@florent
I’m a developer myself, so I can totally relate—just when you think everything is working perfectly, someone like me comes along
I’m really glad I could help contribute to finding a solution, and I’ll report back once I’ve tested the new commit. Thanks a lot for your work.

However, this does raise the question for me: is my use case for continuous replication really that unusual?

@florent
I’m a developer myself, so I can totally relate—just when you think everything is working perfectly, someone like me comes along
I’m really glad I could help contribute to finding a solution, and I’ll report back once I’ve tested the new commit. Thanks a lot for your work.

However, this does raise the question for me: is my use case for continuous replication really that unusual?

@florent
Yes, that is absolutely correct. I have a pool with two members without shared storage. Some VMs run on the master, and some on the second pool member. I replicate between the pool members so that, if necessary, I can start the VMs on the other member. This may not be best practice.

@Pilow
actually it looks like this:

edit:

Log of last run:

{
  "data": {
    "mode": "delta",
    "reportWhen": "failure"
  },
  "id": "1773822934377",
  "jobId": "a95ac100-0e20-49c5-9270-c0306ee2852f",
  "jobName": "replicate_to_srv002",
  "message": "backup",
  "scheduleId": "1014584a-228c-4049-8912-51ab1b24925a",
  "start": 1773822934377,
  "status": "success",
  "infos": [
    {
      "data": {
        "vms": [
          "224a73db-9bc6-13d6-cc8e-0bf22dbede73"
        ]
      },
      "message": "vms"
    }
  ],
  "tasks": [
    {
      "data": {
        "type": "VM",
        "id": "224a73db-9bc6-13d6-cc8e-0bf22dbede73",
        "name_label": "privat"
      },
      "id": "1773822936247",
      "message": "backup VM",
      "start": 1773822936247,
      "status": "success",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "id": "1773822937378",
          "message": "snapshot",
          "start": 1773822937378,
          "status": "success",
          "end": 1773822940361,
          "result": "d0ba1483-f5ae-ce72-fb4f-dbd9eafbf272"
        },
        {
          "data": {
            "id": "8205e6c4-4d8f-69d9-6315-9ee89af8e307",
            "isFull": true,
            "name_label": "Local storage",
            "type": "SR"
          },
          "id": "1773822940361:0",
          "message": "export",
          "start": 1773822940361,
          "status": "success",
          "tasks": [
            {
              "id": "1773822942354",
              "message": "transfer",
              "start": 1773822942354,
              "status": "success",
              "tasks": [
                {
                  "id": "1773823497635",
                  "message": "target snapshot",
                  "start": 1773823497635,
                  "status": "success",
                  "end": 1773823500290,
                  "result": "OpaqueRef:53bceb07-a69c-504d-e824-28f5384cb763"
                }
              ],
              "end": 1773823500290,
              "result": {
                "size": 61941481472
              }
            },
            {
              "id": "1773823501512",
              "message": "health check",
              "start": 1773823501512,
              "status": "success",
              "tasks": [
                {
                  "id": "1773823501515",
                  "message": "cloning-vm",
                  "start": 1773823501515,
                  "status": "success",
                  "end": 1773823504720,
                  "result": "OpaqueRef:43e9644f-fc99-963a-4a54-da3b845e823b"
                },
                {
                  "id": "1773823504722",
                  "message": "vmstart",
                  "start": 1773823504722,
                  "status": "success",
                  "end": 1773823545662
                }
              ],
              "end": 1773823549312
            }
          ],
          "end": 1773823549312
        }
      ],
      "end": 1773823549319
    }
  ],
  "end": 1773823549319
}

Hello everyone,

I’m not sure if my information is useful, but I’m experiencing the same problem. I am using continuous replication between two servers with a retention of 4.
Previously, four VM replicas were created, each with a timestamp in the name. With the current version, four VMs are created with identical names.

My environment:
XO: from source commit 598ab
xcp-ng: 8.3.0 with the latest patches

My backup job:
Name of backup job: replicate_to_srv002
Source server: srv003
Target server: srv002
VM name: privat
Retention: 4

Result on the target server:
4 VMs with the name "[XO Backup replicate_to_srv002] privat - replicate_to_srv002", where only the newest one contains a snapshot named: "privat - replicate_to_srv002 - (20260318T083542Z)"

Additionally, full backups are created on every run of the backup job, and no deltas are being used.

If I can help with any additional information, I’d be happy to do so.

Best regards,
Simon