[PVE-User] qmrestore to external iscsi storage fails

Sat May 7 19:10:41 CEST 2011

Hi List, Hi Alain,

can you believe it? I figured it out...
It all works when i use "screen" for the qmrestore command.
Seems like even with the "&" at the end of the command, it will stop 
working when you close the shell. But strange enough this was not at all 
obvious, as the qmrestore always ran a lot longer than the shell was closed.
And of course in the test phase i didnt use ssh but typed the command 
directly into the machine.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh ! :-)

Thank you very much, for your help anyway.

Now off for a decent beer in the sun...
This was all too much! :-)

a very happy
Sascha

> Hi Alain,
> thanks for your reply.
> I don't use LUN directly too (at least i didn't check that in the PM-GUI).
> As i said i have
> MSA2312i    ISCSI    Yes    Yes    Yes    n/a    n/a    n/a
> as the iscsi device in the PM-Storage-GUI
> and there i have two lvm-groups which represent the two HP MSA volumes:
> vd01_v001    LVM    Yes    Yes    Yes    600.00    936.91    64.04%
> vg01_v002    LVM    Yes    Yes    Yes    0.00    737.70    0.00%
>
>
> I hope it's not a problem that the name for the LVM in PM i chose is 
> the same as the name for the volumes in the MSA Management utility:
>
> vd01_v001
>
> Desperate
> Sascha

Am 06.05.2011 21:26, schrieb Alain Péan:
> Hi Sascha,
>
> I already did such things, and it worked fine for me, even if I don't 
> remember the exact way I did it. But I wonder if using the logical 
> volume name is the correct way to do it. If I remember correctly, I 
> did it with the storage name appearing in the web interface (under 
> storage). I don't use the LUN directly but a logical volume for each 
> VM, as stated in the link you give...
> What name for your iSCSI storage do you have in your web interface ?
>
> Hopes that helps...
>
> Alain
>
> Le 06/05/2011 19:22, Sascha Zucca a écrit :
>> Hi list,
>> i'd most desperately would need your help on a very odd issue i have 
>> here.
>> I would like to qmrestore a backupfile to an ext. storage.
>> but no matter what i try, it'll always fail.
>>
>> First of all:
>> I have a MSA2312i  with 12 x 300 GB SAS (full enclosure) configured 
>> as Raid10.
>> In the Management Utility of the MSA2312i it is configured as follows:
>>
>> *Vdisks*
>>
>>    *
>>       *vd01* (RAID10)
>>          o
>>             Volume *vd01_v001* (1005.9GB)
>>          o
>>             Volume *vd01_v002* (792.0GB)
>>
>>
>>
>> Here's what i do next :
>>
>> 1. install multipath-tools as described in 
>> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ISCSI_Multipath
>>
>> 2. Configure iscsi storage as described in 
>> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage_Model#LVM_Groups_with_Network_Backing
>> MSA2312i    ISCSI    Yes    Yes    Yes    n/a    n/a    n/a
>> vd01_v001    LVM    Yes    Yes    Yes    600.00    936.91    64.04%
>> vg01_v002    LVM    Yes    Yes    Yes    0.00    737.70    0.00%
>>
>> 3. multipath -ll shows
>> /3600c0ff0001118d861fac34d01000000dm-3 HP      ,MSA2312i
>> [size=937G][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][active]
>>  \_ 17:0:0:1 sdh 8:112 [active][ready]
>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
>>  \_ 14:0:0:1 sdb 8:16  [active][ready]
>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
>>  \_ 15:0:0:1 sdd 8:48  [active][ready]
>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
>>  \_ 16:0:0:1 sdf 8:80  [active][ready]
>> 3600c0ff0001118d86bfac34d01000000dm-4 HP      ,MSA2312i
>> [size=738G][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][active]
>>  \_ 17:0:0:2 sdi 8:128 [active][ready]
>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
>>  \_ 14:0:0:2 sdc 8:32  [active][ready]
>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
>>  \_ 15:0:0:2 sde 8:64  [active][ready]
>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled]
>>  \_ 16:0:0:2 sdg 8:96  [active][ready]/
>> looks good...
>>
>> 4. now i start the command
>> qmrestore --storage vd01_v001 vzdump-qemu-101-2011_05_05-20_05_02.tgz 
>> 101 &
>> the dump consists of two vds (200GB and 600GB)
>>
>> 5. the first vd is being restored to the external storage, i can see 
>> it in the PM-storage-gui and through lvdisplay
>>
>> 6. after a while i get the message that vd1 has been restored 
>> allright and restore of vd2 has started
>> i can then see both vds (PM-storage-gui and through lvdisplay)
>>
>> 7. after another while qmrestore stops, the onle message i can find 
>> ist this in syslog:
>> vzdump[8439]: ERROR: restore QemuServer backup 
>> 'vzdump-qemu-101-2011_05_05-20_05_02.tgz' failed - interrupted by signal
>>
>> 8. the vd1 has vanished, only (an obviously broken) vd2 can be seen 
>> (PM-storage-gui and through lvdisplay)
>>
>> 9. no VM is shown in the virtual machine part of the PM-GUI
>>
>> I tried barely everything to get it working...
>> In the test phase of this environment it worked absolutely flawlessly...
>> Now that we built everything in place no more...
>>
>>
>> Please also consider that qmrestore --storage local 
>> vzdump-qemu-101-2011_05_05-20_05_02.tgz 101 &
>> works like a charm!
>>
>>
>> What do i do that is so wrong???
>>
>> Please help me...
>>
>>
>> Thank you very, very much!
>> Sascha
>>
>>
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