vzdump not working/starting

kumarullal

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Jun 17, 2009
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I have proxmox 1.4 installed on a 32 bit debian. Everything was working fine until recently I noticed the cron job was not working. I chaged the cron job to start right away so that I could see the logs. The logs showed the cron job starting, but nothing was happening. Then I tried it manually.

vzdump --quiet --compress --snapshot --dumpdir /var/lib/vz/dump/ 1000

As soon as I give the command the cursor comes back to the the same directory location and blinks as if nothing happened.
Surprisingly, if I make a mistake in typing any vzdump parameters, it give me the suggestions for the usage.
I also tried /usr/sbin/vzdump but with no luck.
I dont know what went wrong.
Please help.
 
I tried vzdump without --quiet --compress --snapshot parameters and it worked. Earlier it used to work with all these parameters. What might have happened? Please help.