VM Stopped During Backup Due to NFS Share Out of Space

Lonnie

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We're using Proxmox 4.4-5, and one of our virtual machines (vm 103) stopped during a backup.

In the attached log see this line and the others lines around it:
Jan 4 23:45:34 proxmox2 vzdump[45375]: ERROR: Backup of VM 103 failed - VM 103 not running

Although our NFS share itself had plenty of space, its root partition (on another harddrive than where the NFS is) ran out of space. I think this is what ultimately cause the backup to fail.

However, the log says the backup failed because the VM 103 is not running. Well, it was running during 94% of the backup and I do not know what stopped it.

The reason I'm posting this, is because I do not understand why VM 103 stopped. To me it seems that the NFS share running out of space is what actually cause the backup to fail and that this also is somehow the cause of why the VM stopped.

When an NFS share's server runs out of space that should not cause Proxmox to stop the virtual machine. Perhaps something else caused this, but I just thought I'd report the way it seems along with the actual log.
 
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