Storage and Deduplication

Hi Team, I would like to understand, exactly what the “Air Gap Protection” do?Is it just MRR storage target which can store backup copies, or will it have any core Air gap capabilities like restrict/isolate the access to stored data?  

Hi guys,I need support for a customized report that a client needs to monitor his tape drives, he uses a quantum and needs to know at the end of the month how many hours each drive was actually in use.

Dear Team, We have around 20 LTO9 tapes available to take backup weekly and monthly secondary copy. Now I need to assign each media to dedicated media group once loaded into the tape library not for manually move.I gone through commvault documents says that we have an options to create Barcode patterns with the media to assign automatically to the particular media pool or media group. My questions, we have Weekly and Monthly media pool and AFK001L9, AFK002L9, AFK003L9, AFK004L9, AFK005L9. I need to assign AFK001L9, AFK002L9 media to Weekly pool and AFK003L9, AFK004L9, AFK005L9 medias to Monthly pool.   Barcode pattern name and Barcode pattern option???? Could you please help to fix the issue. Thanks. Regards,ManiD 

Hello everyone,We are in the process of migrating several machines to Azure. Could anyone assist me in creating a script that changes/update the storage policy from A to B for all the affected servers? All servers have an FS agent installed.Thank you in advance for your help.

We have moved a tape drive from one media server to another media server. When configuring the tape drive in the commvault, do we have to deconfigure the old tape drive configuration in the commvault. If so does the assigned tapes on the old media servers loose the data?

Hi CommunityI hope someone can help with below issue.I am trying to create a ddb partition on a Linux media agent with encrypted disk.While creating the partition I get the error like when the 10% free is not available.It looks like the labelling process is not handling the encrypted volume name well. Is this a known issue and is there a workaround for this?IdxLabelUtil::main() - Started with parameters: [-op checkminvgspace -ict 2 -dst /ddb/psql_prod_ddb_p1 -cn xxxxxxxxxxx -vm Instance001]IdxLabelUtil::main() - Performing operation: [CHECKMINVGSPACE].IdxLabelUtil::ProcessMinVGSpace() - Checking Free Extents for DDB Snap Capability for path[/ddb/psql_prod_ddb_p1].IdxLabelUtil::checkMinVGSpace() - User given path = /ddb/psql_prod_ddb_p1IdxLabelUtil::checkMinVGSpace() - Parent = /ddbIdxLabelUtil::checkMinVGSpace() - Mount Point found[/ddb] for path[/ddb/psql_prod_ddb_p1].IdxLabelUtil::checkMinVGSpace() - Device found[/dev/mapper/ee29651c-6473-4902-8011-bc00ebe3b612].CvProcess::system() -

Hello, I’d like to use a SAN data server to present the several LUNs, coming from SAN storage, to two different MediaAgent.The question is: on SAN data server, have I to use LVM, to create volume group, logical volume and lhe filesystem, to group these LUNs and then share the mount path to the Media Agents?If so, I think there is a filesystem size limit that cannot be exceeded for a single volume and consequently the corresponding mount path configured on the SAN data server and shared to the Media Agents.Another question: could I configure one of the two media agents as a san data server?Thanks and regards

Hello All, Can the backup target of Netapp FAS Storage be managed by two Commcell IDs? , is this a support model of Commvault IntelliSnap through AIQUM?  Thank you,Sukanksha

The goal on our Linux file server is to replace the current /project1/ directory with new /project1/ directory, all the same data, but the data stored on different back-end storage. All of this data is backed up by Commvault with the Linux File Server Agent but not doing block level backups.However, when doing a test, we discovered that Commvault will back up the data again after its moved back to the new /project1/test/ directory, even though the data is exactly the same (same file sizes, modified dates, etc).I populated a folder on the file server /project1/test and created a Commvault sub-client for only that directory. I ran a manual full backup, which backed up 344MB of data.Then I ran the following commands (as root on the linux file server)rsync -avHxAPS /project1/test/ ~user/temp/Removed /project1/test/ using:rm -fr /project1/test/Synced the data back from /temp/rsync -avHxAPS ~user/temp/ /project1/test/Reinitialize the xfs project quota:xfs_quota -x -c 'project -s test' /proje

Hello,Planning to add a new partiotion to an exiting DDB. I’ve went through the documention and have a doubt on the below.The addtional 0.5MB of data will be added only to the magnetic disk the holds the DDB or will it be also added to the Disk library mount paths ? “After running the Backup1, you add Partition2 and run Backup2 of the same 1 MB of data. After the second backup, 4 signatures of 128 KB size will be added to Partition2 (even though the same signatures exists in the original store) and for the other 4 signatures only the reference will be added in the original store (as the signatures already exists). The magnetic disk will have 1.5 MB of data (1 MB from the first Backup + 500 KB from Partition2 from Backup2).On running data aging, if Backup1 is aged, then from the first partition the first 4 signatures will be aged and also 500 KB of data will be pruned from the magnetic disk.”https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/12455_configuring_additional_partitions_for_ded

