A new feature for vzdump

[Halgeir]

Today I experienced that the vzdump process hanged. I used the backup stop option. Had to kill the vzdump process, unlock and start the virtual machine to get everything up in the morning. Is it possible to have a timeout option which can terminate the backup if it's not completed after x hours?

 

[tom]

yes, a better monitoring would be nice.

 

[dietmar]

Today I experienced that the vzdump process hanged.?

You run out of disk space?

 

[Halgeir]

Yes, that was the problem. I have solved it now. But should the vzdump command hang when it runs out of disk space? I would be better if it reported "out of diskspace" and the abort the backupprocess?

 

[dietmar]

I would be better if it reported "out of diskspace" and the abort the backupprocess?

Unfortunately the system call (write) hangs - don't really know if that is expected or a bug.