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gnussbaumBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Can't lower reserve space in Commcell console

Hi, I came into work and noticed dozens of jobs in a waiting state due to the mount path not having enough free space.  I am aware that we need to add more storage and we are going to, but in the interim I tried lowering the reserve space from 6TB to 2TB.so that the jobs can finish, and I also see what can be cleared.  It’s not letting me change it.  It will only go to 5960 GB.  I currently have a ticket in with CV. 221017-401. Is there a way to fix this?

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
7 months ago
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Rahul MainiByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Disable seal deduplication

Can anyone help that how to disable seal deduplication?

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Vaulter
5 months ago
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RobsterFineBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

HyperScale Migration using Auxiliary copy to Azure / Metallic storage - DDB block size

Hi,I’m working on a project where a large Hyperscale environment needs to be migrated to Azure.  Looking at using either Azure storage or Metallic recovery reserve and/or possibly a mix of the two. There’s short term 30 days as well as LTR 5 to 7 years so will use Hot / Cool tiers (possibly combined storage tiers if Metallic not used)HS is setup using the default DDB block size 128KB. In an ideal world - one could just setup a secondary copy for the cloud storage (either Metallic or Azure) and kick off the Aux copy to cloud, just let it run to get the data over in to Azure then eventually promote it to primary copy… however…As the cloud storage will then be used as a primary copy - ideally, we want to configure it with 512KB DDB block size.   Media agents will be setup in Azure as they will eventually become the production MA’s once things get cut over.  Some key questions on the above:copying between storage policies with different DDB block sizes – how will this affect overall dedupl

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Jos Meijer
Commvault Certified Expert
3 months ago
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chris_ahnByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Cloud Storage error

Aux Copy was going well, but suddenly it didn't work Hitachi storage status ok. Any advice please   

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Onno van den Berg
Commvault Certified Expert
11 months ago
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UpenBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Commvault are aware of any issues with routing Commvault Traffic through the local internet in China.

Hello All, We have configured the Aux copy with AWS cloud storage library destination, we are facing Auxcopy slowness issue only for China location. Other locations are working fine. (US & UK).Any one facing same issue in China location…? Commvault are aware of any issues with routing Commvault Traffic through the local internet in China. 

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Damian Andre
Vaulter
1 year ago
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JSNOPUDBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Settings for Archiver data Retention

I am attempting to replicate an existing Storage Policy with some differences associated with Media Agents for the copies. There is a existing setting called Archiver data Retention with a setting of 63 days for certain copies, but looking at the Copy properties for Retention, I am unable to find that setting.As a result, in my replicated Storage Policy, the default Archiver data Retention value is Infinite.Do you know how to set the settings for  Archiver data Retention?  

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J
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2 months ago
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Paul HutchingsByte
posted in Storage and Deduplication

New physical server & optimising storage flexibility?

I have a new Dell Poweredge R750 sitting in a box with SSD RAID BOSS and 12x18TB NL-SAS on a H755 RAID controller.It's going to be running Windows Server 2019 or 2022 and will be a backup server holding both Commvault and Veeam data.The server will boot off the SSD BOSS and the NL-SAS is purely backup storage.At a PERC level I expect I'll go with RAID6.At a the Windows level I'm not clear whether there are IO benefits splitting it out into lots of small (5-10TB) volumes (which are all sitting on the same physical RAID) or whether to keep it simple and have one or two large volumes and segment data using folders.The current disk library is sitting on a pair of older Windows Poweredges with around 12x4TB mount paths which need migrating to the new hardware.Unless there’s a real benefit I’d sooner have a single large flexible Windows volume with 12 subfolders for each mount path than be messing around creating 12x volumes.I presume there is no way to consolidate down the number of mount p

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P
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4 months ago
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DaveKByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Auxcopy job, one stream

I have an Auxcopy Source (HYperscale-X), destination (Hy7perscale). I have max numbers of readers set and multiple mount paths set on the Copy. I have thousands of jobs in the Auxcopy, yet only one stream gets allocated. What am I missing?

