-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 11:52:59AM -0400, Steve Coleman wrote: > I seem to have an intermittent problem when my backup scripts are running > late at night. > > My qubesd is apparently being shutdown (sent a sigterm signal) by systemd > during my long running backup sessions which then causes an eof pipe close > exception and qvm-backup then receives a socket exception and immediately > receives a second exception while still handling the first exception, thus > the qvm-backup process gets forcibly terminated mid stream. Just prior to > the qubesd shutdown I can clearly see that systemd had also > shutdown/restarted the qubes memory manager (qubes-qmemman) too. > > Q: What kind of background maintenance processing would actually require > qubesd or the memory manager to be restarted?
I guess that's logrorate (but it isn't clear to me why qubesd too, not just qubes-qmemman service...). > Q: Could this processing be put on hold during backups? > > Q: Or, how could I at least know when this maintenance is scheduled to > happen so I could defer my own processing? If that's indeed logrotate, see `systemctl status logrotate.timer` > My scripts can certainly trap this error, erase the incomplete backup file, > then loop and check for qubesd to complete its restart, and then finally > restart my own backup processing, but why should this even be necessary? > > When this happens its almost always during the backup of my largest VM which > can take well over 90 minutes to complete. If I can somehow block/defer > this kind of system maintenance until after my backups are complete that > would be better than having to deal with trapping random restarts. Again, if that's logrotate, you can stop the timer before, and restart it afterwards. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEhrpukzGPukRmQqkK24/THMrX1ywFAmFl4ocACgkQ24/THMrX 1ywC1gf8ChUCgVxe/SIHnVF8+hoA8/JoKlQTyddVGfjf5qp3a49vMtUbvMJ0hqWH C5Ejz5dF+UxkqEkcXS1/oKlgnBIwal+GYEe1u2VwZyLmB9WV725ukzi8MYCOVKvM amJuLGcD7vT2T6akTxnOLta+ofByJhSWgup7eEnXYfuOQ3hp8fKVWJ451QWbOafV oY1TPJ/ptfl2ynUePyX8R990RnHS6V7LoBShbI5CB4e4g+6ogm9ibVC94nk9d+pD PcIF9c+iC8jhVXMzkoP73KR7WEJ74WmrcefigoffwDLIjXwNPiQqwC4kGmq32rfG 7TVjl9Rv8DpUNfVTtDq+8xjOx3Ck3Q== =6Alm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/YWXih4xG5dAuGaKS%40mail-itl.
