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ZoltanByte
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Change Exchange Online with On-Prem AD to Exchange Online with Azure AD

Hello, When we deployed Exchange Online backup couple of years back, we still used On-Prem AD. Now AD Team is migrating more and more to Azure AD, including shared mailbox delegation groups.We used these groups to provide Commvault the list of users that should have access to the archives of shared mailboxes. Given that the delegation groups now only exist in Azure AD, would there be a way to eitherconvert Exchange Online with On-Prem AD to Exchange Online with Azure AD or work with the new Azure AD objects to delegate shared mailboxes in Commvault?Our current setup is:Exchange Online with On-Prem AD End User authentication using SAML (Azure AD) as primary means of authentication. We still keep the On-Prem AD Domain Identity Server, SAML is Associated with the AD Domain. Thank you,Zoltan

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Z
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5 months ago
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jitendra shuklaBit
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Can we suspend/resume the sql backup jobs?

SQL backups do not resume upon suspending? Resuming causes SQL backups to start over or skip current database and move to next one? So should  we prefer the job to be killed if it is going to pending state repeatedly and not suspend it. This way, next schedule can kick in and run successfully.

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Chris Hollis
Vaulter
5 months ago
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DulceJRicoByte
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Alta de cliente vcloud director - Failed to connect to virtual hosts [cloud not connected to vcloud]

estoy realizando la integración del commvault & vcloud director , al finalizar la configuración del plugin , en la parte donde selecciono el hypervisor , no me muestra ninguno , por lo que estoy queriendo dar de alta en mi comserve un cliente de vcloud sin embargo no me permite ya que falla con el siguiente error :  en el parmetro vcloud director estoy colocando el hostname del vcloud sin https:// y el usuario para fines de prueba se esta intentando con todos los privilegios , el Access node es el commserve en el instale el vsa, alguien que me pueda apoyar en ver que es lo que estoy colocando mal?esta es la parte donde estoy tratando de configurar el nuevo cliente vcloud desde el commcel console  saludos Dulce J Rico

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
1 year ago
Vladan Kojanic
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Vladan KojanicByte
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How to take advantage of a modern backup solution in the COVID19 crisis and how to help employees work from home

When the pandemic hit, we were forced to quickly adapt and answer a bunch of questions we’d never asked ourselves: how can we keep in touch with our colleagues when we’re not in the office? And how can we make sure we are still efficient while working from home?It quickly became apparent that one, seemingly small issue could prove catastrophic: our information system is designed so all business documents are located on our servers and on our work computers. But this also meant that many wouldn’t be able to access these documents from home.Since the employees were already familiar with the backup system, this new opportunity only confirmed our desire to modernize the complete system and to digitize business processes.Everyone was aware that these changes were necessary, that it would help them work through the emergency, and, most importantly, that working from home wouldn’t be an insurmountable problem.A new short manual was compiled to help employees adapt to working from home, with a

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
3 years ago
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RupaVaulter
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Backing up SQL Large SQL DB with multiple data files

Hello Everyone, I am looking for some advise based on your experience as there is no standard guidelines from Commvault. My customer has Large DB  between 2 TB-6 TB and is looking for a faster recovery time.We are considering to increase the backup streams , the question is how many streams should be added ? Is it based on the size AND if the DB has multiple files? 1 stream per data file ? Number of streams for DB with single fileAny best practices to fasten the recovery time is appreciated, thank you !!

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11 months ago
Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
Onno van den BergCommvault Certified Expert
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Upgrading existing FREL appliances to FR32 might fail in case FREL appliance cannot access public Internet

This is just an informative message for customers using FREL appliances. In case you upgrade an existing FREL appliances that is based on FR30 or earlier and in case the FREL is unable to connect to the public Internet than the upgrade to FR32 will cause the FREL to go offline. During the upgrade to FR32 it tries to pull some packages from a public repo which is not possible. I have an outstanding ticket for it and the only solution now is to refresh the appliances with the FR32 FREL.I in all honesty also hope development reconsiders the current approach and implement an automatic FREL refresh function that can automatically re-deploy FREL appliances preserving the current configuration using a one-button refresh option. This is a much better approach than offering a solution that can push out FREL OS updates. 

