Recent content by davlaw

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    VM still locked for backup after backup is finished

    Another occurrence, reviewing the log for the task it appears to be unable to open file/path for the VM conf file and is unable to update/remove the lock status So since this log would indicate issue is at the proxmox node? INFO: transferred 4.63 GiB in 259 seconds (18.3 MiB/s) INFO: adding...
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    VM still locked for backup after backup is finished

    Gonna add one more thought, qemu-guest-agent. Since its required for the snapshots on the guest. Any version requirements there? I do have a few older windows VMs that I might have a problem Getting any newer version for..
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    VM still locked for backup after backup is finished

    Guess I can add something I just came to mind, I have changed my tape backups frequency from daily to every 2 hours. Could there be some interference when tape backup comes across a VM that is being backed up?
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    VM still locked for backup after backup is finished

    I have random occurrences of VM being left in a "locked for backup" in PVE Since this involves both PBS and PVE I'm not sure where this should be posted, but hope the whole proxmox team will see this. I am at a loss, but suspect under-powered (such as bandwidth) network or other hardware...
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    [SOLVED] Backup stuck always on same VM

    I have seen things like this when there is a timeout, not sure how long it waits on getting a "lock"
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    PBS: How to back up physical servers?

    someone please lock/close this tread there is no longer any useful information here
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    Locking VMs

    I don't have much to add to your report with your environment and only am replying because I have seen VMs get locked as well. But in my case the are locked in "backup" state with no backup currently being performed. PBS is involved so I was not sure which on is the cause . Apology if not...
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    PBS: How to back up physical servers?

    Kind of facing similar conditions, No client for windows and if they did most likely would not work on my older windows vms anyway. I have spun up 4 debian vm's that I used as "bridges", mount the shares from the windows machine to and then use the backup client to backup the data. Its not a...
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    nvme_tcp

    Any value in our environment? Looks like its been around a few years but I stumbled on it today researching something else Guess if it was a "hot" item I would find more on it, but maybe it has a niche use case?
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    Spice error unable connect to graphic server

    we have a winner, as noted above restart of the vm in question was needed
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    Spice error unable connect to graphic server

    found this https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/solved-pve-certificate-expires-in-more-than-2-years.79152/ while the certs are now have valid dates, spice still does not like them... so reboot vm in question and last resort the node. We will see
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    Spice error unable connect to graphic server

    Well here is what I have ended up with so far pvecm updatecerts --force Gives me the following (re)generate node files generate new node certificate CA expires in less than 2 weeks, unable to generate certificate. viewing ssl cert data shows vailid sine 2023-01-25 05:14:45 expires 2023-02-06...
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    Spice error unable connect to graphic server

    I'm getting Mar 09 04:25:45 vlogic3 QEMU[2449776]: kvm: warning: Spice: error:14094415:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert certificate expired I'm off to research updating certs, but noticed the comment above about the restarts
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    SOLVED:Cleaning tape config brain F?#$

    Crap, just saw it.. CNL vs CLN. that should solve it?!??!