Hi All,<div><br></div><div>We have a problem with backups for one of our VMs</div><div>on a production cluster running ProxMox VE 1.8</div><div><br></div><div>Here is an excerpt of the logs:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); ">107: Oct 22 00:52:11 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 107 (openvz)<br>
107: Oct 22 00:52:11 INFO: CTID 107 exist mounted running<br>107: Oct 22 00:52:11 INFO: status = CTID 107 exist mounted running<br>107: Oct 22 00:52:11 INFO: backup mode: snapshot<br>107: Oct 22 00:52:11 INFO: ionice priority: 7<br>
107: Oct 22 00:52:11 INFO: creating lvm snapshot of /dev/mapper/pve-data ('/dev/pve/vzsnap-vz1-0')<br>107: Oct 22 00:52:11 INFO: Logical volume "vzsnap-vz1-0" created<br>107: Oct 22 00:52:12 INFO: creating archive '/mnt/pve/nfs_backup/vzdump-openvz-107-2011_10_22-00_52_11.tgz'<br>
107: Oct 22 02:40:50 INFO: gzip: stdout: Unknown error 512<br>107: Oct 22 02:40:51 INFO: Logical volume "vzsnap-vz1-0" successfully removed<br>107: Oct 22 02:40:52 ERROR: Backup of VM 107 failed - command '(cd /mnt/vzsnap0/private/107;find . '(' -regex '^\.$' ')' -o '(' -type 's' -prune ')' -o -print0|sed 's/\\/\\\\/g'|tar czpf - --totals --sparse --numeric-owner --no-recursion --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system --null -T -) >/mnt/pve/nfs_backup/vzdump-openvz-107-2011_10_22-00_52_11.dat' failed with exit code 141<br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); ">My research regarding this issue has lead</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); ">me to believe that it might be a bug with</span></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); ">the version of tar on the host system which</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); ">runs Debian 5.0.8 (lenny) (installed with the</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); ">ProxMox VE 1.8 ISO).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); ">See: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); "><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487315">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487315</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Basically I wants to know two things:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Has anyone encountered this problem before?</div><div>2) And if so, what was your solution?</div><div><br></div><div>I have been unable to find a later version of</div>
<div>tar available for Debian 5.0.8 (llenny) nor in</div><div>backports. I will keep looking for a solution myself</div><div>but it would be good to hear from others that use</div><div>ProxMox VE 1.8 in production.</div>
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<br></div><div>kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>James<br clear="all"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="color:rgb(136, 136, 136);border-collapse:separate"><br>
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