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T
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TinketBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

WHAT HAPPEN IF AUXCOPY HAS BEEN COPY TO TAPE

Goodmorning family pls am kind of new to commvault, Now my question is what happen once AUXCopy has been copy to tape will data on media server  backup still remain?and if it remain then can i manually delete those data on it? because most of the mounth path luns has been fill up waiting for ageing to effect and the rate by which our data increase is too fast because is a big environment. i check our VM retention policy is set to 30day am thinking if it less risky to manually delete some data off from this disknote we have 5 HQ media server with 80TB each with 10TB each LUNs 2 DR media servers also.

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T
Bit
2 years ago
W
Byte
WaynByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Tape not available

Nice day, some tapes are not available in the scratch pool, although they are physically present in the library. He tried to move them to the library and did a full scan, but it didn't help. What can be done to make them available? 

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L
Byte
2 years ago
T
Byte
TP_EricksonByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Separating a monthly full backup from Weekly full, best practice?

We are using a tape environment for our backups. One of the issues i have with commvaults storage policy is that it doesn't really have a difference on how it does full backups. Our retention cycles are a daily backup (Differentials) of 7 days 1 cycle, weekly full 28 days 1 cycle, and a monthly full with 1095 days +. Currently with how the storage policy is set up it is running to the default, all the data is being dumped to one tape and usually has monthly, daily and weekly data on the same tape. I notice when i pull my monthlies i sometimes will see that the weekly fulls and daily are eating up space that could be used to fill more monthly fulls unto the tape.I was wondering what would be the best practice to separate the monthly full away from the other backup retentions of the storage policy?  Would it be something along th3e lines of creating an aux copy in the storage policy and just copy the last weekly full to the aux copy to separate the monthly full from the other data? or is

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
J
JamieK
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Enable Physical Pruning equivalent in v10?

Hi all,I have a client still running v10 (yes, I know ...their call) and last year new additional storage was configured in their CommCell (2 sites). A new library and mount paths were created in each of the sites and new Primary and DASH copies created with data paths to the new storage in the respective sites.I’m finding that the storage for the Primary copy in their main site is filling up and there is nothing obvious in the forecast report. Is there such a setting in v10 which corresponds with the Enable Physical Pruning in v11? Thanks in advance.JamieK  

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
Henke
Byte
HenkeByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Using imutable storage data volume increase

Hello,I’m trying to do some math over effects of changing 2:nd copy to be stored on immutable volumes in azure.I have retention of 365 days, currently no seal of db database but seems recommendation is 180 days. According to the formula in another post, that would give me that I should have 545 days as immutable days on the storage volume.Our baseline is 18TB.Since there is 18TB as baseline and there will be 3 seals of the DDB, does that mean that I will add 3 times 18TB to the volume since no data pruning will happen for 545 days?//Henke

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
J
Byte
Jean-PaulByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

How to create GridStor®️ (Alternate Data Paths)

Hello All, I would like to know if there is a procedure how to do GridStor®️ (Alternate Data Paths).I want to link a secondary Media Agent to primary(first) Media Agent.I want that the Round Robin will work with both of the Media Agent.

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
N
Bit
norBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Cloud Library with s3 bucket using Azure-based access

I am currently using cloud storage libraries configured with AWS IAM accounts. Our organization uses Azure for SSO to AWS.Is it possible to reconfigure the cloud libraries to use Azure credentials?

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
Fernando Souza
Byte
Fernando SouzaByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Additional Partitions for a Deduplication Database

HelloScenary: 2 MA´s in a CommCell.The Customer has bought 1 more MA and he wants to add the SSD disk space to the existing DDB. I was reading the manual(Commvault site) and have a question, the site says “before you start”.Where can i get this “Authenticate Code”?https://documentation.commvault.com/m/commvault/v11_sp5/article?p=features/deduplication/t_configuring_additional_partitions.htm 

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
B
Byte
BloopaByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Extended retention or not?

Hello,Sorry I can’t correct the title are/or :)On a Storage policy that has deduplication enabled I have this message and I understood why.My question is :can I unselect the Extended Retention Rule 1 set for 90 daysand increase the basic one to for example to 90 days, if yes, how many cycle is good to have for 90 ?   Thanks

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
downhill
Byte
downhillByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

LTO-8 drive compatibility etc..

