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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

Hi All,Is it possible to configure different subclients from the same physical client and assign these subclients to different tenant (company)? If so, what configuration should be set up?Thank you!Regards,Luc

How does the Software Remote Installation process works. What technology is used, what services or ports needs to be allowed on client.

   We have been a very long time Intellisnap VMware ESX users.   Sounds like we may be moving to Hyper-V.   I am just wondering if any other folks have already run into this?  How did you backups speeds turn out?  I am curious what we may be in for with our backup windows.   We currently get some really good throughput with the VMware backups.  500 GB/hr to 2,000 GB.hr.  Any care to share your Hyper-V backup speeds?Thank you

Scheduled a Microsoft SQL restore to a different server but file name date does not updateWe have a scheduled SQL restore job that runs every night, however the .bak file date is not updating with the most current date, just want to know if that is normal ?the folder name we are restoring to is folder.bakPlease see screenshots.  screenshot of restored files.  

Hi,Just want check which one is easy to upgrade / new on Commserve with new MA and dedup hardware.Currently we have Commvault version 11.20 with FC based disk library and using Commvault deduplication with compression. Now planning to hardware refresh with new media agent and dedup appliance.Which option is good  to proceed for this implementation.Option 1:Will go to upgrade latest commserve and then will go to new dedup appliance storage pool with new storage policies then will associate to sub clients to new policies.The new storage policies are disabling dedup and compression from commvault and will be enabled from hardware appliance end.And will move backup data from old disk library to new disk library.Option 2:Shall we go for new Commserve server and will install new commcell and then will restore to latest commserve DB.If we are going to new commserve, Is it will get license from commvault. Please advise.

Hi Community,when I read the documentation for best practices for SMTP journaling, i found that it is recommended to use one journal  contact for not duplicating the journal reports, also it is recommended to have 2 ContentStore Mail Server (SMTP)  for high availability and load balancing.so is that means that i have to create 2 SMTPs with 1 common journal contact?if no, how commvault will connect the 2 SMTPs together?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone is using the Calendar Backup Job Summary Report from Commcell and do some basic success rate calculating based on this?I think I’m able to use the raw Excel file and calculate the amount of successful and failed jobs using come sumproduct and countifs in Excel but if someone already has done this I’m interested on how it’s done.And there’s a small issue when changing storage policy for a server. Then there will be multiple row in the spreadsheet and I’m not Excel savvy enough to try and combine and find the unique servers and at the same time count the backups on multiple row.So any advise or tips is much appreciated.

Hello Community,I have an MSP environment with about 30 media agents. Some media agents are installed on customer site and it is not very easy to ask them to perform an upgrade.Target version is  11.32the infra is compsed ofCommserve VM (MSP site) is on version 11.28.117, Windows 2019,SQL 2016WebServer VM  (MSP site internet facing) is on version 11.28.56, Windows 2019media agents are used as primary or secondary depending of the storage policy/customerma1 (customer site) Windows 2019, 11.28.53ma2 (customer site) Windows 2012 R2, 11.28.53ma3 (customer site) Windows 2012 R2, 11.28.53ma4 (customer site) Windows 2012 R2, 11.28.53ma5 (customer site) Windows 2012 R2, 11.28.111secondary media agents that receive auxiliary copies from the customers through VPN are hosted at MSP site A secondary MA can receive aux copy from different customersmsp_ma1 (MSP site) Windows 2012 R2, 11.28.111msp_ma2 (MSP site) Windows 2012 R2, 11.28.117msp_ma3 (MSP site) Windows 2012 R2, 11.28.53msp_ma3 (MSP site)

Where we work, the physical disk(s) must be sanitized. Currently, there is no good way to only sanitize a specific data location on any disk in a local Commvault disk library. Yes, there’s the CVDisk Eraser Tool, but that is only good for a whole volume or mount point. There are tools like BCWipe, but for that to target a specific data location - you need to know the data’s location. Commvault doesn’t easily give up where it stores data for say, a single laptop agent’s backups. When I inquired about this with support, they said it would be non-trivial to determine. Plus then even if you did, there’s no way to gracefully wipe only the folder/data locations without dirtying the database(s), since you’d have the leave the folders there to eradicate with your sanitization tool *before* trying to remove it from the command center/java console. I suggested a CMR to dev, that would offer the ability to sanitize a single laptop agent’s specific data location(s), on deletion, with something lik

What 1 Touch ISO supports Windows 11 recovery?

Hello ALL,I am reaching out to seek clarification regarding the visibility of tape labels in the restore job logs. Recently, we restored critical data from tape storage, but during my audit review, I noticed that the tape label was not visible in the restore job log.Could you please advise on where we can locate the tape name or label in the restore log? Any guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Dear all,the customer asked me to backup his endpoint offline , Is there a way to do that?

Hello expertsNeed to restore deleted data, and user have no clue about the size of data, in CommVault as you know we can see the size of individual files, but not folders, for folders and sub-folders it shows 0 Bytes.So is there anyway to find that before we actually hit the restore and filled up any space. 

Hello,I have deploy a dedicated Command center on RHEL 8.8 in 11.34 version.i tried to configure a CA trusted certificate on the server.i get error message when trying to connect to the URL with wget -p command :: 443... failed: Connection refused.i have added a pfx files (certificate size is 2048 and set the password  + PKCS12 in the server.xml.restart the tomcat service.thanks in advance for your help.Regards,  

HelloWe have a cluster with 1 primary and 3 secondary servers, dump backup works from everyone but log backups only work on the primary. What is the best practice for this situation?And if you can backup the logs only from the primary how will it work when the primary failovers?

