Why does 'vma' consistenly fail when backing up VM Templates? I have over 1T of space available in /var/lib/vz/dump so not sure what's going on here. Tried to find some documentation/man page but only find a basic blurb about it here https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VMA nothing about details for the cli arguments.
I have several Proxmox servers with this issue and it only seems to happend when 'template: 1' is set in the /etc/pve/nodes/$hostname/qemu-server/$vm.conf. The problem is that this process hangs and then none of my other VMs get dumped until I kill the vma process. This really messes up timing when running the dumps at night because I have to essentially have to continue backing-up during work hours causing performance issues.
This is how I started vmdump from cron. It started at 2AM and when I logged in at 7:30am vzdump was stitting there so I killed it with CTRL+C:
This is the vma error:
I have several Proxmox servers with this issue and it only seems to happend when 'template: 1' is set in the /etc/pve/nodes/$hostname/qemu-server/$vm.conf. The problem is that this process hangs and then none of my other VMs get dumped until I kill the vma process. This really messes up timing when running the dumps at night because I have to essentially have to continue backing-up during work hours causing performance issues.
This is how I started vmdump from cron. It started at 2AM and when I logged in at 7:30am vzdump was stitting there so I killed it with CTRL+C:
Code:
vzdump $vm --dumpdir /var/lib/vz/dump/ --mailto root --compress lzo --mailnotification failure --ionice 3 --mode suspend --maxfiles 3This is the vma error:
Code:
# cat /var/log/vzdump/qemu-100.log
May 03 02:00:05 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 100 (qemu)
May 03 02:00:05 INFO: status = stopped
May 03 02:00:05 INFO: update VM 100: -lock backup
May 03 02:00:05 INFO: backup mode: stop
May 03 02:00:05 INFO: ionice priority: 3
May 03 02:00:07 INFO: creating archive '/var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2015_05_03-02_00_05.vma.lzo'
May 03 02:00:07 INFO: starting template backup
May 03 02:00:07 INFO: /usr/bin/vma create -v -c /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2015_05_03-02_00_05.tmp/qemu-server.conf exec:lzop>/var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2015_05_03-02_00_05.vma.dat drive-virtio0=/var/lib/ssd/images/100/base-100-disk-1.qcow2
May 03 02:00:07 INFO: progress 0% 0/34359738368 0
May 03 02:00:10 INFO: progress 1% 343605248/34359738368 254586880
May 03 02:00:15 INFO: progress 2% 687210496/34359738368 307601408
May 03 02:00:19 INFO: progress 3% 1030815744/34359738368 449925120
May 03 02:00:19 INFO: progress 4% 1374420992/34359738368 775675904
May 03 02:00:20 INFO: progress 5% 1718026240/34359738368 1119272960
May 03 02:00:20 INFO: progress 6% 2061631488/34359738368 1462878208
May 03 02:00:20 INFO: progress 7% 2405236736/34359738368 1805918208
May 03 02:00:21 INFO: progress 8% 2748841984/34359738368 2149462016
May 03 02:00:21 INFO: progress 9% 3092381696/34359738368 2492985344
May 03 02:00:22 INFO: progress 10% 3435986944/34359738368 2836582400
May 03 02:00:22 INFO: progress 11% 3779592192/34359738368 3179868160
May 03 02:00:22 INFO: progress 12% 4123197440/34359738368 3523473408
May 03 02:00:23 INFO: progress 13% 4466802688/34359738368 3867078656
May 03 02:00:26 INFO: progress 14% 4810407936/34359738368 4044939264
May 03 02:00:32 INFO: progress 15% 5154013184/34359738368 4046434304
May 03 02:00:35 INFO: progress 16% 5497618432/34359738368 4241207296
May 03 02:00:35 INFO: progress 17% 5841158144/34359738368 4584738816
May 03 02:00:35 INFO: progress 18% 6184763392/34359738368 4928344064
May 03 02:00:36 INFO: progress 19% 6528368640/34359738368 5271949312
May 03 02:00:39 INFO: progress 20% 6871973888/34359738368 5433421824
May 03 02:00:45 INFO: progress 21% 7215579136/34359738368 5436542976
May 03 02:00:51 INFO: progress 22% 7559184384/34359738368 5438631936
May 04 07:50:45 ERROR: Backup of VM 100 failed - command '/usr/bin/vma create -v -c /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2015_05_03-02_00_05.tmp/qemu-server.conf 'exec:lzop>/var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2015_05_03-02_00_05.vma.dat' 'drive-virtio0=/var/lib/ssd/images/100/base-100-disk-1.qcow2'' failed: interrupted by signal