I remember this used to work on Cloudstack 4.2 when I was testing it with devcloud but with CloudPlatform 4.2.1 and KVM I can't get snapshots to work.
I've setup a single node using KVM and management server, db and agent. I can start an instance using a template stored on NFS secondary storage. If I stop the instance and goto storage, I can see it's disk and then I can select "take snapshot". This always seems to fail for me and I'm not sure why. The error seems to be: Failed to create snapshot com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Failed to backup 4d3ea6fa-6902-4037-be67-166e34575ee9 for disk /mnt/8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27/f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4 to /mnt/e5c41d36-90d2-3d5e-bdbf-8a0140dd330e/snapshots/2/3 /mnt/8a218... is mounted fine if I look at df. /mnt/e5c41... is not mounted. If I browse to /mnt, the e5c41... directory (used for mounting) exists. If I manually mount it, I can see the directory /mnt/e5c41.../snapshots/2/3 so it exists. If I leave it mounted and try to take a snapshot again, it fails again with the same error and again when I check the /mnt/e5c41... directory is not mounted. As I mentioned above, the NFS server I'm using is actually the same node. I'm using KVM but I don't think that is causing the issue? I'm using CentOS 6.4. If I setup S3 as secondary storage and use NFS as the staging server, I get the same error. Any hints on what I am doing wrong is greatly appreciated. Here is more of the exception log: 2014-03-24 16:12:33,450 DEBUG [cloud.api.ApiServlet] (catalina-exec-10:null) ===START=== 10.181.164.198 -- GET command=createSnapshot&volumeid=96f59602-8a84-4731-91a5-218d4f45ee70&response=json&sessionkey=TnWYMJmMIZRly5DfGPNX%2BpZeT%2BI%3D&_=1395645153401 2014-03-24 16:12:33,819 DEBUG [cloud.async.AsyncJobManagerImpl] (catalina-exec-10:null) submit async job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ], details: AsyncJobVO {id:10, userId: 2, accountId: 2, sessionKey: null, instanceType: Snapshot, instanceId: 1, cmd: org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.user.snapshot.CreateSnapshotCmd, cmdOriginator: null, cmdInfo: {"id":"1","response":"json","sessionkey":"TnWYMJmMIZRly5DfGPNX+pZeT+I\u003d","cmdEventType":"SNAPSHOT.CREATE","ctxUserId":"2","httpmethod":"GET","_":"1395645153401","volumeid":"96f59602-8a84-4731-91a5-218d4f45ee70","ctxAccountId":"2","ctxStartEventId":"45"}, cmdVersion: 0, callbackType: 0, callbackAddress: null, status: 0, processStatus: 0, resultCode: 0, result: null, initMsid: 143618408992, completeMsid: null, lastUpdated: null, lastPolled: null, created: null} 2014-03-24 16:12:33,820 DEBUG [cloud.async.AsyncJobManagerImpl] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Executing org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.user.snapshot.CreateSnapshotCmd for job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ] 2014-03-24 16:12:33,821 DEBUG [cloud.api.ApiServlet] (catalina-exec-10:null) ===END=== 10.181.164.198 -- GET command=createSnapshot&volumeid=96f59602-8a84-4731-91a5-218d4f45ee70&response=json&sessionkey=TnWYMJmMIZRly5DfGPNX%2BpZeT%2BI%3D&_=1395645153401 2014-03-24 16:12:33,847 INFO [user.snapshot.CreateSnapshotCmd] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) VOLSS: createSnapshotCmd starts:1395645153847 2014-03-24 16:12:34,179 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Seq 1-249561236: Sending { Cmd , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 1, Ver: v1, Flags: 100011, [{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.command.CreateObjectCommand":{"data":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.SnapshotObjectTO":{"volume":{"uuid":"96f59602-8a84-4731-91a5-218d4f45ee70","volumeType":"ROOT","dataStore":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.PrimaryDataStoreTO":{"uuid":"8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27","id":1,"poolType":"NetworkFilesystem","host":"10.181.168.230","path":"/home/primary","port":2049}},"name":"ROOT-3","size":13147648,"path":"f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4","volumeId":3,"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","accountId":2,"format":"QCOW2","id":3,"hypervisorType":"KVM"},"dataStore":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.PrimaryDataStoreTO":{"uuid":"8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27","id":1,"poolType":"NetworkFilesystem","host":"10.181.168.230","path":"/home/primary","port":2049}},"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","name":"test1_ROOT-3_20140324071233","hypervisorType":"KVM","id":1}},"wait":0}}] } 2014-03-24 16:12:34,374 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (AgentManager-Handler-8:null) Seq 1-249561236: Processing: { Ans: , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 1, Ver: v1, Flags: 10, [{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.command.CreateObjectAnswer":{"data":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.SnapshotObjectTO":{"path":"/mnt/8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27/f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4/4d3ea6fa-6902-4037-be67-166e34575ee9","id":0}},"result":true,"wait":0}}] } 2014-03-24 16:12:34,374 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Seq 1-249561236: Received: { Ans: , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 1, Ver: v1, Flags: 10, { CreateObjectAnswer } } 2014-03-24 16:12:34,784 DEBUG [storage.motion.AncientDataMotionStrategy] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) copyAsync inspecting src type SNAPSHOT copyAsync inspecting dest type SNAPSHOT 2014-03-24 16:12:34,802 DEBUG [storage.motion.AncientDataMotionStrategy] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) needCacheStorage true, dest at snapshots/2/3 dest role Image/mnt/8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27/f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4/4d3ea6fa-6902-4037-be67-166e34575ee9 src role Primary 2014-03-24 16:12:34,938 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Seq 1-249561237: Sending { Cmd , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 1, Ver: v1, Flags: 100111, [{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.command.CopyCommand":{"srcTO":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.SnapshotObjectTO":{"path":"/mnt/8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27/f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4/4d3ea6fa-6902-4037-be67-166e34575ee9","volume":{"uuid":"96f59602-8a84-4731-91a5-218d4f45ee70","volumeType":"ROOT","dataStore":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.PrimaryDataStoreTO":{"uuid":"8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27","id":1,"poolType":"NetworkFilesystem","host":"10.181.168.230","path":"/home/primary","port":2049}},"name":"ROOT-3","size":13147648,"path":"f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4","volumeId":3,"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","accountId":2,"format":"QCOW2","id":3,"hypervisorType":"KVM"},"dataStore":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.PrimaryDataStoreTO":{"uuid":"8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27","id":1,"poolType":"NetworkFilesystem","host":"10.181.168.230","path":"/home/primary","port":2049}},"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","name":"test1_ROOT-3_20140324071233","hypervisorType":"KVM","id":1}},"destTO":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.SnapshotObjectTO":{"path":"snapshots/2/3","volume":{"uuid":"96f59602-8a84-4731-91a5-218d4f45ee70","volumeType":"ROOT","dataStore":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.PrimaryDataStoreTO":{"uuid":"8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27","id":1,"poolType":"NetworkFilesystem","host":"10.181.168.230","path":"/home/primary","port":2049}},"name":"ROOT-3","size":13147648,"path":"f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4","volumeId":3,"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","accountId":2,"format":"QCOW2","id":3,"hypervisorType":"KVM"},"dataStore":{"com.cloud.agent.api.to.S3TO":{"id":2,"uuid":"c18a1785-f578-4102-bb94-0298289786e0","endPoint":"s3.cloudian.com:18080","bucketName":"cloudstack","httpsFlag":false,"created":"Mar 24, 2014 3:39:20 PM","enableRRS":false,"maxSingleUploadSizeInBytes":5368709120}},"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","name":"test1_ROOT-3_20140324071233","hypervisorType":"KVM","id":1}},"cacheTO":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.SnapshotObjectTO":{"path":"snapshots/2/3","volume":{"uuid":"96f59602-8a84-4731-91a5-218d4f45ee70","volumeType":"ROOT","dataStore":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.PrimaryDataStoreTO":{"uuid":"8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27","id":1,"poolType":"NetworkFilesystem","host":"10.181.168.230","path":"/home/primary","port":2049}},"name":"ROOT-3","size":13147648,"path":"f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4","volumeId":3,"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","accountId":2,"format":"QCOW2","id":3,"hypervisorType":"KVM"},"dataStore":{"com.cloud.agent.api.to.NfsTO":{"_url":"nfs://10.181.168.230/home/staging","_role":"ImageCache"}},"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","name":"test1_ROOT-3_20140324071233","hypervisorType":"KVM","id":1}},"executeInSequence":true,"wait":21600}}] } 2014-03-24 16:12:35,090 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (AgentManager-Handler-7:null) Seq 1-249561237: Processing: { Ans: , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 1, Ver: v1, Flags: 110, [{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.command.CopyCmdAnswer":{"result":false,"details":"Failed to backup 4d3ea6fa-6902-4037-be67-166e34575ee9 for disk /mnt/8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27/f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4 to /mnt/e5c41d36-90d2-3d5e-bdbf-8a0140dd330e/snapshots/2/3","wait":0}}] } 2014-03-24 16:12:35,090 DEBUG [agent.manager.AgentAttache] (AgentManager-Handler-7:null) Seq 1-249561237: No more commands found 2014-03-24 16:12:35,090 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (AgentManager-Handler-7:null) Seq 1-249561237: Processing: { Ans: , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 1, Ver: v1, Flags: 110, [{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.command.CopyCmdAnswer":{"result":false,"details":"Failed to backup 4d3ea6fa-6902-4037-be67-166e34575ee9 for disk /mnt/8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27/f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4 to /mnt/e5c41d36-90d2-3d5e-bdbf-8a0140dd330e/snapshots/2/3","wait":0}}] } 2014-03-24 16:12:35,090 DEBUG [agent.manager.AgentAttache] (AgentManager-Handler-7:null) Seq 1-249561237: No more commands found 2014-03-24 16:12:35,090 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Seq 1-249561237: Received: { Ans: , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 1, Ver: v1, Flags: 110, { CopyCmdAnswer } } 2014-03-24 16:12:35,098 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Seq 3-1564409959: Sending { Cmd , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 3, Ver: v1, Flags: 100011, [{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.command.DeleteCommand":{"data":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.SnapshotObjectTO":{"path":"snapshots/2/3","volume":{"uuid":"96f59602-8a84-4731-91a5-218d4f45ee70","volumeType":"ROOT","dataStore":{"org.apache.cloudstack.storage.to.PrimaryDataStoreTO":{"uuid":"8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27","id":1,"poolType":"NetworkFilesystem","host":"10.181.168.230","path":"/home/primary","port":2049}},"name":"ROOT-3","size":13147648,"path":"f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4","volumeId":3,"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","accountId":2,"format":"QCOW2","id":3,"hypervisorType":"KVM"},"dataStore":{"com.cloud.agent.api.to.NfsTO":{"_url":"nfs://10.181.168.230/home/staging","_role":"ImageCache"}},"vmName":"i-2-3-VM","name":"test1_ROOT-3_20140324071233","hypervisorType":"KVM","id":1}},"wait":0}}] } 2014-03-24 16:12:35,260 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (AgentManager-Handler-9:null) Seq 3-1564409959: Processing: { Ans: , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 3, Ver: v1, Flags: 10, [{"com.cloud.agent.api.Answer":{"result":true,"wait":0}}] } 2014-03-24 16:12:35,260 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Seq 3-1564409959: Received: { Ans: , MgmtId: 143618408992, via: 3, Ver: v1, Flags: 10, { Answer } } 2014-03-24 16:12:35,468 DEBUG [storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Failed to create snapshot com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Failed to backup 4d3ea6fa-6902-4037-be67-166e34575ee9 for disk /mnt/8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27/f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4 to /mnt/e5c41d36-90d2-3d5e-bdbf-8a0140dd330e/snapshots/2/3 at org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.SnapshotServiceImpl.backupSnapshot(SnapshotServiceImpl.java:280) at org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.XenserverSnapshotStrategy.backupSnapshot(XenserverSnapshotStrategy.java:136) at org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.XenserverSnapshotStrategy.takeSnapshot(XenserverSnapshotStrategy.java:279) at com.cloud.storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl.takeSnapshot(SnapshotManagerImpl.java:1001) at com.cloud.utils.component.ComponentInstantiationPostProcessor$InterceptorDispatcher.intercept(ComponentInstantiationPostProcessor.java:125) at org.apache.cloudstack.storage.volume.VolumeServiceImpl.takeSnapshot(VolumeServiceImpl.java:1311) at com.cloud.storage.VolumeManagerImpl.takeSnapshot(VolumeManagerImpl.java:2779) at org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.user.snapshot.CreateSnapshotCmd.execute(CreateSnapshotCmd.java:170) at com.cloud.api.ApiDispatcher.dispatch(ApiDispatcher.java:158) at com.cloud.async.AsyncJobManagerImpl$1.run(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:531) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) 2014-03-24 16:12:35,635 DEBUG [storage.volume.VolumeServiceImpl] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Take snapshot: 3 failed com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Failed to create snapshot at com.cloud.storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl.takeSnapshot(SnapshotManagerImpl.java:1028) at com.cloud.utils.component.ComponentInstantiationPostProcessor$InterceptorDispatcher.intercept(ComponentInstantiationPostProcessor.java:125) at org.apache.cloudstack.storage.volume.VolumeServiceImpl.takeSnapshot(VolumeServiceImpl.java:1311) at com.cloud.storage.VolumeManagerImpl.takeSnapshot(VolumeManagerImpl.java:2779) at org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.user.snapshot.CreateSnapshotCmd.execute(CreateSnapshotCmd.java:170) at com.cloud.api.ApiDispatcher.dispatch(ApiDispatcher.java:158) at com.cloud.async.AsyncJobManagerImpl$1.run(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:531) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Failed to backup 4d3ea6fa-6902-4037-be67-166e34575ee9 for disk /mnt/8a2181f7-86a0-3d7d-a5be-10caa89b3d27/f0615600-d806-486e-bbea-d408de0225e4 to /mnt/e5c41d36-90d2-3d5e-bdbf-8a0140dd330e/snapshots/2/3 at org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.SnapshotServiceImpl.backupSnapshot(SnapshotServiceImpl.java:280) at org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.XenserverSnapshotStrategy.backupSnapshot(XenserverSnapshotStrategy.java:136) at org.apache.cloudstack.storage.snapshot.XenserverSnapshotStrategy.takeSnapshot(XenserverSnapshotStrategy.java:279) at com.cloud.storage.snapshot.SnapshotManagerImpl.takeSnapshot(SnapshotManagerImpl.java:1001) ... 16 more 2014-03-24 16:12:35,635 DEBUG [user.snapshot.CreateSnapshotCmd] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Failed to create snapshot org.apache.cloudstack.api.ServerApiException at org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.user.snapshot.CreateSnapshotCmd.execute(CreateSnapshotCmd.java:176) at com.cloud.api.ApiDispatcher.dispatch(ApiDispatcher.java:158) at com.cloud.async.AsyncJobManagerImpl$1.run(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:531) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) 2014-03-24 16:12:35,637 DEBUG [cloud.async.AsyncJobManagerImpl] (Job-Executor-10:job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ]) Complete async job-10 = [ 4f6ffdef-f66d-405c-81cc-8a09cb39f5da ], jobStatus: 2, resultCode: 530, result: Error Code: 530 Error text: Failed to create snapshot due to an internal error creating snapshot for volume 3 Thanks, Tom. -- Cloudian KK - http://www.cloudian.com/get-started.html Fancy 10TB of full featured S3 Storage? 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