<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Backup failures after VHD to QCOW2 conversion]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hi everyone,</p>
<p dir="auto">After migrating VMs between pools and converting their disks from VHD to QCOW2, some VMs repeatedly fail during backup export and snapshot cleanup. Other QCOW2 VMs and VHD-backed VMs back up successfully.</p>
<h2>Environment</h2>
<ul>
<li>Two XCP-ng 8.3 hosts, both updated and rebooted</li>
<li>Shared LVM-over-iSCSI storage on Synology (approximately 8.6 TiB free)</li>
<li>NBD enabled</li>
<li>XO Server 5.213.0, commit a50776cb7, running in the Ronivay Docker image</li>
</ul>
<h2>Recurring errors</h2>
<p dir="auto">QCOW2 export times out and falls back to a full:</p>
<pre><code>BodyTimeoutError: Body Timeout Error
code: UND_ERR_BODY_TIMEOUT
can't compute delta …, fall back to a full
</code></pre>
<p dir="auto">Other export attempts receive a host storage-backend error:</p>
<pre><code>invalid HTTP header in response body
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Error
SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_1200
</code></pre>
<p dir="auto">The response includes a failed disk-close operation:</p>
<pre><code>tapdisk_control_close_image: device qcow2:… still open
tap-ctl close … -t 120
Connection timed out
status=110
</code></pre>
<p dir="auto">Snapshot cleanup then fails:</p>
<pre><code>Couldn't disconnect … from dom0
OPERATION_NOT_ALLOWED: VBD … still attached to …
VDI_IN_USE(…, destroy)
</code></pre>
<p dir="auto">We confirmed that the affected attachments belong to snapshot VDIs in dom0. Repeated VBD.unplug_force operations appear, and backup retries encounter the same problem.</p>
<p dir="auto">The problem persists after updating and rebooting both hosts and updating XO.</p>
<p dir="auto">Has anyone experienced similar QCOW2 backup and snapshot cleanup failures after a cross-pool migration? Is there a known fix or recommended recovery procedure?</p>
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