Backup Problem

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SaNkA

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Hi guys,
I have some problem with the new backup feature on proxmox.
I scheduled backups with snapshot mode every morning at 5:00 am and it's the second time that the server is totally frozen. I can't do anything, i can just switch off the server with the button.
I haven't got anything on the logs. So... if anyone have the same problem or solution, tell me what ;)
 
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SaNkA said:
Hi guys,
I have some problem with the new backup feature on proxmox.
I scheduled backups with snapshot mode every morning at 5:00 am and it's the second time that the server is totally frozen. I can't do anything, i can just switch off the server with the button.
I have nothing on the logs. So... if anyone have the same problem or solution, tell me what ;)
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  1. how many gig´s do you backup?
  2. KVM or OpenVZ containers or both?
  3. where is you backup location? local or remote?
 
- how many gig´s do you backup? : 2 of 32Gb and 1 of 64Gb

- KVM or OpenVZ containers or both? : KVM

- where is you backup location? local or remote? : Local


Since the backup feature is enabled, it failed 2 times and 3 times it works...

Thanks for the quick reply :)
 
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try to run vzdump manually to see what happens

(see /etc/cron.d/vzdump what command gets executed)

- Dietmar
 
SaNkA said:
yes, i have enough space :)
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how big is your root partition, by default it is maximum 100 GB which is to small in your case.
 
SaNkA said:
My root partition is 33Gb but the backup files are 14Gb so i have enough space.
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and again, where is the backup location? local, but which path?
 
i have made a directory called "backup" on /root

But i think it's not the problem because the backup works fine in most of time...
 
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SaNkA said:
i have made a directory called "backup" on /root

But i think it's not the problem because the backup works fine in most of time...
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Maybe en temp file problem, even if you tar'ed the backup file maybe you got not enough space at some moments...

Try to install monitoring tool like Cacti/Munin/Mrtg to take an history of your disk space...
 
I already have a Nagios server that monitors my disk space and on the graphs, on the backup period, the root partition is not full.

Edit: I have to go so I will tell you tomorrow how the next backup happened

Thanks again :)
 
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Hi guys!
This morning the backup was successful. No problems.
So, I don't know why some days it doesn't work ...
 
there are 3 log files on /var/log/vzdump : 101.log, 102.log, 103.log

101.log :
Code: 
Nov 06 05:00:02 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101 (qemu)
Nov 06 05:00:02 INFO: status = running
Nov 06 05:00:02 INFO: creating lvm snapshot of /dev/mapper/pve-data ('/dev/pve/vzsnap')
Nov 06 05:00:02 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" created
Nov 06 05:00:02 INFO: mounting lvm snapshot
Nov 06 05:00:04 INFO: creating archive '/backup/vzdump-101.dat' (/mnt/vzsnap/images/101)
Nov 06 05:00:04 INFO: qemu-server.conf
Nov 06 05:00:04 INFO: vm-101-disk.qcow2
Nov 06 05:11:28 INFO: Total bytes written: 8761548800 (8.2GiB, 13MiB/s)
Nov 06 05:11:28 INFO: file size 2.36GB
Nov 06 05:11:33 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" successfully removed
Nov 06 05:11:33 INFO: Finished Backup of VM 101 (00:11:31)

No emails but i can enable it.
 
This morning, the email after the backup :

Code: 
 Detailed backup logs:
   vzdump --quiet --snapshot --compress --dumpdir /backup --mailto [U]sanka@xxxxxx.fr[/U] --all
101: Nov 07 05:00:01 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101 (qemu)
101: Nov 07 05:00:02 INFO: status = running
101: Nov 07 05:00:02 INFO: creating lvm snapshot of /dev/mapper/pve-data ('/dev/pve/vzsnap')
101: Nov 07 05:00:02 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" created
101: Nov 07 05:00:02 INFO: mounting lvm snapshot
101: Nov 07 05:00:04 INFO: creating archive '/backup/vzdump-101.dat' (/mnt/vzsnap/images/101)
101: Nov 07 05:00:04 INFO: qemu-server.conf
101: Nov 07 05:00:04 INFO: vm-101-disk.qcow2
101: Nov 07 05:10:37 INFO: Total bytes written: 8793456640 (8.2GiB, 14MiB/s)
101: Nov 07 05:10:37 INFO: file size 2.36GB
101: Nov 07 05:10:41 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" successfully removed
101: Nov 07 05:10:41 INFO: Finished Backup of VM 101 (00:10:40) 

102: Nov 07 05:10:41 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 102 (qemu)
102: Nov 07 05:10:42 INFO: status = running
102: Nov 07 05:10:42 INFO: creating lvm snapshot of /dev/mapper/pve-data ('/dev/pve/vzsnap')
102: Nov 07 05:10:42 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" created
102: Nov 07 05:10:42 INFO: mounting lvm snapshot
102: Nov 07 05:10:44 INFO: creating archive '/backup/vzdump-102.dat' (/mnt/vzsnap/images/102)
102: Nov 07 05:10:44 INFO: qemu-server.conf
102: Nov 07 05:10:44 INFO: vm-102-disk.qcow2
102: Nov 07 05:19:16 INFO: Total bytes written: 4767334400 (4.5GiB, 8.9MiB/s)
102: Nov 07 05:19:16 INFO: file size 2.38GB
102: Nov 07 05:19:20 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" successfully removed
102: Nov 07 05:19:20 INFO: Finished Backup of VM 102 (00:08:39) 

103: Nov 07 05:19:20 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 103 (qemu)
103: Nov 07 05:19:21 INFO: status = running
103: Nov 07 05:19:21 INFO: creating lvm snapshot of /dev/mapper/pve-data ('/dev/pve/vzsnap')
103: Nov 07 05:19:21 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" created
103: Nov 07 05:19:21 INFO: mounting lvm snapshot
103: Nov 07 05:19:22 INFO: creating archive '/backup/vzdump-103.dat' (/mnt/vzsnap/images/103)
103: Nov 07 05:19:22 INFO: qemu-server.conf
103: Nov 07 05:19:22 INFO: vm-103-disk.qcow2
103: Nov 07 05:24:04 INFO: Total bytes written: 3302113280 (3.1GiB, 12MiB/s)
103: Nov 07 05:24:04 INFO: file size 1.46GB
103: Nov 07 05:24:08 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" successfully removed
103: Nov 07 05:24:08 INFO: Finished Backup of VM 103 (00:04:48)
Theses days everything goes right. So if the server goes down later, i will be back :p

Thanks for all guys. You have done a great work!
 
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