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    Backup Fail: Trying to add data in unsupported state

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    • olivierlambertO Offline
      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
      last edited by

      Do you have the same behavior on XOA on latest release channel?

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        nvoss @olivierlambert
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        @olivierlambert I'm using XO built from sources. Current commit level: 88c7c. I pulled those updates down ~2 days ago I think.

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          nmadunich
          last edited by

          I updated XOA to the latest channel 5.97.0 and I still have the same issue. I can backup the VM without encryption and then it fails when encryption is enabled. We did purchase licensing from VATES so it's not an issue with being built from source.

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            Delgado
            last edited by

            I can confirm I am seeing the same thing with full a mirror full backup job to Backblaze B2 utilizing encryption. I am on Master, commit 732ca in my homelab. I have attached the backup log as well.2024-08-28T22_32_37.271Z - backup NG.json.txt

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            • olivierlambertO Offline
              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
              last edited by

              Thanks for the feedback, let me ping @florent internally

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              • olivierlambertO Offline
                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO @nmadunich
                last edited by

                @nmadunich and same on XOA stable?

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                • florentF Offline
                  florent Vates 🪐 XO Team
                  last edited by florent

                  Hi,

                  what are the size of the failing VMs ? is there anything in the syslog before having the cipher error message ?

                  To be fair, uploading full backup ( > 50GB) , without knowing the size first is full of hurdles. And the xapi dont tell the size of the exports. Incremental backup with block storage completly circumvent this, by uploading separate blocks of known size

                  Regards

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                    nmadunich
                    last edited by nmadunich

                    @olivierlambert Yes I get the same result on stable vs latest channel.

                    @florent The ones that fail do seem to be some of my larger VMs the Windows 10 VM that I have been testing with is about 88.3 GB used according to the OS.

                    All of my VMs are thin provisioned and our NetApp storage is using de-duplication so the size of the VHD on my storage is significantly less in this case it was about 3 GBs.

                    As a test I created a new storage volume without thin provisioning and de-duplication. I migrated the Disk to the new volume and the VHD is 103 GB. I also removed de-duplication and compression on my remote. I tried the backup again and it failed with the same error.

                    I do see some errors from the xensource.log around the time it fails and I attached those here.

                    xensource errors.txt

                    I am editing my post after looking at the log file @Delgado posted mine are slightly different. I added mine for comparison. At some point during my testing the error also changed slightly and started stating VDI must be free or attached to exactly one VM. It appears after a failed backup it's not cleaning up the snapshots.

                    2024-08-29T21_32_42.161Z - backup NG.json.txt

                    2024-08-28T15_05_12.613Z - backup NG.json.txt

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                      Delgado
                      last edited by

                      Hello,

                      My vms are about 150G each. I was using compression when I backed up the vm to the remote before mirroring it to the s3 bucket. I did end up changing to delta backups and the error did go away but I can create another normal backup and mirror it to the bucket again to see if I get the same results.

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                      • olivierlambertO Offline
                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                        last edited by

                        That's interesting 🤔 So it's only with full backup (XVAs) then.

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                        • nvossN Offline
                          nvoss @olivierlambert
                          last edited by nvoss

                          @olivierlambert yeah my experience is also that deltas run without error. Though what they're backing up exactly w/o a full in the remote is pretty questionable. I assume its a delta off of the snapshot full, where the snapshot is completed without issue and it's just the copy to encrypted remote that's failing.

                          These are definitely my larger VMs -- >100gb total disk.

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                            daniel.grimm
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                            Hi,

                            Same problem here.
                            Its an encrypted S3 remote to Backblaze.
                            Full mirror backup with selected VMs.
                            Small VM like Xen-Orchestra works. As soon as a large VM is added (approx. 500GB), the error occurs after about 3 hours.
                            Tried several times.

                            xen-orchestra build from source

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                            • olivierlambertO Offline
                              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                              last edited by

                              And with or without backup compression?

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                                daniel.grimm
                                last edited by

                                sorry... i forgot...
                                with zstd compression

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                                • olivierlambertO Offline
                                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                  last edited by

                                  Can you try without it and report?

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                                    daniel.grimm
                                    last edited by

                                    Yes.

                                    iam making a non compressed backup now.
                                    And then i try to mirror it with the mirroring job.

                                    Report follows... But uncompressed backup and upload will need some time

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                                      daniel.grimm
                                      last edited by

                                      So, same error after 3 hours of uploading/mirroring an uncompressed backup to the encrypted backblaze remote.

                                      transfer
                                      Start: 2024-09-17 07:27
                                      End: 2024-09-17 10:33
                                      Duration: 3 hours
                                      Error: Trying to add data in unsupported state
                                      
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                                      • olivierlambertO Offline
                                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                        last edited by

                                        I have the feeling it might be related to Backblaze and a potential timeout or something 🤔

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                                          daniel.grimm
                                          last edited by

                                          Before this error, I had the following error:

                                          transfer
                                                  Start: 2024-09-11 15:14
                                                  End: 2024-09-11 16:07
                                                  Duration: an hour
                                                  Error: no tomes available
                                              Start: 2024-09-11 15:14
                                              End: 2024-09-11 16:07
                                              Duration: an hour
                                              Error: no tomes available
                                          
                                          Start: 2024-09-11 15:14
                                          End: 2024-09-11 16:07
                                          Duration: an hour
                                          Error: no tomes available
                                          Type: full
                                          

                                          I was able to fix this by giving the xen-orchestra vm more RAM.
                                          I thought these were triggered by some kind of timeout.

                                          When the current error first occurred, I doubled the RAM again. Unfortunately that didn't help

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                                          • olivierlambertO Offline
                                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                            last edited by

                                            Error: no tomes available

                                            🤔 Never heard of this before.

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