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    XO error/warning: Clean VM directory. unhandled error while checking alias.

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      pierrebrunet Vates 🪐 XO Team @FagnerMoraes
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      @FagnerMoraes There is now a fix in latest channel now, but you will need to run backup again.

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        FagnerMoraes
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        @pierrebrunet I updated and did a backup test with a smaller VM. It worked; it's no longer deleting the VMs backup. It still issues an alert about possible file corruption, but I restored it using XOCE and it restored normally.
        Thank you for your help.

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          Andrew Top contributor @pierrebrunet
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          @pierrebrunet I still see the same error....

           Clean VM directory 
 unhandled error while checking alias
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            pierrebrunet Vates 🪐 XO Team @Andrew
            last edited by pierrebrunet

            An issue was identified in backup jobs running in incremental with commit 100f113 or release 6.5.0. If one of your incremental backup chains was corrupted, it lead to a cleaning of vdis folder resulting into backup lose.

            Please update your source at least to 4552fb9 or your XOA to 6.5.1.

            If you encountered issues about a warning with aliases, you are concerned. You need to run your backup jobs again to have your backups back on track.

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              pierrebrunet Vates 🪐 XO Team @Andrew
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              @Andrew The warning may still appear indeed but I think it is another issue or maybe a good warning to check your backups. Can you provide the new logs please?

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                MajorP93 @pierrebrunet
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                @pierrebrunet Thanks for fixing this critical issue!

                Do you have any plans regarding internal automated tests that would ensure that critical issues like these (deletion / corruption of backups etc.) do not get shipped?

                Best regards

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                  Andrew Top contributor @pierrebrunet
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                  @pierrebrunet XO updated to master daefcab, same issue (delta backup S3, problem at merge).

                  I tried running backup several times to see if the error would clear (it did not). I tried deleting the backup and starting with a new full, error happened at the merge again.

                  Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]: 2026-06-01T14:07:24.037Z xo:backups:MixinBackupWriter INFO Disk chain needs merging { count: 1 }
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]: 2026-06-01T14:07:24.039Z xo:backups:MixinBackupWriter INFO merging disk chain {
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:   chain: [
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:     '/xo-vm-backups/a081f208-4e40-2ca5-c68e-86106af5a8ef/vdis/d6c0a656-62c5-4c39-a57a-f246b39f1cef/cbb7809e-8296-4dc6-8200-ed1f42e50c68/20260601T134029Z.alias.vhd',
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:     '/xo-vm-backups/a081f208-4e40-2ca5-c68e-86106af5a8ef/vdis/d6c0a656-62c5-4c39-a57a-f246b39f1cef/cbb7809e-8296-4dc6-8200-ed1f42e50c68/20260601T134306Z.alias.vhd'
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:   ]
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]: }
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]: 2026-06-01T14:07:24.318Z xo:backups:MixinBackupWriter WARN unhandled error while checking alias {
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:   alias: '/xo-vm-backups/a081f208-4e40-2ca5-c68e-86106af5a8ef/vdis/d6c0a656-62c5-4c39-a57a-f246b39f1cef/cbb7809e-8296-4dc6-8200-ed1f42e50c68/20260601T134029Z.alias.vhd',
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:   err: NotFound: UnknownError
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at S3RestXmlProtocol.handleError (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/node_modules/@aws-sdk/core/dist-cjs/submodules/protocols/index.js:1850:27)
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5)
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at async S3RestXmlProtocol.deserializeResponse (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/node_modules/@smithy/core/dist-cjs/submodules/protocols/index.js:424:13)
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at async /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/node_modules/@smithy/core/dist-cjs/submodules/schema/index.js:27:24
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at async /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/node_modules/@aws-sdk/middleware-sdk-s3/dist-cjs/index.js:387:20
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at async /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/node_modules/@smithy/core/dist-cjs/submodules/retry/index.js:172:50
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at async /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/node_modules/@aws-sdk/middleware-sdk-s3/dist-cjs/index.js:64:28
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at async /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/node_modules/@aws-sdk/middleware-sdk-s3/dist-cjs/index.js:91:20
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at async /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/node_modules/@aws-sdk/middleware-logger/dist-cjs/index.js:5:26
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       at async S3Handler._getSize (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202606010843/@xen-orchestra/fs/dist/s3.js:304:20) {
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:     '$fault': 'client',
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:     '$retryable': undefined,
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:     '$metadata': {
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       httpStatusCode: 404,
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       requestId: '18B4FA31C10C3A3E',
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       extendedRequestId: 'a18350611414fa9366e109699727e695e309120afc9803fcaff78a199f9bc4d6',
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       cfId: undefined,
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       attempts: 1,
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:       totalRetryDelay: 0
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:     }
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]:   }
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]: }
Jun 01 10:07:24 xo2 xo-server[9341]: 2026-06-01T14:07:24.490Z xo:backups:worker INFO backup has ended
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                    pierrebrunet Vates 🪐 XO Team @MajorP93
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                    @MajorP93 We are building an automated QA that we keep updating and running regularly (preferably nightly) to add any event possible. We missed this one because we did not took enough failures into account, so we added a regression test for this too.

