OpenVz Snapshot work from GUI but not from Vzdump command

krok

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Hi,

i have upgrade to proxmox 2 Rc1, i have test a vzdump dump in command line :

# vzdump 102 -mode snapshot
INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 102 --mode snapshot
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 102 (openvz)
INFO: CTID 102 exist mounted running
INFO: status = running
INFO: mode failure - unable to detect lvm volume group
INFO: trying 'suspend' mode instead
INFO: backup mode: suspend


but this work fine in GUI :

INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 102 --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage backup --node phy1
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 102 (openvz)
INFO: CTID 102 exist mounted running
INFO: status = running
INFO: backup mode: snapshot
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: creating lvm snapshot of /dev/mapper/pve-data ('/dev/pve/vzsnap-phy1-0')
INFO: Logical volume "vzsnap-phy1-0" created
INFO: creating archive '/backup/pve//dump/vzdump-openvz-102-2012_02_17-20_59_29.tar.lzo'

an idea ? thanks for your help.

# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 2.0-28 (pve-manager/2.0/30bb4d33)
running kernel: 2.6.32-7-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.0-60
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-55
pve-kernel-2.6.32-7-pve: 2.6.32-60
lvm2: 2.02.88-2pve1
clvm: 2.02.88-2pve1
corosync-pve: 1.4.1-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-1
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.8-3
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.7-1
pve-cluster: 1.0-22
qemu-server: 2.0-17
pve-firmware: 1.0-15
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-14
libpve-access-control: 1.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 2.0-11
vncterm: 1.0-2
vzctl: 3.0.30-2pve1
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.12-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.0-3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
 
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You run totally different commands:

# vzdump 102 -mode snapshot

and

INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 102 --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage backup --node phy1

So what is the question?

Note: try "--storage backup"
 
# vzdump 102 --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage backup --node phy1
INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 102 --mode snapshot --compress lzo --node phy1 --storage backup
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 102 (openvz)
INFO: CTID 102 exist mounted running
INFO: status = running
INFO: mode failure - unable to detect lvm volume group
INFO: trying 'suspend' mode instead
INFO: backup mode: suspend
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: starting first sync /var/lib/vz/private/102/ to /backup/pve//dump/vzdump-openvz-102-2012_02_18-21_14_23.tmp

why the lvm volume was not detected with the vzdump command line ?
 
Problem corrected with last update :

root@phy1:~# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 2.0-38 (pve-manager/2.0/af81df02)
running kernel: 2.6.32-7-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.0-60
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-55
pve-kernel-2.6.32-7-pve: 2.6.32-60
lvm2: 2.02.88-2pve1
clvm: 2.02.88-2pve1
corosync-pve: 1.4.1-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-2
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.8-3
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.7-1
pve-cluster: 1.0-23
qemu-server: 2.0-25
pve-firmware: 1.0-15
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-17
libpve-access-control: 1.0-17
libpve-storage-perl: 2.0-12
vncterm: 1.0-2
vzctl: 3.0.30-2pve1
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.12-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.0-5
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1