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
7 months ago
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LucienByte
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REQ: Code Snippets or examples using CvpySDK

Just discovered the cvpysdk module. Looks very promising :-) Documentation is lacking examples, or snippets.Leaning by example is a nice way to get to know this module.Anybody willing to share examples ? Thanks in advance !

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L
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2 years ago
pmorales
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pmoralesBit
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The help of custom filters

Hello everyone,I am writing this post to talk about one of the options that has given me the most help in day-to-day administration:The job controller filtersWhen every day there are a multitude of recurring jobs from different agents, policies and clients running at all hours, it is good to have the ones we need to review located at all times. To do this, we can create custom filters by distinguishing between agents, libraries, policies, etc. Just by clicking the + button at the right on the Job Controller tab. These are some examples of what can be doneI think this option is better than the search bar as it saves you time when doing the same filters all days in the morning review. With a few clicks, you have at a glance the jobs that are Pending / Queued / Waiting, those that are using the tape library, AuxiliaryCopies and BackupCopies, etc, etc. What do you think about this option? Do you know any other tips to help with daily administration? Cheers!   

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
3 years ago
christopherlecky
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christopherleckyByte
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CommVault Hidden GEMS - Share the CommVault links you have bookmarked that made your life easier.

CommVault has the classic problem of a product with so much wide ranging utility that it is practically impossible to keep track of every aspect of the product.  That said I am sure we have all had the experience of finding a CommVault tool or website that is a game changer for your use case. Please share these links here:  VSA Feature compatibility MatrixTape Storage Matrixadditional settings database

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
1 year ago
RubeckDK
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RubeckDKByte
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DB2 user account.. How to change it on multiple servers/ instances?

Hi.. With MS SQL we can set the account used for connecting to SQL on a group level….. Any idea on how to do the same for DB2? This seems to involve some scripting which I suck at… (unless it starts with an @echo off) :-) Our DB2 team is considering creating a single DB2 user for all DB2 servers/ instances to be used by CLVT… This user will have its password changed on an often basis, but we do not want to traverse every single DB2 server /instance to change the password.. .(we’ve got quite a few) Any idea/ solution would be highly appreciated :-)  Thank you..  Kind regardsRubeck   

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
2 years ago
Mathew Ericson
Vaulter
Mathew EricsonVaulter
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Introducing Kubernetes Label Selector searches across namespacesBlog

One of the benefits of application modernization, containers, and orchestrating your data-center with Kubernetes is the ability to move to 'fully programmable' infrastructure.Now, while this makes the developers day much much easier as they provision apps / storage whenever and wherever they need it - what impact does that have on backup & recovery?Well, for Metallic (and Commvault) it is simple...Commvault is cloud-native, and we use Kubernetes Label Selectors to automatically discover applications based on the 'labels' that developers apply to their apps.Let's take a look at a standard application definition:apiVersion: v1kind: ConfigMapmetadata: name: postgres-config-demo namespace: env-prod labels: app: postgresdata: POSTGRES_DB: demopostgresdb POSTGRES_USER: demopostgresadmin POSTGRES_PASSWORD: demopostgrespwd---apiVersion: v1kind: Servicemetadata: name: postgres namespace: env-prod labels: app: postgresspec: ports: - port: 5432 name: postgres clusterIP: N

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Mathew Ericson
Vaulter
3 years ago
D
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drPhilByte
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Install the Feature Release On the Standby CommServe Host and SQL Clients

Hello,I have a question regarding this procedure (https://documentation.commvault.com/11.24/essential/105913_installing_feature_releases_on_standby_commserve_host_and_sql_clients.html).Should be the point 2 ( From the Command Center, install the feature release or the maintenance release in the Standby Commserve Host and the SQL clients in both the production and standby CommServe hosts as follows ) run completely from the standby host?

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2 years ago
L
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Logan.INBit
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Tag based backup for Azure VMs

Hi,  Is there a article available which we can go thorough and implement a Tag based backup for Azure VMs? I’ve referred the below article but it’s asking me to login which i don’t have.  Azure VM tag | Community (commvault.com)https://documentation.commvault.com/11.25/expert/31314_defining_filters_for_content.html

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L
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4 months ago
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StogsVaulter
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How can we restore files which have long path?

