backup failed

mir · Jul 29, 2016

I am seeing this in the backup log after I have enabled iothread:
111: Jul 29 05:15:03 ERROR: Backup of VM 111 failed - disk 'scsi0' (iothread=on) can't use backup feature currently. Please set backup=no for this drive at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm line 74.

Is this a feature or a bug?

And if this is a feature then why?

qemu-server: 4.0-85

mir · Jul 30, 2016

Are we waiting for this patch series?
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg03015.html

spirit · Jul 30, 2016

Well, I think the proxmox backup code never had implemented Aiocontext.
The upsteam qemu backup code have implemented it last year
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=761731b1805f6ef64eb615e5b82a0801db3cde78

I known the proxmox code is not too much different, maybe it's working too now.

mir · Jul 30, 2016

spirit said:
Well, I think the proxmox backup code never had implemented Aiocontext.
The upsteam qemu backup code have implemented it last year
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=761731b1805f6ef64eb615e5b82a0801db3cde78

I known the proxmox code is not too much different, maybe it's working too now.

Nope, I have just tested with commented out line 74 in /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm. Doing this resolves in this error message: ERROR: Node 'drive-scsi0' is busy: block device is in use by data plane

So I think this feature is missing in proxmox which makes line 74 still needed in QemuServer.pm.

spirit · Jul 31, 2016

Hi think it should be not too difficult to implement, maybe can you make de bugreport on bugzilla ?

mir · Jul 31, 2016

https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071

mhammett · May 8, 2017

Seems to still be an issue.

Code:

ERROR: Backup of VM 102 failed - disk 'virtio0' 'local-lvm:vm-102-disk-1' (iothread=on) can't use backup feature currently. Please set backup=no for this drive at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm line 77.

ivensiya · May 19, 2017

Backup of VM 444 failed - disk 'virtio0' 'ZFS:vm-444-disk-2' (iothread=on) can't use backup feature currently

daviti · Jul 4, 2017

Same problem here trying to backup a Win10pro guest, with VirtIO drive:
ERROR: Backup of VM 101 failed - disk 'virtio0' 'local-zfs:vm-101-disk-1' (iothread=on) can't use backup feature currently. Please set backup=no for this drive at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm line 76

spirit · Jul 4, 2017

backup with iothread is not yet supported (proxmox <= 5.0)

nixmomo · Sep 27, 2017

In Version 5.0-32 the same error

Code:

disk 'virtio0' 'data:vm-102-disk-1' (iothread=on) can't use backup feature currently. Please set backup=no for this drive at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm line 77

gerfloim · Oct 3, 2017

Same error here on 5.0-32 - so what is the recommended way to resolve this?

fabian · Oct 4, 2017

Gerald Floßmann said:
Same error here on 5.0-32 - so what is the recommended way to resolve this?

turn of iothread or exclude iothread disks from backup? it is simply not yet implemented, as the error message says.

heiner · Feb 19, 2018

Ran into this issue today as well.
Is an implementation actively being worked on or would it be wiser to abandon iothread altogether if one needs the built-in backup functionality sometime in the foreseeable future?

And while I do understand that online backups of iothread drives would need some alterations as to how they are implemented in vzdump, shouldn't simple file level based offline backups be possible without a lot of rewrites?

Regards,
Heiner

positiveDay · May 19, 2018

Yes, if the machine is stopped the IOThread settings means nothing.
I disable IOThread in settings, execute backup, then enable IOThread.
The error should not be generated if the machine is stopped.

Bent · Jun 14, 2018

Any update on this topic?

Will backups with iothread=on be available soon?

iothread gives VMs a great IO performance benefit. I just cant justify to disable IO thread just for a backup. Is there anything holding you back from implementing this feature?

Bent · Aug 20, 2018

Sorry for being annoying -> Push?

Any update on this topic so far? I think this is a really important topic as there is no other built-in backup solution.

Josh Douglas · Dec 22, 2018

Still appears to be an issue 5.2-7. Will be trying the 5.3.x line on 12/24.

Bent · Dec 22, 2018

Josh Douglas said:
Still appears to be an issue 5.2-7. Will be trying the 5.3.x line on 12/24.

No need to test, same issue (Proxmox VE 5.3-6):

Code:

INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump XXX --storage local --mode snapshot --compress lzo --remove 0 --node YYYY
INFO: Starting Backup of VM XXX (qemu)
INFO: status = running
INFO: update VM XXX: -lock backup
INFO: VM Name: XXX
ERROR: Backup of VM XXX failed - disk 'virtio0' 'XXX:XXX/vm-XXX-disk-1.qcow2' (iothread=on) can't use backup feature currently. Please set backup=no for this drive at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm line 77.
INFO: Backup job finished with errors
TASK ERROR: job errors

I don't think this will ever be fixed after years. Sadly. Maybe it's a limitation of QEMU which I am not aware of but live snapshots with iothread would be really useful in any modern usecase.

Is there anything we (community) can do to assist development?

Ali Baba · May 24, 2019

Hey Guys,
Any updates from this issue still having on

Code:

pve-manager/5.4-3/0a6eaa62 (running kernel: 4.15.18-12-pve)

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