Category: Avamar

How I Setup Backup Policies In My Avamars, In The Simplest Way Possible. When I first setup my first Avamar installation, the first question I had was, “How do other…Continue readingHow To Successfully Setup An Avamar Backup Policy.

How to fix Avamar not coming up after restart I was troubleshooting an issue and thought that if I restarted the Avamar that it would be fixed. After it finished…Continue readingHow to fix Avamar not coming up after restart

Here’s how to check your Avamar’s health with proactive_check In order to keep everything clean we will check if we already have a “proactive_check” directory by entering the list command…Continue readingHow to check your Avamar’s health with proactive_check

This will cover two different scenario where either one or both are a solution to this problem. Scenario 1. This is usually caused when the Rest API service is down.…Continue readingHow to fix Avamar Web UI page connection has timed out.

Recently I was asked by Avamar support to gather some data for a possible storage expansion. One of the first CLI commands they needed me to run was “mccli group…Continue readingEasily Reset The MCUser Password On Avamar

Okay guys I have another interesting one for you. I had been struggling for a few years now in my attempts to run an Activities – DPN Summary report on…Continue readingHow To Prevent Avamar’s “Activities – DPN Summary” Report From Crash

Recently I had a physical server failure. I will spare you the details, but to say that this was a mini-disaster recovery. This did teach me somethings that I had…Continue readingHow To Recover Filesystem Backup With Stuck “Waiting-Client”

We recently had a major failure in the environment outside of the systems that I am the engineer over. Because of the outage these events caused, something to happened to…Continue readingHow to rollback to a checkpoint after Avamar crash