vzdump remove 0

M

MaFL

Renowned Member
Jun 19, 2008
18
1
68
Hi,

My old backups will never be deleted because of "--remove 0" in the vzdump call.
Where does this setting come from?

Thanks!
Matt

Code: 
INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 100 [B]--remove 0[/B] --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage saturn-500GB --node blade5
ERROR: Backup of VM 100 failed - only 2 backup(s) allowed - please consider to remove old backup files.
INFO: Backup job finished with errors
TASK ERROR: job errors

Code: 
/etc/pve/storage.cfg

nfs: saturn-500gb    path /mnt/pve/saturn-500gb
    server saturn.local
    export /export/500gb
    options vers=3
    content iso,vztmpl,backup
    [B]maxfiles 2[/B]
 
Remove that manually in /etc/cron.d/vzdump. That seem to be a setting from older version (update does not remove that).
 
dietmar said:
Why do you think so?
Click to expand...

You get an error when you click backup now, I take it that's what he means by a manual backup.

INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 306 --remove 0 --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage Backup_kvm1 --node kvm1
ERROR: Backup of VM 306 failed - only 1 backup(s) allowed - please consider to remove old backup files.
INFO: Backup job finished with errors
TASK ERROR: job errors
Click to expand...

However if you edit your storage setting for the device you are trying to do the manual backup to, and say it can have "Max Backups 2" or more it will proceed. So the manual backup does not override that per storage device setting which can be confusing.
 
Last edited:
Erk said:
You get an error when you click backup now, I take it that's what he means by a manual backup.
Click to expand...
Exactly. "Backup now" will fail if over the limit of the storage.
It won´t delete because of "--remove 0"
 
MaFL said:
Exactly. "Backup now" will fail if over the limit of the storage.
It won´t delete because of "--remove 0"
Click to expand...

Did you edit your storage to allow more than one backup, as I mentioned above?

It worked for me, "Backup now" works fine after that.
 
Erk said:
Did you edit your storage to allow more than one backup, as I mentioned above?

It worked for me, "Backup now" works fine after that.
Click to expand...
Yes it works... until I reach the new limit :eek:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom