VM backup error - how to resolve?

moose

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Nov 19, 2017
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Bavarian Alps
Hi folks,

today I tried to backup one of my VMs with the PVE UI. I tried it several time, but the result is always the same:

2019-08-15 13:23:12 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 241 (qemu)
2019-08-15 13:23:12 INFO: status = running
2019-08-15 13:23:15 INFO: update VM 241: -lock backup
2019-08-15 13:23:15 INFO: backup mode: stop
2019-08-15 13:23:15 INFO: ionice priority: 7
2019-08-15 13:23:15 INFO: VM Name: mx1
2019-08-15 13:23:15 INFO: include disk 'scsi0' 'local-lvm:vm-241-disk-0' 10G
2019-08-15 13:23:15 INFO: stopping vm
2019-08-15 13:23:19 INFO: creating archive '/var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-241-2019_08_15-13_23_12.vma.lzo'
2019-08-15 13:23:19 INFO: starting kvm to execute backup task
2019-08-15 13:23:22 INFO: started backup task '6523cb0e-380d-42a5-acd5-21aea8b1573f'
2019-08-15 13:23:22 INFO: resuming VM again after 7 seconds
2019-08-15 13:23:25 INFO: status: 2% (292683776/10737418240), sparse 1% (187260928), duration 3, read/write 97/35 MB/s
2019-08-15 13:23:28 INFO: status: 4% (528351232/10737418240), sparse 2% (313384960), duration 6, read/write 78/36 MB/s
2019-08-15 13:23:31 INFO: status: 7% (774963200/10737418240), sparse 4% (440422400), duration 9, read/write 82/39 MB/s
2019-08-15 13:23:34 INFO: status: 8% (898170880/10737418240), sparse 4% (447049728), duration 12, read/write 41/38 MB/s
2019-08-15 13:23:37 INFO: status: 9% (1030094848/10737418240), sparse 4% (461713408), duration 15, read/write 43/39 MB/s
2019-08-15 13:23:39 INFO: status: 10% (1077673984/10737418240), sparse 4% (465133568), duration 17, read/write 23/22 MB/s
2019-08-15 13:23:39 ERROR: job failed with err -5 - Input/output error
2019-08-15 13:23:39 INFO: aborting backup job
2019-08-15 13:23:42 ERROR: Backup of VM 241 failed - job failed with err -5 - Input/output error

Where can I get more informations and how can I fix/resolve it?

Greetinx,

moose
 
No, sadly. Backups of others VMs to the same storage are running fine w/o any error. Only this one fails. Thanks for your reply, dietmar!
 
If you have enough space while the backup is running, what about your LVM on which the VM lies? Is there any error shown in dmesg or messages?
 

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