Automatic Garbage collector error on delete backup.

Dark26

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Bonjour,

I have this message on the task list :

2020-09-03T00:00:00+02:00: starting garbage collection on store Backup_Day 2020-09-03T00:00:00+02:00: task triggered by schedule 'daily' 2020-09-03T00:00:00+02:00: Start GC phase1 (mark used chunks) 2020-09-03T00:00:09+02:00: TASK ERROR: Unable to open dynamic index "/Backup_Day/ct/198/2020-08-26T01:00:04Z/root.pxar.didx" - No such file or directory (os error 2)

Indeed, the backup doesn't exist , i delete it to make space. ( i think i did it in the pbs interface, not in the pve interface )

But if i run in manual it's work :

2020-09-03T10:26:48+02:00: starting garbage collection on store Backup_Day 2020-09-03T10:26:48+02:00: Start GC phase1 (mark used chunks) 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: Start GC phase2 (sweep unused chunks) 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 1%, processed 208 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 2%, processed 417 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 3%, processed 619 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 4%, processed 803 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 5%, processed 1009 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 6%, processed 1197 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 7%, processed 1419 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 8%, processed 1624 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 9%, processed 1857 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 10%, processed 2059 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 11%, processed 2263 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 12%, processed 2453 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:11+02:00: 13%, processed 2643 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:12+02:00: 14%, processed 2832 chunks 2020-09-03T10:27:12+02:00: 15%, processed 3054 chunks 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I have this message on the task list :
Did the message appear again? You might have just ran into a race where you deleted it just as the GC was starting. Couldn't think of anything else, the automatic and manual GC use the same code internally...

If it happens again let me know, I'll take a look either way.
 
I will tell if the problem appears tommorow or if i can reproduce it.
 
Also had this error, quite easy to reproduce if you set the same schedule for pruning and gc on a datastore (eg, "daily" for both)
 
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Aldo had this error, quite easy to reproduce if you set the same schedule for pruning and gc on a datastore (eg, "daily" for both)

i have this option too ( daily both )

Maybe possible to set a différent time between the 2 tasks when the same schedule is set.
 
this is definitely a bug, I'll take a look.
 

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