Journal gets spammed with "pbs_lxc: error fetching datastores" when PBS is not running

[saldorin]

Hi there,
i've set up PBS as a VM in my Homelab to Backup VMs/CTs to an external drive. Works fine and all, but now i notice, that pvestatd spams the journal with
`pvestatd[2441]: pbs_lxc: error fetching datastores - 500 Can't connect to 192.168.1.24:8007 (No route to host)` every ten seconds when the VM is not running (i shut it down when the drive is not connected).

Is there a way to exclude this from pvestatd? Or to decrease the check frequency at least? I haven't found anything in the pvestat documentation so far :/

 

[Onslow]

I seem to remember a similar question recently. AFAIR, a solution is to disable(?) this datastore after the backup job and enable it only before the next backup.

 

[saldorin]

Thank you! That indeed stops the journal spam - too obvious i guess ^^
Of course not the prettiest solution, but workable for me, as i don't need to update the offsite backup too often.
But maybe someone has a more elegant solution yet

 

[UdoB]

But maybe someone has a more elegant solution

Well, I took the script from this post:

• https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/a...x-host-depending-on-host-availability.146105/

Now I can turn on my cold-standby PBS's (some by BIOS "Wake up at date/time", some simply manually) and a few minutes later the corresponding storage is enabled and usable. The same works backwards: shutdown a PBS and the storage gets disabled.

Works for me