Backup: Windows (7/2008) KVM does not shutdown

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adonis404

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Hi,

I've already looked around in this forum for posts that issue this problem. Nevertheless none of the suggested solutions work for us.

We have several backup jobs defined, whereas each shall backup all machines on a cluster node.
The linux kvms shut down properly. The windows 7 and windows 2008 sometimes do but often not. :mad:

We have already enabled the policy: "Allow system to be shut down without having to log on".
And the setting "action what to do if the shutdown button is pressed" is also set as proposed in the FAQ.

Another strange behaviour we often realize is, that we need to click the "Shutdown" button in the webbfrontend twice. Sometimes we also have to use the "Open VNC console" popup before to be able to shutdown.


Currently 3-5 sensitive machines are not backuped at night :(

Infos:
pve-manager/1.9/6567
Linux 2.6.32-6-pve #1 SMP

Any ideas?!
 
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Oh I just found in the manual:

"suspend" mode
For OpenVZ, this mode uses rsync to copy the VM to a temporary location (see option --tmpdir). Then the VM is suspended and a second rsync copies changed files. After that, the VM is started (resume) again. This results in a minimal downtime, but needs additional space to hold the VM copy. For QemuServer, this mode work like "stop" mode, but uses suspend/resume instead of stop/start.

"snapshot" mode
This mode uses LVM2 snapshots. There is no downtime, but snapshot mode needs LVM2 and some free space on the corresponding volume group to create the LVM snapshot.

For snapshot we do not have enough space on some clusternodes.

But suspend Qemu could be even a better solution for us, I'll give it a try!
 
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