On March 31, 2020 12:21 pm, Mikhail wrote: > Hello, > > On one of our clusters we're seeing issues with VM backup task - the > backup task fails with the following: > > ERROR: Node 'drive-scsi0' is busy: block device is in use by block job: > mirror > INFO: aborting backup job > ERROR: Backup of VM 123 failed - Node 'drive-scsi0' is busy: block > device is in use by block job: mirror > > I tried digging some information and it appears to be that there's > "drive-mirror" job in QEMU/KVM for this particular VM is blocking backup > process. It is clear to me that this problem started couple weeks ago > when we attempted to change VM's disk underlying storage, however the > "Move disk" operation was cancelled manually by administrator at the > time and backup tasks started failing right after that. I'm not sure > whether this is Proxmox issue or QEMU/KVM, but I suppose that stopping > and starting VM from within Proxmox will remove this block, however in > our case keeping this virtual machine up and running is critical and we > should avoid even 1-2 min downtime.
yes, shutting the VM down and starting it again gets rid of any leftover block-jobs for sure. > The question is how to remove this drive-mirror block online and how to > avoid this in the future. you should be able to manually clean the messup using the QMP/monitor interface: `man qemu-qmp-ref` gives a detailed tour, you probably want `query-block-jobs` and `query-block`, and then, depending on the output `block-job-cancel` or `block-job-complete`. the HMP interface accessible via 'qm monitor <VMID>' has slightly different commands: `info block -v`, `info block-jobs` and `block_job_cancel`/`block_job_complete` ('_' instead of '-'). feel free to post the output of the query/info commands before deciding how to proceed. the complete task log of the failed 'move disk' operation would also be interesting, if it is still available. _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list pve-user@pve.proxmox.com https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user