Hi all, At a customer, we are using Combined Storage Tiers:CV 11.28 AWS Deep Glacier / Standard-Infrequent Access We have a few questions on this:When we do a restore, the Recall workflow kicks in. We see that it initiates the Recall and then waits for 13 hours before checking the Recall Success. Why is it only checking after 13 hours? The data might be available sooner, so it would make sense checking earlier.   Which Recall type is used by default (with CV 11.28), is it Standard or Bulk? Thanks in advance!

Hi Team, The Watermark or Threshold that triggers the space reclamation is actually dependent on the low watermark threshold set at the Library Properties. As per the Commvault documentation, the Auto Space reclamation job is applicable for Disk. How we can enable it for Cloud Library?  

Hi,We will migrate a tape library from one commcell to an another existing one. But we want to know if it’s possible to keep the data already existing on the tapes and to restore data from the tape through the new commcell?

Hello Commvault,I try to find a workaround in order to reduce a DDB Q&I times.The DDB is currently 238 TB, based in Shared partitions (Azure Blob Storage).Average Q&I times was 9,000ms (in Premium SSD (P15) in Azure VM, single Drive. After split “DDB paths” (to separate Disks) and add another 2 X SSD (for DDB partitions), currently average Q&I times was reduced to 5,200ms. Is there any way to succeed better performance?Maybe to Seal the DDB ?

Hello,I have SAP for Oracle backup on single tape, I need to keep it for years. What will happen if I export this tape and delete all related objects in Commvault (Job and storage policy). Will it be possible to load tape back to tape library and import/restore backup form this tape?

HelloI´m trying to chase down what is actually consuming the storage in our S3 Cloud library(which has increased in an alarming rate the last week).Size On media is 354Tb, which is more or less exactly what is reported as used in the Netapp Storage array S3 bucket, no issue there.However, Total Data written is only 116TB I found this answer to what Size on Media actually meansSize on media is the total volume of all backup data, plus the index data and meta data for all the jobs on that media It sound crazy that index and metadata should increase storage with 100%Is it because we are using a cloud library? 

Hello all,Considering that currently Commvault basically supports only infinity retention for o365 backup services, what will be the preferred / cost optimized choice of blob tier? As Disk Storage in a Azure MediaAgent.Hot, Cool or Cold?  Please for your feedback, thoughts!Best regards,Nikos

After changing tape librariy, the aux copy job always asks me for the previous media written, can someone help me?

Hi Team, We are running our current environment is Commvault V11 SP32 and we are in the process of deploying the HPE MSL3040 Scalable Base Module (upto 3 HH Drive) for tape out copy and physical server having Allma linux 8 Operating System. Whether OS will support tape library and Commvault Media agent software.  Regards,ManiD

Hello team,In v11.32 during enabling WORM storage lock (while Compliance lock was already enabled), I’m getting the following error:Reducing the basic or extended retention of a worm storage policy copy is not allowed.Although I keep the same retention (30 days).So, it’s mandatory to enable WORM storage lock at the same time with Compliance lock in order to apply? Please for your feedback,Nikos

Hello all-I’m trying to find a report that will output something that I think is super basic:  list my 5 storage policies, and tell me how much space each one is using.  I already know about the Client Storage Utilization by Storage Policy Copy report, but it shows me the client backup sizes within each policy and I don’t see how to total it very easily or customize it to see what I want. If that report can do it, can someone point me in the right direction to tweak it so I can get the info I’m trying to pull?  Or if someone knows of an easier way, that would be great.  I’ve checked the built-in reports in the console, command center and store.Thanks! 

I need to set up cloud backup retention according to the following criteria- the last 7 daily backups- the last 5 weekly backups- the last 5 monthly backups (end of month)- the last 2 yearly backups (year end)Is it OK the way I think it is set? I kindly ask for your assistance.Thanks a lotCarmine

We wanted to move backups of clients with disk library from one commserve to another and would like to continue the backups to the same disk library on new commserve. How can we achieve this?

Looking for assistance on configuring new DELLTape Library

Hello,we got several LTO4 Tapes from a customer to recover files from it. The IT-Department doesn’t exist anymore and the contact person has no clue about anything. We successful imaged 2 Tapes an in the first sector we saw “CommVault Media Label… CommVault Systems Galaxy” Entrys. What brings me here. ;-)How can we restore files from the tapes, what do we need. Thanks in advance.