[pve-devel] backup lock

[Dietmar Maurer]

On 12/23/2014 02:58 AM, lyt_yudi wrote:
> hi,all
>
> INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 121 --remove 0 --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage local --node t3
> INFO: Starting Backup of VM 121 (qemu)
> INFO: status = running
> INFO: VM is locked (backup)
> ERROR: Backup of VM 121 failed - command 'qm set 121 --lock backup' failed: exit code 25
> INFO: Backup job finished with errors
> TASK ERROR: job errors
>
> this case must be in cli: qm unlock 121 , for unlock 121
>
> maybe this is a bug :(
>
> Can to increase this feature in the API? or unlock it before new backup job?

This indicates that something is wrong, maybe a crashed backup job?
You should check if there is an old backup task still running before 
using unlock.