[SOLVED] Delete stuck snapshot

[krystofr]

Hi there,

I have an old snapshot on my system, which won't delete. It's not being used and he status says 'delete' but is appears stuck. If I try and delete it again in the GUI the delete fails, and the VM is locked.
I have to unlock the vm manually on the command line.


Could someone tell me how to manually delete the snapshot from the command line?

Thank you in advance

 

[fiona]

Hi,
is there any output in the task log? What kind of disks are/were attached to the VM?

With qm delsnapshot <ID> <snapname> --force you can force removal of the snapshot from the configuration, but it can happen that snapshots on the disks remain.

 

[krystofr]

HI Fabian,

Thanks for the response. Sorry I should have included the message from the task log. It is this, TASK ERROR: zfs error: could not find any snapshots to destroy; check snapshot names.

So I'm assuming it was correctly removed from the disk, but not from the configuration, so I'll give the qm command above ago.

 

[krystofr]

I ran qm delsnapshot <ID> <snapname> --force, and was given this error msg: zfs error: could not find any snapshots to destroy; check snapshot names

However the problem is resolved, and it has gone from the gui. thanks so much!

 

[erikf]

I also had this problem and the --force switch helped me. Thanks

 

[Hanzl]

still valid on pve 8.2, thanks

 

[idoc]

still on 8.2.4