Couldn't Take Backup when QEMU Agent is Running

nabor

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I recently migrated a CentOS7.9 VM from PVE 5.4-15 to 6.4-7. The QEMU guest agent was not enabled on the old platform, but I enabled it on the new platform.

However, I found if I enable the QEMU agent, the backup would cause the fs freeze forever even I manually terminate the backup.

Please see the backup log below:
Code:
INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 100 --storage backup --compress zstd --mode snapshot --remove 0 --node prox1
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 100 (qemu)
INFO: Backup started at 2021-06-10 22:13:33
INFO: status = running
INFO: VM Name: TWGDev01
INFO: include disk 'sata0' 'local-data:vm-100-disk-0' 140G
INFO: backup mode: snapshot
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: creating vzdump archive '/backup/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2021_06_10-22_13_33.vma.zst'
INFO: issuing guest-agent 'fs-freeze' command

Once the backup was kicked off, I couldn't issue any commands in VM. How to troubleshoot and address this issue?
 
However, I found if I enable the QEMU agent,
...and you actually did install it inside the guest?

If not: it may take long to get a timeout...

Best regards
 

Thanks for sharing. I couldn't find a solution from those threads either. Tried yum upgrade, but doesn't solve the issue.

Another Centos7.9 just works fine. Can't figure out what was the root cause.