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Vaulter
8 months ago
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DaBackupsByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Is network topology necessary if firewalls are not in place

We have an offsite facility we send our aux copies to for DR purposes. PB’s of data for CommVault to go through .  We do not have a firewall, and port 8400 can reach the offsite ok.  Some of us in house think using the network topology to create a persistent connection and then open 8 routes will speed up the process over letting Commvault handle the traffic automatically. Does anyone have any insight into which process is better to use for us? or more technical how the network routes work or a recommended setup?

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
1 year ago
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Konstantin UBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Backup to cloud

Dear colleagues,We have been using CommVault Simpana for many years. And currently we are looking for a solution how we can backup our data to cloud with Simpana. I mean that target of backup will be AWS, Azure or any others cloud providers. I found in the documentation that backup to cloud is possible for CommServer DR, but what about production data?Note: We are looking options for BACKUP to CLOUD (where backup destination is CLOUD) but NOT backup of the CLOUD (where CLOUD is backup source)!I would appreciate any information on this topic.Thanks!

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K
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1 year ago
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kumaraBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Disk storage occupied

Hi Team,As per the snapshot, total data written 1.33 TB  out of 10TB . But free space showing me 46 GB only.The same like showing me other mount points. But when check the physical size it is occupied around 10 TB only. Please help me on this.

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Zubair Ahmed Sharief
Vaulter
1 month ago
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AlexzyByte
posted in Storage and Deduplication

Error restoring DDB Store files. Restore job(s) [] encountered one or more errors.

Error restoring DDB Store files. Restore job(s) [] encountered one or more errors.2 please help help ugent…..

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
1 year ago
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GordABit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Settings for WInSCP and HyperscaleX

Hi, for connecting to a HyperscaleX appliance to drop and pickup files, are there any tweak settings?I’ve been toggling between \bin\bash and default for shell and using SCP/22 and authentication works but the session never gets going. ThanksG

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G
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27 days ago
K
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kumaraBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

DDB threshold reached max limit

Hi Team,The DDB partition Q&I time is very high post changed the DDB partition location. I have moved the DDB partition recently from one drive to another due to space was full.As per storage team, we are using Lun assigned NLSAS_SSD drives on our MA. Now all the backups are running very slow. I want to reduce the Q&I time or else want to run the DDB on single (T:\ DDB) partition. because the backups are running fine using that DDB(when i was moved the DDB that time it was used another partition) Please suggest on this.I have raised a case to vendor, they are suggesting to run the ConvertDDBToV5 workflow job and waiting for the steps and DT. 

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Vaulter
1 month ago
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NisBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

backup to disk and cloud

Hello everyone,i want to ask about commvault backup, can commvault backup to disk and cloud at the same time? thanks,Nis 

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MichaelCapon
Vaulter
1 year ago
Mohit Chordia
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Mohit ChordiaByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Disk Library Mount path space usage monitoring

HI Team,Is there any API or report using which we can monitor individual library mount paths ?CV alerts are for complete library but i need to configure an alert specific to mount paths( coming from different media agents or servers ) part of same disk library. We receive below alerts when one or few of the mount paths of library met reserved space .Failure Reason: Insufficient disk space. Available mount paths are not enabled for write or have met reserved space limit. Enable/add more mount paths or add more disk space to existing mount paths. Please check mount paths on the library Need to configure alerts on mount path level so that we can disable the mount paths in advance .Regards, Mohit  

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Mohit Chordia
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3 months ago
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arnaudBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Netapp SM-BC support with intellsinap

Hi all,we are implementing a new netapp infrastructure. This infrastructure will be composed by 2 clusters with SM-BC -- Snapmirror Business ContinuityWe will use it to present luns on vmwareI don’t find any information about the compatibility with intellisnap.Any Idea ?Thanks a lot

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A
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27 days ago
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Srikanth KByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

