Backup job hung

May 28, 2025
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Anyone have experience with a hung VM backup job and safely stopping/killing the task? Currently I have a backup job hung on one of my Proxmox nodes. The node status shows as unknown. The VMs appear to be running as expected. Here is the backup status:

root@aschpve03:~# ps awxf | grep vzdump
2027308 pts/9 S+ 0:00 \_ grep vzdump
1620542 ? Ds 0:05 task UPID:aschpve03:0018BA3E:0718624D:695D1B04:vzdump:106:root@pam:
2002891 ? D 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -T /usr/bin/vzdump -stop


This node is part of a four node cluster. I do not see any running tasks on our Proxmox Backup Server or even an attempt for the backup. Appreciate an help!

Thanks!
 
1620542 ? Ds 0:05 task UPID:aschpve03:0018BA3E:0718624D:695D1B04:vzdump:106:root@pam:
2002891 ? D 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -T /usr/bin/vzdump -stop
Both processes are in an uninterruptible sleep state (as shown by D in the output of ps). This most likely indicates that the processes are blocking on IO. To recover from this you will have to reboot, there is no way to kill these processes. Check your storage and systemd journal for issues. Are you using a network attached storage which might be unreachable/offline?