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                      pierrebrunet Vates 🪐 XO Team @Andrew
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                      @Andrew I think I found the issue, I am working on it

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                        pierrebrunet Vates 🪐 XO Team @Andrew
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                        @Andrew
                        Your error happens after a successful merge in s3 which removes old alias not found (expected). However, the error given by s3 is not generic so it was not handled by alias checking. This issue was always there but we decided to show the warnings during backup and fix them with this new refactoring.

                        Can you try this branch please?
                        https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/tree/pbt_fix_warning_backup

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                          Andrew Top contributor @pierrebrunet
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                          @pierrebrunet The error happens using Wasabi and MinIO. The pbt_fix_warning_backup still has the error (but no 404 error):

                          Clean VM directory 
 missing target of alias

                          Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]: 2026-06-01T15:23:22.571Z xo:backups:MixinBackupWriter INFO Disk chain needs merging { count: 1 }
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]: 2026-06-01T15:23:22.571Z xo:backups:MixinBackupWriter INFO merging disk chain {
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]:   chain: [
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]:     '/xo-vm-backups/a081f208-4e40-2ca5-c68e-86106af5a8ef/vdis/d6c0a656-62c5-4c39-a57a-f246b39f1cef/cbb7809e-8296-4dc6-8200-ed1f42e50c68/20260601T152042Z.alias.vhd',
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]:     '/xo-vm-backups/a081f208-4e40-2ca5-c68e-86106af5a8ef/vdis/d6c0a656-62c5-4c39-a57a-f246b39f1cef/cbb7809e-8296-4dc6-8200-ed1f42e50c68/20260601T152256Z.alias.vhd'
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]:   ]
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]: }
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]: 2026-06-01T15:23:22.741Z xo:backups:MixinBackupWriter WARN missing target of alias {
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]:   alias: '/xo-vm-backups/a081f208-4e40-2ca5-c68e-86106af5a8ef/vdis/d6c0a656-62c5-4c39-a57a-f246b39f1cef/cbb7809e-8296-4dc6-8200-ed1f42e50c68/20260601T152042Z.alias.vhd'
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]: }
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]: 2026-06-01T15:23:22.741Z xo:backups:MixinBackupWriter INFO removing alias with missing target {
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]:   alias: '/xo-vm-backups/a081f208-4e40-2ca5-c68e-86106af5a8ef/vdis/d6c0a656-62c5-4c39-a57a-f246b39f1cef/cbb7809e-8296-4dc6-8200-ed1f42e50c68/20260601T152042Z.alias.vhd'
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]: }
Jun 01 11:23:22 xo2 xo-server[4216]: 2026-06-01T15:23:22.866Z xo:backups:worker INFO backup has ended
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                            pierrebrunet Vates 🪐 XO Team @Andrew
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                            @Andrew You mean it fails the whole job for this warning? Or this is just a warning inside a successful job?

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                              Andrew Top contributor @pierrebrunet
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                              @pierrebrunet It's a warning. Backup job is successful.

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                                pierrebrunet Vates 🪐 XO Team @Andrew
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                                @Andrew ok, thank you. This one indeed is not supposed to be triggered indeed.

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