External Hard Drives Included in Backups Despite Being Excluded

Cube

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May 17, 2026
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I passed two external hard drives to an OMV VM with the following commands:

Code:
/sbin/qm set 100 -scsi2 /dev/disk/by-id/ID

And i excluded the disks from backups:

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However the backup job failed with the following in the log:
Code:
INFO:   0% (125.2 MiB of 4.1 TiB) in 3s, read: 41.8 MiB/s, write: 41.7 MiB/s
INFO:   1% (42.0 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 17m 44s, read: 40.5 MiB/s, write: 40.4 MiB/s
INFO:   2% (84.1 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 35m 11s, read: 41.1 MiB/s, write: 41.0 MiB/s
INFO:   3% (126.1 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 52m 54s, read: 40.5 MiB/s, write: 40.5 MiB/s
INFO:   4% (168.1 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 1h 10m 37s, read: 40.5 MiB/s, write: 40.5 MiB/s
INFO:   5% (210.1 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 1h 28m 20s, read: 40.5 MiB/s, write: 40.5 MiB/s
INFO:   6% (252.1 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 1h 46m 5s, read: 40.4 MiB/s, write: 40.4 MiB/s
INFO:   7% (294.2 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 2h 3m 49s, read: 40.4 MiB/s, write: 40.4 MiB/s
INFO:   8% (336.2 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 2h 21m 32s, read: 40.5 MiB/s, write: 40.4 MiB/s
INFO:   9% (378.2 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 2h 39m 15s, read: 40.5 MiB/s, write: 40.5 MiB/s
INFO:  10% (420.2 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 2h 56m 58s, read: 40.5 MiB/s, write: 40.5 MiB/s
zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device
INFO:  10% (460.4 GiB of 4.1 TiB) in 3h 14m 1s, read: 40.3 MiB/s, write: 40.3 MiB/s
ERROR: vma_queue_write: write error - Broken pipe
INFO: aborting backup job

When I navigate to Job Details I can see that all of the disks are included in the backup job:

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Am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance,

Cube
 
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This is resolved
It appears that you may need to restart the VM in order for the backup=0 to apply under VM > Hardware
 
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