[SOLVED] garbage collection spam logs by repeatedly failing due to running backup

grin

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There is a backup taking 12h+, which is okay. GC is daily.

Now, GC isn't happy when trying to clean up files of an active backup:

Code:
2020-08-23T18:34:00+02:00: starting garbage collection on store pub
2020-08-23T18:34:00+02:00: task triggered by schedule 'daily'
2020-08-23T18:34:00+02:00: Start GC phase1 (mark used chunks)
2020-08-23T18:34:06+02:00: TASK ERROR: unable to access chunk fa39eafd5ae27f5fec4caf87bd18b37fdd0825e39a10557d5dbe5ef874ed66f5, required by "/mnt/datastore/pub/ct/999/2020-08-19T02:31:19Z/root.pxar.didx" - update atime failed for chunk "/mnt/datastore/pub/.chunks/fa39/fa39eafd5ae27f5fec4caf87bd18b37fdd0825e39a10557d5dbe5ef874ed66f5" - ENOENT: No such file or directory

And this is repeated every minute, for 10+ hours. Also, UI cannot filter messages by message content, or backup name (eg "ct/999"), so searching requires fiddling in /var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks/.../

Probably not intended as such.
 

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