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I think there are several deduplication-related subjects that require thorough documentation by Commvault. 1.) There is a long-standing recommendation to limit deduplication database disks to TWO PER MEDIA AGENT.’ I was able to track this recommendation as far back as Simpana 9.0, but I’m not sure if it pre-dates that. This limit feels rather arbitrary, and it doesn’t take into account the performance capabilities of the host platform, or advances in computing kit since the original recommendation was made. I can’t find any references showing WHY such a limit should exist.In my case, I have three Deduplication disks on my media agents (all NVMe SSD), and that runs with zero issues. The Media Agents are spec’d over the recommended Extra Large spec, and they don’t even sweat. I would like to issue a call to Commvault to really explain why this limitation is in place. The Deduplication Building Block section of the documentation would be an ideal place for this information. Th
I am running a migration from other vendor to CV. For a time being, is it possible that I restrict commvault to use media from designated slots (not to scan/use all library slots). Just to avoid conflict as the tape library would be having CV as well as other vendor media.
Hi there,I would like to ask you, in general, which elements are in play during the DDB verification? Is there communication between the DDB database and the disk library during the DDB verification job?In documentation, there is written that "Verification cross-verifies the unique data blocks on disk with the information contained in the DDB and the CommServe database." So, it means that there is communication between media agent and master server… The thing is, that in our case this verification job even Incremental takes a very long time. However, the performance of the disk with DDB database looks quite good.
Hello,I need to create a backup job with all full backups to tape in a physical library(new library) that the customer has purchased.Today all backups are on disk (File Library).After the new Jobs to tape has been succesfully executed (3 backup jobs to tape will be done), i need to erase the full backup, which today is very old and needs to be done a new full backup, because the size will be smaller and will free up more space in disk.Wait guys for the best practices to do this.Another question: i will create the Storage Police for the library with permanente retention and include all tapes in the same SP or create other for example: Database, Exchange, etc.@Mike Struening
Storage policy creation wizard asks for storage pool creation and global DDB creation. How to bypass this? I don't want to create a global DDB. Commvault is at V11.23.
Hi alli need your help to understand table architecture for Deduplication database v4 gen2 table structure and there functioning. There is as such no information available on documentation explaining current ddb table structure. Please help with the information if possible.
Hi there, could you please help me what to do if all drives within the tape library went offline? The offline reason seems to be very strange: [Cannot communicate with Media Mount Manager Service.Please ensure that.a. The MediaAgent is reachable from CommServe.b. All MediaAgent services are running.] A - Checked that MA is reachableB - Checked that all services are running What can help us to make drives online? Also verified in Windows device manager that drives are present and visible.
Hello everyone,At my DR site I use HP MSA disk devices for CommVault backup storage and they are currently over 86% full. I have asked my manager to add the cost of another MSA to the budget and she’s asking for growth rates to ensure that one MSA will be sufficient. I’m searching for that information and am not able to find it even though (I would have thought) that this is a pretty basic information. I did find the “Disk Library Growth Trend” report but don’t trust its numbers as the used space and free space increase at the same time despite the fact that the total storage has remained constant. I’m not sure where it’s getting its information but, well, it just doesn’t make sense. Screen capture below.So my question is: How can I find a storage growth rate to use for media agent capacity planning?Ken
lets say there are 1000 jobs needs to move on tape, i want to take the secondary copy of jobs on date wise it should not pic random jobs for aux copy.
we have commserve version 11.24 and those option in below image are not appears, Why?New Global Secondary Copy policy New Global Deduplication PolicyOld Versionbelow options we have CS 11.24
I have several cloud libraries, where the storage and DDB are controlled by an on-premises MA. I would like to switch several of them to a different on-premises MA. But cannot seem to find anything here on it the docs on how to switch MAs for an existing cloud library.
We have a partitioned DDB that uses a Disk library with 12 mount points. Spill and fill has been configured.An oracle DB is backed up with 4 streams/channels. The backup allocates 4 streams but these streams are allocated to one mount point and via one MA. How can the streams be spread across multiple mountpoints such that 2 go via MA1 and 2 via MA2.===Second Oracle DB is being backed up. This takes the same partition as the above job and uses another mount point with all 4 streams going to the same mountpoint. Any ideas how the streams to make Commvault distribute the streams evenly?
Hi,i have a question regarding the implementation of a cloud library with Scality Ring.We can create two type of mount path S3 Compatible Storage or Scality Ring.Which is required ? (i have some cloud libraries already created in S3 compatible storage instead of scality ring type).There is a difference between them ?Kind regards, Christophe
