[SOLVED] PVE not creating scheduled backups

[omcom]

My PVE 8.0.3 standalone node not creating scheduled backups. When I run the job manually, backup is created withou any problems. It seems that only scheduler not working. I tried to restart cron service but without luck, I am not aware that I make any changes that could have any impact to scheduling jobs. I know I can try to reboot node but it's quite tricky because it is running many VMs.

 

[UdoB]

not creating scheduled backups.

The scheduler is running? Like so:

~# systemctl  status pvescheduler
● pvescheduler.service - Proxmox VE scheduler
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pvescheduler.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2025-06-27 07:01:20 CEST; 1 week 3 days ago

     CGroup: /system.slice/pvescheduler.service
             └─3121834 pvescheduler

Jul 07 03:15:39 pvei pvescheduler[1882039]: INFO: Starting Backup of VM 2402 (qemu)
Jul 07 03:15:40 pvei pvescheduler[1882039]: VM 2402 started with PID 1892369.

And to state the obvious: 8.03 is really old. Please upgrade and try again...

 

[omcom]

Thank you, I didn't know that task is managed by pvescheduler not cron. I found zombie process which did not allow pvescheduler to start and restart.