Backup fails, yet it doesn't

[Sir-robin10]

Hi,

I have been running proxmox for over a year now, had some issues, but for 99.9% of the time it just works perfectly, so my deepest respect to the devs!

Anyhow, I currently have on Proxmox 6.2-4 some errors, or actually no error but a failing backup job which doesn't output any error.

My current setup:

A PVE node that runs the latest pve version.
12 HDD's (zfs)
1 boot drive (ssd)
1 nvme drive (vm storage)
1 external hdd for the backups.


The external drive is whereto I backup. This drive is automounted and is in my drives tab in the datacenter.

What proxmox throws me in my face is the following:

INFO: Backup finished at 2020-09-08 07:10:55 INFO: Backup job finished with errors TASK ERROR: job errors


No further information given.



this is the output of the package version:

proxmox-ve: 6.2-1 (running kernel: 5.4.34-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.2-4 (running version: 6.2-4/9824574a)
pve-kernel-5.4: 6.2-1
pve-kernel-helper: 6.2-1
pve-kernel-5.4.34-1-pve: 5.4.34-2
ceph-fuse: 12.2.11+dfsg1-2.1+b1
corosync: 3.0.3-pve1
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: 0.8.35+pve1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.15-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.0.3
libpve-access-control: 6.1-1
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-common-perl: 6.1-2
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.0-10
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-5
libpve-storage-perl: 6.1-7
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve4
lxc-pve: 4.0.2-1
lxcfs: 4.0.3-pve2
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.2-1
pve-cluster: 6.1-8
pve-container: 3.1-5
pve-docs: 6.2-4
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20200229-1
pve-firewall: 4.1-2
pve-firmware: 3.1-1
pve-ha-manager: 3.0-9
pve-i18n: 2.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 5.0.0-2
pve-xtermjs: 4.3.0-1
qemu-server: 6.2-2
smartmontools: 7.1-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.3-pve1

So the question is, why is this failing? is it because there is an external drive or what?

 

[harry700]

Hi! Is this specific problem something that was working for you before version 6.2-4?
Is it just VMs that you're backing up and are there many?
Could you post the rest of your backup/vzdump output? I guess there could be some other interesting messages in there.

 

[Sir-robin10]

Hi! Is this specific problem something that was working for you before version 6.2-4?
Is it just VMs that you're backing up and are there many?
Could you post the rest of your backup/vzdump output? I guess there could be some other interesting messages in there.

Hi!

Yes I have a lot of vms (there are more than 13), but as you suggested to put the full output here, I needed to strip it down, then it occured to me that there were in fact other errors... (whoops)

but the solution is this;

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/b...eady-exists-in-volume-group.42377/post-207948