backup deleting manual snapshots
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Now this is weird.
I created some snapshots before modifying some settings on some VM's. While I was testing stuff a scheduled (NBD+CBT) backup run.
After a while I wanted to revert to my snapshot and I realized that they were gone on some VM's (not all I snapshoted and that were backup up'ed). Only the respective delta snapshot remained.
What the heck???Xen Orchestra, commit 02f34
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@manilx Tried to disable NBD/CBT and retried. Same issue.
A few VM's delete the manual snapshots right before the backup job (of this VM) finishes.?????
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Hi,
You mean snapshots created "manually" right? XO will never remove those automatically, backup snaps are clearly "painted" and if they are not, they won't be removed
edit: you can check the audit log of XAPI (in the host /var/log) to try to check from where the snapshot removal was requested. If it's from XO, it doesn't tell if it was removed manually/by mistake or due to a bug.
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@olivierlambert I created manually backups, yes.
And they WERE deleted by the delta backup, no doubt about that one. I followed the backup task and when it reached 99% I looked at the VM snapshots and I saw it disappearing, when the task completed (this on all affected VM's).
This happened on 3 of 10 VM's, repeatably.
I then created a test task and this did not happen.
So I recreated the task with all the same settings: All went OK, no snaps deleted.So I found a workaround to get going again.
I have the log files if it interests you to check for a bug but I'm not at ease to do it
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Okay at least if you can provide a way to reproduce the issue with screenshots, we could probably try to see on our side, and that would be helpful
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@olivierlambert If the issue turns up again.... It was a weird one!
As I deleted the previous backup jobs I can't repeat. Just had to move on.Perhaps someone else stumbles upon this and finds this thread......
I will report if it happens again (will try it wit the new backup)
