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From: Alexander Burke via pve-user <pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox VE user list <pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>
Cc: Alexander Burke <alex@alexburke.ca>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Unresponsive VM(s) during VZdump
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 11:24:06 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.88.1715253871.319.pve-user@lists.proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e504103-279a-4b24-a918-70d68e63220c@oeg.com.au>

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From: Alexander Burke <alex@alexburke.ca>
To: Proxmox VE user list <pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Unresponsive VM(s) during VZdump
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 11:24:06 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <11db3d6f-1879-44b3-9f99-01e6fde6ebc8@alexburke.ca>

Hello all,

My understanding is that if the backing store is ZFS, a snapshot of the zvol underlying the guest's disk(s) is instant and atomic, and the snapshot is what gets backed up so fleecing is moot. Am I wrong on this?

I know nothing about Ceph other than the fact that it supports snapshots; assuming the above understanding is correct, does snapshot-based backup not work much the same way on Ceph?

Cheers,
Alex
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2024-05-09T10:11:20Z Mike O'Connor <mike@oeg.com.au>:

> I played with all the drive interface settings, the end result was I lost customers because of backups causing windows drive failures.
> Since fleecing was an option, I've not had a lockup.
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/5/2024 7:32 pm, Iztok Gregori wrote:
>> Hi Mike!
>> 
>> On 09/05/24 11:30, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>> You need to enable fleecing in the advanced backup settings. A slow backup storage system will cause this issue, configuring fleecing will fix this by storing changes in a local sparse image.
>> 
>> I see that fleecing is available from PVE 8.2, I will enable it next week once all the nodes will be upgraded to the latest version.
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>> 
>> In the meantime I found this thread on the forum:
>> 
>> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/high-io-wait-during-backups-after-upgrading-to-proxmox-7.113790/
>> 
>> which mention the max_workers parameter. I change it to 4 for the next scheduled backup and see if there are some improvements (I migrated the affected VMs to catch the new configuration).
>> 
>> I will keep you posted!
>> 
>> Iztok
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-09 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-09  8:35 Iztok Gregori
2024-05-09  9:30 ` Mike O'Connor
2024-05-09 10:02   ` Iztok Gregori
2024-05-09 10:11     ` Mike O'Connor
2024-05-09 11:24       ` Alexander Burke via pve-user [this message]
     [not found]       ` <11db3d6f-1879-44b3-9f99-01e6fde6ebc8@alexburke.ca>
2024-05-10  5:21         ` Mike O'Connor
2024-05-10  9:07         ` Fiona Ebner
2024-05-10  7:36     ` Iztok Gregori

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