Problem with backups. Ever growing dat file.

looks like an nfs problem - please can you test using another backup storage.

Hi Dietmar,

Here my findings:
I used a USB Drive as an alternative storage and backup went fine (tried it a couple of times). So I guess you are right and the problem must be related to NFS. I will check it out ...
In any case my SBS 2008 keeps crashing during backup (Bluescreen). I was wondering If you or anybody else has experience with SBS 2008 as a VM? I use VIRTIO driver and there are 1 Socket/ 2 Cores assigned to the VM. Can that cause the problem?

Since backup takes such a long time I was wondering if I can improve the time by adding another hard drive and use it for --tmpdir. Or is there a better way to improve performance?

Kind regards
B.

Kind regards
 
After spending more time this weekend on this issue here is what I figured out:

Since every time I backed up a vm my SBS 2008 showed me a blue screen I decided to reinstall the complete pve server this weekend. I thought maybe I miss configured something. But still SBS kept crashing. Even when I tried to backup a complete different VM :(. So I replaced the VIRTIO of all my VM's with the IDE driver and ever since backup works fine...:D NFS is fine too.
I can not tell exactly what the problem was. :confused:
Just sharing the information.

kind regards