fsfreeze

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    Backup failed, 'guest-fsfreeze-thaw' failed - got timeout| job errors

    Good time, I ran into a problem that backup does not work on one of the 3 machines, after searching for information on the forums I tried to disable quemu agent - the problem persists. Attaching the system versions: pve-qemu-kvm: 8.1.5-6 qemu-server: 8.2.1 pve-manager/8.2.4/running kernel...
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    [SOLVED] Workaround to use qemu-user-agent without guest-fsfreeze ?

    Hi all, I think we're all aware of the the issue with the snapshot backup locking the guest FS with fsfreeze and not being able to thaw the FS, resulting in a completely locked VM. It's been discussed many times in and out of this forum. I don't know if there is any progress in fixing the very...
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    Backup crashes VM - 'guest-fsfreeze-freeze' failed - got timeout

    Hello, The fsfreeze-freeze command works as expected when executed from CLI but crashes a VM when executed by the backup scheduler. Here's some useful info. Guest: Debian 11 Linux server.transud.ro 5.10.0-11-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux qemu-guest-agent...
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    snapshot backup is not working now

    Hi every one, I just installed new 6.1 PVE and found snapshot backup is not working at all. I found the backup log ceased after the following line: INFO: issuing guest-agent 'fs-freeze' command I guess maybe qemu-guest-agent cause this issue, so I login into VM(CentOS7) and stop...
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    Problem with fsfreeze-freeze and qemu guest agent

    Hello, we're running proxmox-ve: 5.4-1 (running kernel: 4.15.18-12-pve) I was trying to test qemu-guest-agent fsfreeze function in a CloudLinux release 7.7 (3.10.0-962.3.2.lve1.5.26.4.el7.x86_64) guest. When I issue the command qm agent <vmid> fsfreeze-freeze The guest agent stop...
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    vzdump error: guest-fsfreeze-freeze failed

    Wen backing up some KVM guests from ZFS to NFS, vzdump gives the following error: As you can see it takes exactly one hour until vzdump tries this freeze and fails many times, after that the backup completes in normal time. It only happens to a few VMs, most of them are not affected. Any...

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