Avamar: Cannot select /REPLICATE when running a backend capacity report

Summary: Avamar Administrator does not allow /REPLICATE to be selected when running a backend capacity report.

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Symptoms

The backend report is being configured through the Avamar Administrator interface. 

The domains and clients to be included in the report must be selected.
  • The expected domains are shown, but the /REPLICATE domain is not visible.
  • Specifying /REPLICATE when calling the backend report from the Avamar command-line results in no meaningful data is produced.

    Example output is shown below: 
nohup backendreport --include=/REPLICATE/source-avamar/domain/testclient.company.com  --avtar=--clearcache --avtar=--hashcachemax=-10 --small-client-mb=0 --verbose > backendreport-repl.out &
[1] 10074
  
tail -f backendreport-repl.out
Changing working directory to /tmp/replicate

INFO: Inclusion patterns are: "/REPLICATE/source-avamar/domain/testclient.company.com"

avmgr logn
1  Request succeeded
-1  privilege level  (enabled,create,read,backup,access,move,delete,maint,manage,fullmanage,noticketrequired,
superuser,ignoreacls,readdir,mclogin,opt1,opt2)
2  block type  (directory)

avmgr cpdb --path=/ --mvpath=/REPLICATE/ --out=replnew.sh --avmgr-path=avmgr  --failover
--list-snapups
Script "replnew.sh" for target path /REPLICATE copies 36 users in 115 accounts (81 clients)
Accounting changes: 0 differences


DONE Replicate to  successful, elapsed 0000:00:08   (Wed Jan 22 09:42:18 GMT 2019)

<backendreport version="6.1.2-46" reporttime="2019/01/22-09:42:18" bytessent="0" totaltime="0">
</backendreport>
completed backendreport (pid=10074)
============================== Finished backendreport

Cause

The backend report uses a standard root-to-replicate replication process to calculate its results.
  • Standard replication is intended to take a regular domain as its srcpath and not the /REPLICATE domain.
  • The backend capacity report does not accept a path containing the /REPLICATE domain.

Resolution

The Avamar Administrator UI does not allow the /REPLICATE domain to be selected for reporting purposes.

The backend report must be run on the source Avamar Administrator UI against clients under the / (root) domain.

Workaround:

It is possible to run the backend report against the /REPLICATE domain by running it from the command line. For more information, see Avamar: How to run a backend capacity report on the /REPLICATE domain

Affected Products

Avamar, Avamar Server
Article Properties
Article Number: 000046225
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 12 Feb 2026
Version:  8
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