Server hangs during backup

johndoe0021

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Nov 14, 2022
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Hello, we have 3 proxmox servers, we take weekly backups of our containers on an external drive using NFS. The first 2 server's backups are successfully being stored. However, the 3rd server seems to get stuck while taking a backup.

Here is the backup job logs, we had added a write bandwidth limit of 10000 KB/s, it seemed to fix the problem for a few weeks

```
INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 101 105 106 107 108 109 111 112 103 --storage externalBackups --mode snapshot --node rns-server2 --compress lzo --prune-backups 'keep-weekly=2' --mailto yasin@rnssol.com --mailnotification always --quiet 1
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101 (lxc)
INFO: Backup started at 2022-11-12 23:59:00
INFO: status = running
INFO: CT Name: wazuh-siem
INFO: including mount point rootfs ('/') in backup
INFO: backup mode: snapshot
INFO: bandwidth limit: 10000 KB/s
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: create storage snapshot 'vzdump'
Logical volume "snap_vm-101-disk-0_vzdump" created.
INFO: creating vzdump archive '/mnt/pve/externalBackups/dump/vzdump-lxc-101-2022_11_12-23_59_00.tar.lzo'
INFO: Total bytes written: 8601344000 (8.1GiB, 9.7MiB/s)
INFO: archive file size: 4.12GB
INFO: prune older backups with retention: keep-weekly=2
INFO: removing backup 'externalBackups:backup/vzdump-lxc-101-2022_10_08-23_59_00.tar.lzo'
INFO: pruned 1 backup(s) not covered by keep-retention policy
INFO: cleanup temporary 'vzdump' snapshot
Logical volume "snap_vm-101-disk-0_vzdump" successfully removed
INFO: Finished Backup of VM 101 (00:14:20)
INFO: Backup finished at 2022-11-13 00:13:20
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 103 (lxc)
INFO: Backup started at 2022-11-13 00:13:20
INFO: status = running
INFO: CT Name: troves-testing-Sevser
INFO: including mount point rootfs ('/') in backup
INFO: backup mode: snapshot
INFO: bandwidth limit: 10000 KB/s
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: create storage snapshot 'vzdump'
WARNING: You have not turned on protection against thin pools running out of space.
WARNING: Set activation/thin_pool_autoextend_threshold below 100 to trigger automatic extension of thin pools before they get full.
Logical volume "snap_vm-103-disk-0_vzdump" created.
WARNING: Sum of all thin volume sizes (2.56 TiB) exceeds the size of thin pool pve2/data2 and the size of whole volume group (<1.82 TiB).
INFO: creating vzdump archive '/mnt/pve/externalBackups/dump/vzdump-lxc-103-2022_11_13-00_13_20.tar.lzo'

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The journalctl logs of the day of the backup are attached in the file, it doesn't show any significant errors which we can debug, help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 

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