The Tape Storage Matrix is getting quite “interesting” over time. I am not sure why there are still references to outdated unsupported OS’s and architectures, but that’s more of an comment than a question. I’m trying to verify whether a drive is on the matrix and not coming up with anything. Under the filter section there’s no windows OS. Hmm. If I search for T50e, Windows 2008R2 is the newest “supported” OS for it? What? Is this to say if I call in a ticket for a newer OS on that autoloader might support tell me “sorry Charlie”? Latest code for that unit is BlueScale12.7.07.03-20180817F, it’s not in the Matrix at all. Not sure how to take this or not. Anyone have a similar situation. Plenty of life left in these units and still fully supported by Spectra. Will LTO-8 work?thanks

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downhill
Byte
2 years ago
Marco Lachance
Byte
Marco LachanceByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Report for back-end storage usage ?

Hi, is there a way to know how much a server/client is using unique block in the back-end storage when Global dedupe is involved ?So If I deleted the server for Commvault what’s going to be the free space free up ?

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
D
Byte
drPhilByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Application Size vs Total Data to Process Discrepancy

Hi there! Could you please explain here why there is discrepancy between Application Size and Total Data to Process in the Job Controller view? My assumption is that there are some leftovers from previous backups, that need to be backed up/to be copied. Or is there any other reason?  

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J
Vaulter
2 years ago
D
Byte
drPhilByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

NDMP slow backup/reader time

Hi there!Is there any way how to investigate very poor reader time in NDMP backup in Commvault?Quick look at a part of the log suggests slow reader time to be a culprit of the poor backup performance: |*1292266*|*Perf*|696353| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|*1292266*|*Perf*|696353|     Perf-Counter                                  Time(seconds)              Size|*1292266*|*Perf*|696353| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|*1292266*|*Perf*|696353||*1292266*|*Perf*|696353| Replicator DashCopy|*1292266*|*Perf*|696353|  |_Buffer allocation............................         -                            [Samples - 477421] [Avg - 0.000000]|*1292266*|*Perf*|696353|  |_Media Open...................................        20                            [Samples - 5] [Avg - 4.000000]|*1292266*|*Perf*|696353|  |_Chunk Recv...................................     

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
O
Bit
omERmanBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Auxilary Copy not copied some jobs

Hi Folks,I have interesting situation about aux copy. I’ m doing DASH copy from one Disk Library to another Disk Library. Despite the successful completion of Aux Copy, 4 jobs remain in "Partially Copied" status. I ran Data Verification on Primary Copy for 4 Jobs and it completed successfully. I did Re-Copy but it stays the same, I did Do Not Copy - Pick for Copy but it's still the same. All Backups is selected in Copy Policy. What should I check?Best Regards.

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
B
Bit
BartsBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Import backup from Disk Library

HiBackground: Our backups are stored on a Data Domain and the Data Domain replicates itself to a remote site, additionally we've got daily snapshots on the data domain itself to prevent backup data deletion (these snapshots can only be deleted using the sysadmin account).Because we use Data Domain we are storing our backups without compression or deduplication. But my question can be the same for the following situation:Lets assume I've got a media agent, with a data disk (where the disk library is on) attached to it. the building catches fire and I am only able to unplug the data drive. I loose everything expect for the data drive. If I install a new commcell, can I then import the backups from that data drive somehow?

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
YYZ
Byte
YYZByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Balance a DDB

HiA single partition DDB outgrew its SSDThe simple solution was toadd a spare SSD and partition the DDB - to now have two active partitionThis has resulted the second ‘empty’ DDB growing a little, but the original partition has remained almost full (due to some infinite retention clients) Is there any way to ‘re-balance’ the DDB’sI could perform a full reconstruction (from disk, not from a DDB backup) - That's going to take 2-3 days to completeI wondered whether there was a ‘hidden feature’ or a workflow that could dynamically ‘equally balance’ the space used by the DDB - to be equal across both SSDs Many Thanks   

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
Matthew M. Magbee
Byte
Matthew M. MagbeeSocial Yottabyte
posted in Storage and Deduplication

Dell powerstore array and Intellesnap?

Good day vaulters! Has anyone used the powerstore with an intellesnap? Curious how you got it rolling.

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
H
Bit
HITSBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Pruning Performance

Hi!Started a pruning job (DDB → All Tasks). Checked the Logs on the MA, pruning is running.Checked the Ressource Monitor - CPU is low, Memory is low, Disk usage is low. So can i increase the pruning performance?