AUX copy jobs failing

Error Code: [13:138] Description: Error occurred while processing chunk [79458260] in media [V_4661435], at the time of error in library [DiskLib_ca-VMAPool-1] and mount path [[ca-vma1] \\xxxxip\cvlt_maglib_01], for storage policy [Plan-ca-vma-VM-90Local-365Cloud] copy [2-DASH-privateStore] MediaAgent [ca-vma1]: Backup Job [8531530]. Cannot impersonate user. User credentials provided for disk mount path access may be incorrect. Source: ca-vma1, Process: CVJobReplicatorODS  Failed to Copy or verify Chunk [79458260] in media [CV_MAGNETIC], Storage Policy [Plan-ca-vma-VM-90Local-365Cloud], Copy [Primary], Host [ca-vma1.green.xxx], Path [\\xxxxip\cvlt_maglib_01\CWKROQ_03.16.2023_08.40\CV_MAGNETIC\V_4661435], File Number [1], Backup Jobs [ 8531530]. Cannot impersonate user. User credentials provided for disk mount path access may be incorrect. Cannot impersonate user. User credentials provided for disk mount path access may be incorrect. Source: ca-vma1, Process: CVJobReplicatorODS    

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S
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1 month ago
R
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RobsterFineBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Planning / sizing for cloud storage tiers and documentation question

Hi,our documentation around combined storage tiers in cloud could be a bit misleading around sizing for Warm and archive tier storage requirements.See in red below.what’s the ideal ratio to size? (or do we need to just go 10% on warm tier to be safe?)https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/139246_combined_storage_tier.html BackupsCommvaults combined storage tiers works by placing Commvault metadata used in both deduplication and non-deduplicated backups in the warmer or frequent access tiers. This allows you to perform a simple Browse and Restore of the archival data, without the delay of a cloud archive storage recall.As a result, more than 90% of the backup data gets stored in the Archive tier, while only up to 10% of the data is stored in the warmer tiers. Deduplicated and non-deduplicated data is supported in Commvault combined storage tiers. For deduplicated data, the backup indexes and deduplication metadata is stored in the warmer tier. For non-deduplicated data, th

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Vaulter
3 months ago
E
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Eduardo BragaByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Move sealed DDB

Can I move a partition from a SEALED DDB to the same partition path where the active DDB is located? I just sealed the database before move the partition.   

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
10 months ago
J
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justin000Bit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Space reclamation / orphan data cleaning against cloud storage library

Hi all,Wondering if by chance anyone has experience running DDB space reclamation with orphan data cleanup against a cloud library. We have a cloud library in Azure cool tier which we expect may have some data that was not pruned successfully, thus increasing our storage consumption in Azure. The deduplication database for this data lives on local storage.We’d love to run a space reclamation with orphan data cleanup against this cloud library, but we’re concerned about the possible cost of storage transactions against the Azure cool library.Has anyone performed this operation before and observed the related cloud storage costs? For reference, we have just under 100 million blobs and a total of about 400TB of storage utilization in Azure. Many thanks for any input folks may have!

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J
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25 days ago
G
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Glenn NgobeniBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Failed to start controller on Media Agent

Hi,Please assist.DDB Reconstruction is inprogress, the job is in “add records” phase but gets stuck on “failed to start controller on media agent.Services are running on both source media agent and the problematic media some other jobs are usng the same media agent Commserve is 11.25.14I thank you. RegardsGlenn

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G
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1 year ago
S
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shailu89Byte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Exchange mailbox restore from copy precedence

Hello,I am on commvault v11 SP20 trying to restore exchange mailbox items by changing copy precedence or using a disk library from aux copy (not primary) Restore runs fine but always picks up media agent associated with primary copy.Tried from commcell console and command center (no option to change copy precedence in command center for exchange mailbox) Is it expected behavior or I am doing something wrong here?

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Mike Struening RETIRED
Vaulter
1 year ago
J
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Juanpa25Bit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Tape library is not displayed correctly

Tape library is not displayed correctly, only the drives are seen individuallyWhat will be the problem?

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M
Vaulter
4 months ago
K
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Kimmo_SSBByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

How to find how much physical space a storage policy use?

I have a media server containing several storage policies. Now I need to move one of the policies and files to a new media server. How do I find how much physical storages space the storage policy uses on the disks of the media server?And is this size the same it will use on the new server when moved (create new primary copy)?

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Vaulter
1 year ago

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