I was able top back up some long path files, but I’m having trouble getting them to restore. Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

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J
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3 years ago
M
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MenteeBit
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SCOM Benefits in CV

Hello Team,We have SCOM in our environment so wanted to understand if any additional benefits I can expect if we integrate it with CV.Because CommVault is already good for Alerts/Reports. 

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8 months ago
V
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VincentMByte
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Backing up Nutanix files

Hi looking for some advice on Backing up Nutanix files.Nutanix ver 5.20.230 TB of capacityCommvault hyperscale 3 node cluster10 GB ethernet connectivity.  CIFS And NFS enabled. Documentation states the backups run through Access nodes and at aminimum 1 access node per protocol. Is there any integration with intellisnap for Nutanix files? I did not see this covered in the documentation, but maybe not looking in the right place.        

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J
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2 years ago
S
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stefano.ebauBit
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Recover a backup after a Disaster

Hi All,in the infrastructure that I manage, I have a Commserve and a Media Agent on premise (cmvCServe and cmvMA01) and another MA (cmvMA02). Due to cost issues, only the Commserve is directly replicated on a remote infrastructure dedicated to any Disaster Recovery.A second MA (cmvMA02) is active on a DR infrastructure, but not actually used.Both MA are connected to two different S3 libraries in the cloud where the respective DDB is also present.In the event of a disaster, can I recover the backups carried out by the on-prem MA by configuring the share of the library located on the first MA to be reached and used throught the second MA, positioned in the DR environment?Is this a viable configuration?Thanks in advance for your answers!Best Regards

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S
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5 months ago
L
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LizYBit
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SAP Oracle BR'Tools backup in Azure

We currently have a 10TB SAP Oracle DB on-prem, BR-Tools backup to a local disk is taking 4 hours.How to achieve the same backup completion time for the same DB in a Azure resource group to another resource group? 

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L
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1 year ago
A
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ARVVIByte
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Database backup

Hi Team,               I am getting the below error while taking a IntelliSnap backup, can anyone suggest Description: SMIS Provider connection timeout. Please make sure 1) SMIS provider software has been installed. 2) Correct SMIS provider name has been entered using Array Management. : [Snapshot::SnapDelete: Connection to CIMOM failed]

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A
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5 months ago
K
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Kish007Bit
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Deployment of commvault on AWS

Hi All ExpertsDo we have ant link or Document to understand Pre requisites / Best Practice's and steps to onboard commvault on aws 

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
5 months ago
T
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TonyQByte
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Enable Scheduler Alert when its disabled

Hello Community I’m afraid my knowledge on system alerts for Commvault isn’t great and I need to know how to set up an alert if the Enable Scheduler has been disabled as per below.  Any advide or guidance on it would be great. thanks in advanceTonyQ 

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K
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11 months ago
J
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jaleefByte
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If an application database is already configured to be backed up by an application agent, it will not be backed up using the application-aware VM group.

can some one please help me to understand the below point  If an application database (oracle ,sql) is already configured to be backed up by an application agent, it will not be backed up using the application-aware VM group. if i have application aware backup  cant  we backup it application level?if i was taking vm backup before like  incremental in all dayand database level in hours and if am planning to change it to application aware backup how can i achieve that 

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J
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1 year ago
A
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ADN GMBHByte
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Commvault Exchange mailbox Restore - List of failed Messages/Objects.

Hi,we are currently restoring a few mailboxes from our users. Most of Messages are getting restored and is working fine, but we get a few failed/skipped Messages.The normal Report in the Commcell Console doesn’t list them either, (if we select “Failed Items”) and in the Command Center Report we couldn’t find any option as well.Is there any special Report that will give us more details? Even the CVMailRestore.log doesn’t tell us, that these failed/skipped messages are? kind regardsJoerg

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A
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5 months ago
Base64
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Base64Byte
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Customize standard repots

Hello, I wanted to know if I can customize the default reports from Commvault. As an example the fall Behind Secondary Copies. I find "10 days for critical" too much and would like to customize these benchmarks 

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Mike Struening
Vaulter
1 year ago
R
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RlpCVVntBit
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Maintenance Release

What’s the best practice in applying / installing hotfix?

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Vaulter
3 months ago

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