore take 25+ hours.Currently we are trying to identify other possibilities to reduce the restoration window. We had an idea to explore IntelliSnap, but I am curious to know is it possible to perform restore snapshot into Dell which was taken from Hitachi?In this scenario, still data needs to travel over the network from source to target storage. Can you suggest if you have any suggestion/input.   

We make CIFS backups from NetApp ONTAP 9.12 to Commvault using intellisnap.When Commvault starts the backup, it first creates a snapshot, then a clone volume on the snapshot, and finally a cifs share.Unfortunately, this way every file is pulled through the virus scanner, which reduces the performance a lot.Is there a way to prevent Commvault from creating the clone volume and the new share?Surely it should be possible to back up the direct path \\svm\volume\SP_2_snapshot? Then no new share would have to be created. The existing shares have a “writes-only” configuration, i.e. data is not scanned for viruses when it is read.After changing the antiviros on Netapp to writes-only the throughput is 4 times higher. Does anyone know any best practice for this? Thanks and regards,Thomas 

HI team, Do we have any solution to manage CommCell configuration (library, security,...) as code like YAML or XAML? 

To provide improved visibility for each respective DC, we would like to integrate Commvault's backup job status into our SolarWinds dashboarding."simple" integration of CV / SW Backup job total, success, warning, failure status monitored by SW SW "Widget" created to visualize on DashboardCould you please help here. 

Has anyone got a process in place where they’ve been able to update server information held within a ServiceNow table(DB) with information of last backup date and time. Basically looking for a way to ensure all servers they need a Commvault Backup are being backed up. This would include VM and Client Agent Backups. 

we have an old hp library , as part of the hardware refresh we introduced new library exagrid , we are using software deduplication , but the exagrid team recommending on having fresh backup , not to migrate the data from old library as it might affect the hardware deduplication. what is the diffrence between moving the mount path , and creating new stroage pool , creating aux copy and promoting it to primary once the it sync , which option is better if we have like 30tb baseline size ? when we do the aux copy , the secondary copy has any affect on the priamry libarary storage , or deduplication ? 

Planning to move a few clients from one CommCell to another without using CommCell migration method.I don't need the backup history of the clients.  But I need to make sure the subclient configuration, instances defined etc are kept intactThe idea is once they are on the other CommCell we will just need to repoint the clients to specific Storage policies on the new Commcells.Also if its possible to avoid reinstalling the agents on the servers.Is there any scripts/workflow available to do this tasks?

What is the risk of changing the password of the generic Commvault admin account.  We are doing this as a security contingency in our environment. Is there a risk of issues arising doing this?   Let me know of any recommendations/suggestions

Hello, we are planning of ‘Backup of File share in Azure using Commvault in On Prem Storage’. We have gone through the documentations related to Commvault in side configuration. But We are looking for documentation or any use case that can demonstrate/describe more about the connectivity between Azure to Commvault - On Prem.  Kindly Help to suggest to on this, 

Hello Community I hope someone can help?  I need to test a new VPN line our network department have activated to send data from our on prem media agent up to cloud storage for infinite copies.  Unfortunately our month end jobs are not on a schedule and copy data up, as and when it comes in.  Is there a way to copy data (jobs) from one copy to the month end copy then run an aux copy on demand so i can test the routing of this traffic? Any help or guidance would be much appreciated. thanksTonyQ 

Hi CV team,For a backup size on a file server around 60TB of data what is the best strategy from Commvault backup that will have a good RPO and RTO?Kindly consider which data protection type or a combination of them will help to attain the good RPO and RTO as the primary requirements.  

Is there a way, additional setting or something like that, that could limit the number of jobs a backup copy workflow submits at one time? Running IntelliSnap on NetApp and when all of the copies kick off at once things get overloaded. Just wondering if there is a way to limit it. I know you can when you submit it manually, but the automated ones run max number of jobs.

Hello Team, We have on-Prem Exch 2019 and we decided to move o365.Do we have any best approach to use commvault to perform migration of Exch MBX to o365.Note: We use Exch DB agent to backup on-prem and no mbx agent configured.

I have a PureStorage NAS array. At the moment it’s carrying about 200Tb of video files. By the way if you ever heard that video files do not deduplicate vary well then I can confirm that. Our video is extremely repetitive. It’s camera footage of the same scene over and over. It’s not like a movie or anything like that, it’s more like endless footage of a conveyor belt for hours and hours. So even incredibly boring video images of the same thing does not deduplicate. Our deduplication rate on this PureStore device is basically zero.But that aside, i need to back it up. It’s all NFS exports that our Linux systems access. What is Commvault’s prescribed method for this? Do we dedicate a Linux host to the task and then backup the mount point on the Linux host? Or is there a better way?

We are sending Commvault Commserve database meta data backup to commvault cloud(metallic).For Governance, we want to know in which Azure datacenter Meta data files are stored ?If there any way we can encrypt the data while sending to commvault cloud ?Can we enable password protection on the SET files in the commvault cloud ?