Backup problems with Win10 VM

[nash]

Hi Guys,

I'm a but stumped that this is failing to do a backup of my VM. I'd like to upgrade the proxmox server and have it run with the latest version, cannot understand why its failing. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Naresh


INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 111 --remove 0 --mode stop --compress lzo --storage BACKUPSZFS --node girgit
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 111 (qemu)
INFO: status = running
INFO: update VM 111: -lock backup
INFO: backup mode: stop
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: stopping vm
INFO: creating archive '/jungle/BACKUPS/dump/vzdump-qemu-111-2017_06_10-17_25_34.vma.lzo'
INFO: starting kvm to execute backup task
INFO: started backup task 'bf65cd04-da87-45ce-a717-ad281e12c534'
INFO: resume VM
INFO: status: 0% (368443392/322122547200), sparse 0% (70270976), duration 3, 122/99 MB/s
INFO: status: 1% (3228237824/322122547200), sparse 0% (94613504), duration 341, 8/8 MB/s
INFO: status: 2% (6465912832/322122547200), sparse 0% (173203456), duration 616, 11/11 MB/s
INFO: status: 3% (9671999488/322122547200), sparse 0% (195076096), duration 823, 15/15 MB/s
INFO: status: 4% (12916883456/322122547200), sparse 0% (291405824), duration 963, 23/22 MB/s
INFO: status: 5% (16119300096/322122547200), sparse 0% (446070784), duration 1076, 28/26 MB/s
INFO: status: 6% (19340787712/322122547200), sparse 0% (619515904), duration 1293, 14/14 MB/s
INFO: status: 7% (22555852800/322122547200), sparse 0% (681000960), duration 1588, 10/10 MB/s
INFO: status: 8% (25777995776/322122547200), sparse 0% (687915008), duration 1952, 8/8 MB/s
INFO: status: 9% (28993912832/322122547200), sparse 0% (701120512), duration 2201, 12/12 MB/s
INFO: status: 10% (32213237760/322122547200), sparse 0% (754429952), duration 2447, 13/12 MB/s
INFO: status: 11% (35444555776/322122547200), sparse 0% (783704064), duration 2665, 14/14 MB/s
INFO: status: 12% (38698418176/322122547200), sparse 0% (838111232), duration 2910, 13/13 MB/s
INFO: status: 13% (41922199552/322122547200), sparse 0% (974053376), duration 3198, 11/10 MB/s
INFO: status: 14% (45191266304/322122547200), sparse 0% (977608704), duration 3284, 38/37 MB/s
INFO: status: 15% (48327098368/322122547200), sparse 0% (987377664), duration 3404, 26/26 MB/s
INFO: status: 16% (51543867392/322122547200), sparse 0% (995717120), duration 3599, 16/16 MB/s
INFO: status: 17% (54781607936/322122547200), sparse 0% (1035575296), duration 3717, 27/27 MB/s
INFO: status: 18% (57989136384/322122547200), sparse 0% (1049350144), duration 3869, 21/21 MB/s
INFO: status: 19% (61225762816/322122547200), sparse 0% (1054109696), duration 4064, 16/16 MB/s
INFO: status: 20% (64428900352/322122547200), sparse 0% (1070063616), duration 4260, 16/16 MB/s
INFO: status: 21% (67694886912/322122547200), sparse 0% (1089667072), duration 4516, 12/12 MB/s
INFO: status: 21% (68182999040/322122547200), sparse 0% (1089933312), duration 4606, 5/5 MB/s
ERROR: job failed with err -5 - Input/output error
INFO: aborting backup job
INFO: vm is online again after 4941 seconds
ERROR: Backup of VM 111 failed - job failed with err -5 - Input/output error
INFO: Backup job finished with errors
TASK ERROR: job errors

 

[dietmar]

Seems to be a problem with the disk (Input/output error). What kind of disk (storage/format) is that?

 

[nash]

Hi Dietmar, first a huge thanks for your response. The hardware is 5 4tb enterprise hard disks running zfs. When I'm in front of the system, I can send you an image of the drives. This was assembled by me 3 years back and has chugged till now. Is there any way that I can backup this system?

 

[dietmar]

What format do you use for the disk? The zfspool driver, or qcow2 files?

 

[nash]

Hi Dietmar,

The installation was done by me using zfspool driver. This is from before the time that proxmox supported zfs and I've not upgraded the system since then.

So today, I've done a system backup using win10 tools onto a network drive. Now the only thing that remains is to know if something like this could work or not. I'm planning on shutting down the Win10 VM, then making another one and then using the backup to try and restore the Win10VM. If that works, and MSFT gives me an activation based on the older Win10Vm, then I'm fine, and then I'll do a complete reinstall and revamp of the Host machine, including a hardware upgrade to the latest proxmox.

Anyone has suggestions or gremlins to avoid?

 

[nash]

Hi Dietmar,

The basic system was win8 and it was upgraded to win10 online.

Nope, the basic file system is zfs, but for the Win10 VM, I'm using qcow2 as you can see below:

 

[nash]

Hi Dietmar,

I think that I've located the problem to a dead drive. One of the 6 drives is dead... and thus the system is running under duress. I'll try to check it tomorrow morning. Please don't worry about the issues since now a major surgery of the system will ensue!! All the backups are already made so if all goes well, the system will be up and running soon.

Thanks a bunch.
N