[PVE-User] Backups Failing

[Theron T. Trout]

Aha!  That's it, Sir Maurer!  The disk is vfat and hence has a 4G file
size limit.  How embarrassing :)

Thanks for your help,
Theron

Martin Maurer wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pve-user-bounces at pve.proxmox.com [mailto:pve-user-
>> bounces at pve.proxmox.com] On Behalf Of Theron T. Trout
>> Sent: Freitag, 24. April 2009 16:53
>> To: proxmoxve
>> Subject: [PVE-User] Backups Failing
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got a new proxmox install that is causing me troubles.  Initially
>> backups were working correctly, but that is no longer the case.  Backups
>> are sent to a usb hard drive (320G).  Below are the logs.  Can anyone
>> suggest what might be wrong?
>>
>> = vzdump-101.log =
>>
>> Apr 24 10:37:01 INFO: Starting Backup of VM 101 (qemu)
>> Apr 24 10:37:02 INFO: status = running
>> Apr 24 10:37:02 INFO: creating lvm snapshot of /dev/mapper/pve-data
>> ('/dev/pve/vzsnap')
>> Apr 24 10:37:02 INFO:   Logical volume "vzsnap" created
>> Apr 24 10:37:02 INFO: mounting lvm snapshot
>> Apr 24 10:37:03 INFO: creating archive
>> '/mnt/backup-drive/vzdump-101.dat' (/mnt/vzsnap/images/101)
>> Apr 24 10:37:03 INFO: qemu-server.conf
>> Apr 24 10:37:03 INFO: vm-101-disk.qcow2
>> Apr 24 10:43:53 INFO: 4294967295 B 4.0 GB 409.7 s (6:49 min) 10484097
>> B/s 10.00 MB/s
>> Apr 24 10:43:53 INFO: write: File too large
> 
> What file system is on the USB drive? Maybe you hit a 4 GB limit.
> Br, martin

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