XCP-ng 8.3 betas and RCs feedback π
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@stormi
Of course, you shouldn't have a VM on the local storage.
It's also a good idea to write down the IPs, MACs and the number of the NICs beforehand. It can happen during the new installation that the order of the network cards changes.
Final tip: if you use iSCSI storage and use the iSCSI IQN as identification, you should also write this down beforehand and set it on the newly installed server before you put the server in the pool, otherwise you will have problems with the iSCSI storage. -
@stormi
Test with removed the NDB and CBT in the backup and removed the NBD interface in the pool.
Fullbackup Okay
Multiple delta backups all Okay no errors.
The error lies in the NBD or CBT.
But why not on the pool updated with yum from 8.3 RC2 ????Can someone create a new topic?
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@jhansen yum update not intended.
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@Tristis-Oris Not in your case?
In the Release Information about 8.3 you can read:
"Users who installed a prerelease of XCP-ng 8.3 must upgrade to the final 8.3.0 version using the installation ISO image. The only exception is for users who installed XCP-ng 8.3 RC2 or have already upgraded to RC2 using the installation ISO image. These users can simply update their system without needing the ISO image." -
@jhansen ah. maybe only this way.
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Status quo:
I have now reduced the problem to the NBD.
With an NBD full backup, everything seems to be working.
With a delta backup, NBD leaves snapshots that are blocked by the control domain of the various Xen servers. These can only be disconnected/forgotten and then deleted after a reboot of the hole pool or individual reboot of all Xen servers in the pool. The last option at least gives you the chance of a reboot without shutting down all VMs, if the pool has several Xen servers. But all servers in the pool must be rebooted.
Unfortunately, an xe-tool restart is not enough.
The activation/deactivation of CBT does not matter.
All backups without NBD run without errors.
This error occurs on all Xen servers installed from USB Image 8.3 officially. My lab pool, which was updated from 8.3RC2 to 8.3 Official via yum, doesn't seem to have the problem. 1 full backup and 4 delta backups ran without errors and without blocked snapshots.As I urgently need a current backup, I deactivated all NBD backups and set the server interface back to NO NBD. The standard delta backups are now running without errors again.
I left my LAB pool on NBD with CBT to see if the error occurs there in the next few days.
I actually wanted to create a new topic for the problem, but I'm not really sure which category I should put it under.
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i also removed one 8.3 pool from nbd backup, create the usual one. Looks it work fine.
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Hello,
Indeed, disabling NBD for the delta backups, they are no more VDI attached to Dom0.
My upgrade path was from 8.2.1 stable to 8.3 using the ISO installation.
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@Tristis-Oris @Mathieu
Hello, I'm glad I could help you, but it would be nice if the NBD worked. I was able to save a lot of space on the storage with NBD and CBT. I hope that in the not too distant future it will work again like in 8.2.1
My 8.3 LAB pool, updated with yum, made an error-free delta backup with NBD and CBT last night, just like my last 8.2.1 pool.
regards Joerg -
Since you are able to reproduce consistently the issue, it might be interesting to get more logs/debug to find the root cause Pinging @dthenot and all relevant people that could help in here
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@Ajmind-0 there may be more details in the log a bit before those last lines, and they would not be visible because of the screen size and volume of logs. You can switch to the console with a shell and have a look into
/tmp/install-log
, there may be some more useful info in there.