Setting "Protect from accidental deletion" breaks with backups and healtchecks

probain

Having the flag "Protect from accidental deletion" has since yesterday left me with plenty of restored VMs. In the backup logs, it indicates that this happens during the healthcheck.

This has happened on 3 out of 6 VMs
Update: The other 3 VMs were opt-out from Healthchecks. So that is why this didn't affect them.

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 transfer
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Duration: a few seconds
Size: 2.01 GiB
Speed: 81.14 MiB/s
 health check 
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Duration: 19 minutes
 vmstart 
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Error: forbidden operation: destroy is blocked: protected from accidental deletion
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Duration: 20 minutes
Error: forbidden operation: destroy is blocked: protected from accidental deletion
 Clean VM directory 
 cleanVm: incorrect backup size in metadata
 merge
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Duration: a minute
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Greg_E

@probain

Not that this is an answer, but what happens if you uncheck the deletion box, and delete them manually?

Pilow

@Greg_E i think protection is doing its job. do not delete.
but in case of healthcheck, the process should bypass that for the restored VM

thoughts @bastien-nollet @florent ?

florent

@Pilow clearly that is a bug

probain

@Greg_E

Manually unchecking makes the problem go away..
And I can also delete manually (after unchecking the HC-vms)