Avamar Server

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This article is for Avamar user and operating system Capacity Management. It is intended for use by Avamar system administrators or those who monitor the health of an Avamar grid, who requires a working understanding of how to manage operating system and User Capacity levels.

This article describes how to run a backend capacity report on the /REPLICATE domain.

This article discusses Avamar partial backups and how they behave.

This article shows how to submit a request for new features or functionality in Avamar.

The change-passwords script fails to run due to an expired admin password.

This article provides an overview of how to change the passwords for the internal Avamar 'viewuser' and 'repluser' accounts.

The issue is seen during or after a 19.10 upgrade. Either in the middle or post upgrade the Avamar Installer (AVI) no longer accepts the root password and says it is invalid. In 19.10 new password changes and complexities have been introduced, this includes force setting an expiry warning for 99 days. If the customer sets their password to expire in less than 99 days (commonly 30 or 60 days), the warning appears continuously, preventing login.

Management Console Server (MCS) message "getsockname failed: Bad file descriptor"

An error is encountered logging in to the Avamar Administrator UI.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) daemon fails to start.

An Avamar Workflow Package (AVP) is rejected in the AVI webpage repository due to an invalid sysinfo error.

This article outlines how to address the two known issues when the ddrmaint.log is not updating.

Restoring replicated or Remote Backups residing on an Avamar target do not complete using a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user account.

This article shows how to start the Management Console Server (MCS) by addressing an existing hostname configuration issue on the Avamar.

Avamar node reports an Input-output error due to a potential file system issue.

This article provides a resolution for the issue: Symptom Code 4202 - failed garbage collection with error MSG_ERR_BADTIMESYNC

Single node grids, including the Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE), cannot have capacity added. This article lists the workaround.

FLR Browse fails with error message "Failed to parse the LVM GUID list" for vCenter image backup.

This article explains how to fix an issue where the avinstaller workflow stops at 0% without progressing.

This article outlines how to manage checkpoint backups (CP-Backup) with Avamar and Data Domain.

The Management Console Server (MCS) alerts every 30 minutes with the error "31117 WARN Failed to get Avamar MTree" due to no matching ciphers.

How to reset or regenerate certificates due to expiration (or misconfiguration).

This article explains the failure of the checkpoint backup, also known as cpbackup, due to the server root password containing a special character such as $.

Cloud DR runs a Retention process for the purpose to validate Virtual Machine copies previously uploaded and during this process the following Warning can occur: Could not delete all disks segments after collapsing.

During the workflow to Failback a Virtual Machine to the on premise VMware, Virtual Center is not able to complete successfully.

To show the steps to enable SSL validation between the Avamar and Cloud Disaster Recovery Add-ON (CDRA) when Avamar has added a Signed Certificate Authority.

Avamar Hyper-V backups fail with "Checkpoint creation for Virtual machine has failed and will be skipped from backup" error.

Avamar Granular Level Recovery (GLR) for Exchange (ItemPoint) browse does not show edb/log path in UI.