     Error Code: [18:183]Description: Failed with Oracle DB/RMAN error [RMAN-03002: failure of delete command at mm/dd/yyyy 14:35:15 RMAN-06091: no channel allocated for maintenance (of an appropriate type) ]Source: <client name>, Process: ClOraAgent Ora DBA gave the following lines to be added to script, but still it not helped allocate channel for maintenance type 'SBT_TAPE';allocate channel for maintenance type disk;Other instance archive log from other hosts are using same schedule where the scripts are placed in, they running fine. but this instance

Hello,it is possible to deploy a Command center in Windows OS into a Linux Commserve on rhel ?because i need SSO for customer’s authentication. Kind regards, Christophe

Error Code: [17:176]Description: Failed to create VSS snapshot required to run system state backup. System state backup is skipped. VSS error [[0x80042306 2147754758] The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event logs for more information.]. Please refer VSS Event logs for more details.Source: <client name>, Process: clBackupI was asked by Server admin to answer/action following, which doesn’t make sense to me because I had have never to do this manually in past to stop VSS related error on windows file system backup.Even on the host having this issue started recently, but prior that there was no such error, The host in question runs win file system and sql level backup Question from System admin:“We need to know if that server is doing SQL backups with CommVault, this is to determine if VSS is trying to backup SQL (i.e. if CommVault backs up SQL, it should exclude SQL from the default Windows subclient. If this is not excluced, then CommVault will

Hello community,We are looking for a 2nd copy of our Azure workloads.According to this approach you can archive that via a GRS blob storage intend of auxiliary copy. https://documentation.commvault.com/11.20/configuring_replication_for_cloud_storage.htmlSo, let’s assume that we have MA1, primary backup server for Azure workloads in Availability Zone 1, with a GRS blob storage as primary cloud storage and a MA2 in Availability Zone 2 (for 2nd copy also with same GRS blob storage).In this scenario, how we will maintain the DDB to MA2 ? Or this approach is only for restore operations (in case of incident MA1)?Please for your feedback,Nikos

Hello Community,Lets discus about 2nd (auxiliary) copy in a Cloud Library.In case that need to have a 2nd (auxiliary) copy of on-prem Disk Library to a Cloud Provider (Azure), we have 2 options:Deploy a new MA to Azure, with its own DDB for these aux copies operations. Just configure the blob storage (also with new DDB) to an existing on-prem MA and start aux copies (without any additional MA deployment in Azure).Please for your feedback about these 2 approaches.With option 2, seems that you are going to save some cost from Azure MA VM, but what about optimization, performance and resource utilization?Please for your thoughts!Best regards,Nikos

If you have deduplication-enabled Storage Policies that are using an AWS S3 Infrequent Access tier or an Azure Cool Access tier (either directly, or via Combined Storage Tier configuration), there is potentially an opportunity to optimize your cloud storage costs by reviewing the associated DDB backup configuration.Noting that AWS Infrequent Access Tiers and Azure Cool Storage Tiers have a 30-day minimum storage duration, and that DDB backups are generally performed daily but only retained for 0 Days / 1 Cycle, it is more cost-effective to use S3 Standard / Azure Hot Access tiers for those DDB Backups.For example:100GB (DDB Backup) x $0.023 (S3) x 2 (accounting for once-daily data aging) = $4.60 per Month.100GB (DDB Backup) x $0.0125 (S3IA) x 30 Day Minimum Storage Duration = $37.50 per Month. For smaller environments it may not be worth the effort to change anything, but with our DDB Backups to S3IA exceeding 1.5TB, we are looking at an annual cost reduction of ~$6000.

Hello Experts, Our client cant communicate directly with Commcell. They go through media servers. As and when a new backup request comes, we open bidirectional communication between client and media servers for port 8400 to 8403. we would like to understand that when Backup schedule will kick off, which port will trigger to start the communication with media server and which port will help with data transfer. We would also like to know that once the data transfer is started, what will happen to the port which was responsible for data communication between client and MA.

AWS Cross account backup configuration.senario: having 3 AWS accounts to backup resources from Account A to a media agent in Account B that has backup bucket in account C ( account B & C are fine that I do backup account B resources as MA /AN/Proxy is here) , Account B IAM user is allowed to access resporces from Account A while configuring the commvault client for Account A backup can list the ressources from account B only though the account B user allowed to access account A , any Idea is that still viable option and supported ? ThanksSK   

Dear friends,🌟I am experiencing an error during a restoration of an Oracle database out of place and would greatly appreciate your help in resolving it. Below are the details of the error: Error code: [18:183]Error Description: ⚠️Failed with Oracle DB/RMAN error [RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 06/27/2024 15:56:41 ORA-19504: failed to create file "+FRA" ORA-17502: ksfdcre:4 Failed to create file +FRA ORA-15001: diskgroup "FRA" does not exist or is not mounted ORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be created ORA-15001: diskgroup "FRA" does not exist or is not mounted ORA-19600: input file is control file (+DGDATA/CTLUPFPRD/CONTROLFILE/current.62580.1172764597) ORA-19601: output file is control file (+FRA)]Source: btasdesdbora01,  Process: ClOraAgent I would greatly appreciate your guidance and support in resolving this issue. 🙏Thank you very much for your attention and help. 🤝Kind regards,😁✌🏼