PVE freezes during NFS backup

[JustaGuy]

Backup storage is FreeNAS zfs w/ highest compression & dedup on, in a Virtualbox sparse allocated default hdd.

VM 100 is a firewall/gateway & it keeps dropping the internet connection, perhaps affecting the NFS share's availability (my guess- I dunno).

PVE aptitude upgrade is current.

 

[manu]

Hej Justaguy
THe simple question is: is the FreeNAS NFS storage actually running when the Freeze appears ? Are you able to write to the NFS exports from another machine when the freeze happens ?
From what I know the FreeNAS folds usually advise against installing FreeNAS virtualized( https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...nas-in-production-as-a-virtual-machine.12484/) , and VirtualBox is certainly not the platform to run reliable server virtualization, as it targets Desktop Virtualization.

 

[JustaGuy]

Well, it may be a less-than-ideal setup, but I did get an email reporting that the job had finished successfully. Being that it's the only way I can make use of the disk space I have available, I'll keep with it. I'll just have to deal with the service dropouts while it runs.

If I were to do it some other way, the only way I'm aware of to use the space on my Windows box would be to pay $40 for HaneWIN NFS server- an option I can't afford.