[SOLVED] ERROR: Backup of VM 100 failed - command 'qm set 100 --lock backup' failed

youmarva

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Sep 27, 2014
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Hi,

By wanting to backup my virtual machine in a some cases I have "backup failed" in both versions of proxmox 2.2-24 and 3.1-21 :
and here is the error message:

Code:
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=tahoma]INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 100 --remove 0 --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage Disque_Backups --node vm1[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=tahoma]INFO: Starting Backup of VM 100 (qemu)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=tahoma]INFO: status = running[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=tahoma]INFO: VM is locked (backup)[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#ff0000][B][FONT=tahoma]ERROR: Backup of VM 100 failed - command 'qm set 100 --lock backup' failed: exit code 25[/FONT][/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=tahoma]INFO: Backup job finished with errors[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=tahoma]TASK ERROR: job errors[/FONT][/COLOR]

What could be the cause of this error ?
I made several research but I have not found any on this error.
thank you for helping me

Best regards,
 
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