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This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies Enterprise and Datacenter Infrastructure products. We carefully evaluate and monitor code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.
Updated:  April 27, 2026 ID: 000205512

This article explains that a regular Avamar client does not officially support backing up data from CIFS (SMB) and NFS-mapped network shares. Only NDMP accelerator nodes support this functionality. There is a workaround for special situations but support is limited.
Updated:  April 17, 2026 ID: 000046220

File Level Restore fails with message: "Invalid response from the client agent java.io.EOFException."
Updated:  April 29, 2026 ID: 000412341

Dell Avamar Data Store Gen5A remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.
Updated:  April 29, 2026 ID: 000437829

An article to help diagnose slow backup performance of Avamar VMware Image level backups.
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000041062

DB2 archivelog backup may fail with "avtar Error <5126>: Login error 69: Authentication failure (Invalid password? User disabled?"
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000062912

Comment entry "comment" file "<vadir>/<clientname>/<volume_name>.comment" not found
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000063843

Oracle Avamar rman CLI archivelog backup does not run concurrently with database backups when a taskfile is in use
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000065379

This article explains how to verify the Avamar DB2 plugin archivelog configuration to ensure that DB2 databases are correctly set up for archive log backups.
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000023656

DDCDR Unable to add vCenter server to the CDRA during deployment due to certificate error issue.
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000052397

Avamar Filesystem backup of Solaris Client fails with Signal 11 exit - Segmentation Fault
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000052404

Avamar Rman Plugin client initiated backups do not update sbtio.log
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000065420

Avamar Rman plugin backups may fail with avoracle_util:get_oracle_version get_oracle_version_by_CLI() failed.
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000081657

This article fixes an issue with Archivelog or Level 1 Oracle backup fails with message: An incremental backup was requested but there is no previous full backup
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000170584

HFScheck is running for longer than expected. This is due to Avamar checkpoint not being created on all storage nodes due to suspended disk.
Updated:  April 28, 2026 ID: 000039842

This article provides estimates on scheduling lead time when booking RPS upgrades.
Updated:  April 27, 2026 ID: 000021599

TCP window scaling
Updated:  April 27, 2026 ID: 000051503

Avtar flags modify default backup behaviors for datasets or individual clients, enabling environment customization and effective troubleshooting.
Updated:  April 26, 2026 ID: 000004730

Avamar upgrade fails with Register Replicator (x of x)
Updated:  April 24, 2026 ID: 000062708

Avamar VMware clients may fail with 10007 error "Process 4018 (/usr/local/avamarclient/bin/avtar) finished Signal 9 exit - killed" due to lack of memory available on the proxy.
Updated:  April 23, 2026 ID: 000059044

How to reset or regenerate certificates due to expiration (or misconfiguration).
Updated:  April 23, 2026 ID: 000188770

After updating pam files to meet STIG requirements for failed login behavior, the OS admin account is locked out.
Updated:  April 23, 2026 ID: 000280575

Information about an Oracle 12c recovery using Avamar: set Recovery Manager (RMAN) channel Storage Backup Tool (SBT)_LIBRARY=/usr/local/avamar/lib/libobk_avamar64.so and avtar flag file (no --label number). Run RMAN RECOVER TABLE … UNTIL TIME 'SYSDATE‑n' AUXILIARY/DATAPUMP; clear channel.
Updated:  April 23, 2026 ID: 000038655

SQL redirected restore fails due to Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) being enabled on SQL databases.
Updated:  April 23, 2026 ID: 000052697

An Avamar Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup to an Isilon IP Address fails with "Unable to establish data connection to address." Traffic may be blocked by avfirewall on NDMP Accelerator, or on the customer network.
Updated:  April 22, 2026 ID: 000064133

SSL Library Error: 8053 SEC_ERROR_BUSY errors found in Apache error_log
Updated:  April 22, 2026 ID: 000042125

This article lists which settings to adjust if the default setting for File Level Restore (FLR) browsing is not sufficient.
Updated:  April 22, 2026 ID: 000023179

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (VMs) 6.0.3.1 and later are qualified with VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) backup solutions. However, sometimes protected Virtual Machines may see Snapshot consolidation errors or Virtual Machine (VM) restarts, during backup operations.
Updated:  April 22, 2026 ID: 000423284

An Avamar SharePoint backup fails with avmossvss Error 14046 when the SharePoint VSS Writer does not report any SharePoint components on the frontend server. Avamar cannot expand backup targets when the VSS Writer is not correctly registered or initialized.
Updated:  April 22, 2026 ID: 000039443

How to find the Software Serial ID (SWID) that is required to open a service request or support case for software products.
Updated:  April 22, 2026 ID: 000221319