PBS Backup issue on only 1 node out of 3

lucid13

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Hi All,

I've been looking for a while but haven't found any resolution to my issue. I have 3 separate proxmox nodes on 3 machines. I set up a PBS instance on a 4th machine (Synology NAS). Right now 2 of my nodes back up with no issue. The 3rd node does not back up and is giving errors. The only difference with this 3rd instance is that I have Proxmox running on a ZFS pool. I'm running Proxmox 8.4.14 on all nodes and PBS 3.3.3. Here's what I'm getting as an error on the first LXC (I've tried starting from the 2nd but get the same errors).

INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 --prune-backups 'keep-last=3' --node pve3 --storage pbs --fleecing 0 --notes-template '{{guestname}}' --all 0 --mode snapshot
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 300 (lxc)
INFO: Backup started at 2025-12-19 14:39:40
INFO: status = running
INFO: CT Name: redacted
INFO: including mount point rootfs ('/') in backup
INFO: including mount point mp0 ('data') in backup
INFO: found old vzdump snapshot (force removal)
INFO: backup mode: snapshot
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: suspend vm to make snapshot
INFO: create storage snapshot 'vzdump'
INFO: resume vm
INFO: guest is online again after 5 seconds
INFO: creating Proxmox Backup Server archive 'ct/300/2025-12-19T19:39:40Z'
INFO: set max number of entries in memory for file-based backups to 1048576
INFO: run: lxc-usernsexec -m u:0:100000:65536 -m g:0:100000:65536 -- /usr/bin/proxmox-backup-client backup --crypt-mode=none pct.conf:/var/tmp/vzdumptmp34244_300/etc/vzdump/pct.conf root.pxar:/mnt/vzsnap0 --include-dev /mnt/vzsnap0/./ --include-dev /mnt/vzsnap0/.data --skip-lost-and-found --exclude=/tmp/?* --exclude=/var/tmp/?* --exclude=/var/run/?*.pid --backup-type ct --backup-id 300 --backup-time 1766173180 --entries-max 1048576 --repository backup@pbs@192.168.1.116:synology_nfs
INFO: Error: fstat "/mnt/vzsnap0/.data" failed - ENOENT: No such file or directory
umount: /mnt/vzsnap0data: no mount point specified.
command 'umount -l -d /mnt/vzsnap0data' failed: exit code 32
ERROR: Backup of VM 300 failed - command 'lxc-usernsexec -m u:0:100000:65536 -m g:0:100000:65536 -- /usr/bin/proxmox-backup-client backup '--crypt-mode=none' pct.conf:/var/tmp/vzdumptmp34244_300/etc/vzdump/pct.conf root.pxar:/mnt/vzsnap0 --include-dev /mnt/vzsnap0/./ --include-dev /mnt/vzsnap0/.data --skip-lost-and-found '--exclude=/tmp/?*' '--exclude=/var/tmp/?*' '--exclude=/var/run/?*.pid' --backup-type ct --backup-id 300 --backup-time 1766173180 --entries-max 1048576 --repository backup@pbs@192.168.1.116:synology_nfs' failed: exit code 255


Any help would be much appreciated!
 
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that's a hell of an output... not sure about everyone else but I really like seeing each INFO output in it's own line...

anyway, I see: fstat "/mnt/vzsnap0/.data" failed - ENOENT: No such file or directory
 
Sorry I fixed the formatting.

Is there a reason that "/mnt/vzsnap0/.data" wouldn't be created during backup? I don't have any issues with my other nodes.