[lxc-users] Big snapshots abort...

[Guido Jäkel]

Hi,

Does the rsync use -z? Is it the bug filed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1384503 ?

greetings

Guido

On 01.12.2016 13:28, Michel Dubé wrote:
> Hi Rémy,
> 
> There is a lot of space on that server and I did an rsync of that container
> manually.
> 
> The strange thing is that at the end of the snapshot, all the files and
> directories had been copied to the snapshot directory but the snapshot
> process initiated by the snapshot command never got terminated. So I made
> several tries to understand what was going on. Every time, after I killed
> the snapshot command, the related container's snapshot directory got
> deleted.  That's why I reported the issue.
> 
> Like I said in a previous message, I will move all the stuff hosted on that
> server to another one (ZFS) soon. So I don't really care about the problem
> but may be someone else could bump on it too.  I don't know.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Michel Dubé
> 
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=
> 
> 2016-12-01 5:38 GMT-05:00 Rémy Dernat <remy.d1 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just a stupid question; did you try to copy 25GB on this space with rsync
>> otherwise ? I mean it could be a "not enough space" problem or any other
>> issue not directly related to the snapshot itself.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> 2016-12-01 11:15 GMT+01:00 Michel Dubé <md at humanity.net>:
>>
>>> You're right, I don't use ZFS on this system. In fact, this is the first
>>> LXC system I setup more than one year ago and I wanted to keep it as simple
>>> as possible.
>>> But I plan to move all these containers to a new server (16.04) using ZFS
>>> soon.
>>> Thanks Serge.
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=
>>>
>>> 2016-11-25 22:36 GMT-05:00 Serge Victor <dr.serge at random.re>:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Michel Dubé <md at humanity.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> error: rsync failed: rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32)
>>>>> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(837)
>>>>> [sender=3.1.0]
>>>>
>>>> What is the underlaying filesystem? I bet you don't use ZFS or BTRFS,
>>>> which have snapshotting features built-in, why?
>>>>
>>>> S.
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