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J
Vaulter
2 years ago
B
Byte
Baba ImaniByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Add Azure Storage Account Container as an Independent Library

I have a question. We have a Azure storage account container “backup” added as Cloud Storage Library in Commvault. This storage account and container is provisioned in Commvault as CL_Backup library. Can I create an additional container in the same storage account, name it “newbackups” and add it as a separate library in Storage Resources called CL_SecondaryBackups for example?I’m trying to leverage data cost savings in Azure by using the same storage account but with multiple containers.

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
J
Byte
JNIZByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Azure blob space library with immutable policy

Hello,we have created a test Azure blob space library which should be used for deduplicated secondary copy. There is an immutable policy set on the container. According to Commvault documentation we set the container retention twice the value that has the storage policy copy retention, then in the DDB properties “create new DDB  every [] days” to value of storage policy copy retention. During the backup cycles, there remain sealed DDB’s, which don’t reference any job (all expired). Then someday they are indefinitively automatically removed (and then their baseline from cloud storage space). These baselines in the cloud consume very lot space (and costs). There are 3 to 4 baselines in the cloud during the backup cycles.Please has somebody experience with cloud library deduplication (with immutable blobs) ?  Is really more then 3 times more space necessary for the backup ? Which process in Commvault decides, when the sealed DDB will be removed ?After test we would like to give a realisti

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Henke
Byte
2 years ago
E
Byte
elizabetaByte
posted in Storage and Deduplication

Problem with copy media LTO4 (IBM Tape library) to LTO7 (HPE Tape Library)

Hello,I have IBM Tape library TS3200 with LTO4 media. Now we have a new Tape library HPE with LTO7 media. How we can copy data from LTO4 Media (old Tape library) to LTO7 Tape library.Which way is recomended? Maybe Media Refresh??Thank you!Best regards,Elizabeta

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
K
Bit
Keyur DaveBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Issue with detecting SAS atached Tape Library

Hi, We have SAS attached TS4300 tape library dedicately assigned to AIX 7.2 LPAR hosted on IBM Power9 host. Installed Atape driver on AIX.We can take backup and restore it on OS level. But Commvault tools like testinq, ScanScsiTool not able to detect the device. root> lsdev -Cc tapermt0 Available 00-00-00 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (SAS)smc0 Available 00-00-00 IBM 3573 Library Medium Changer (SAS)root> lsdev -Cc adapter | grep sassissas0 Available 00-00 PCIe3 RAID SAS Adapter Quad-port 6Gb x8 testinq gives following error:root> /opt/commvault/Base> ./detectdevices -add tapesas0 rmt0.1 5764854988047962203 0 pthru_atape tapesas0 smc0 5764854988047962206 1 pthru_atape taperoot> /opt/commvault/MediaAgent64> ./testinq /dev/sas0 5764854988047962203 0devsubtype = '7', 0x37Error: ioctl SCIOLINQU failed with error 19 (No such device)Info: version = 2, status_validity = 0x02, scsi_status = 0x00, adapter_status = 0x04, adap_set_flags = 0x00Is there any specific driver on OS lev

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J
Vaulter
2 years ago
E
Byte
Egor SkepkoByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

DDB Full

One of our DDB getting full, what is the best practis to make some space on DDB? 

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Mike Struening
2 years ago
L
Bit
LucasBit
asked in Storage and Deduplication

AWS Glacier data removal

We copy data to AWS S3 for long term retention and let it age to glacier after 30 days. In order for this data to be restorable I first have to rehydrate it with a workflow as Commvault only expects to work with S3 storage tier. This works fine for the occasional restores. We are now looking into a larger data removal as part of a cleanup project to reduce AWS glacier storage costs. My questions: If I delete jobs from the Commcell that have aged to glacier, does Commvault have to rehydrate this data back to the S3 tier to be purged from AWS? If so, is this done with the same restoration job Cloud Recall workflow? 

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B
Vaulter
2 years ago
E
Byte
EldanByte
asked in Storage and Deduplication

Can't do Online Full SAP for Oracle backup

getting the following errorError Code: [82:172]Description: Could not connect to the DeDuplication Database process for Store Id [44].Source: sapdrfr7, Process: backint_oracle don’t find the backing oracle processany suggestions? 

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Mike Struening
2 years ago

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