Backups failing - Waiting for the number of running backups to drop below the system limit of

Submitted by cruiskeen on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 09:27

2 days ago we had an issue with a cloudmin virtual server where the file system somehow became corrupted during normal operation and the file system went read-only. We did an fsck on the file system, and the server came back up, and mostly seems to be running just fine, though the fsck seems to have removed a few files.

However, since that occurred, virtualmin backups are failing on the server. It seems to ALWAYS be waiting for the number of concurrent backups to fall below the limit. Tried setting it to unlimited backups, and it still insists that it is waiting for the number of running backups to drop below the system limit. Tried poking around and removed the backup lock files - but that seems not to have helped. Any help in debugging this would be greatly appreciated.

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:36

Does it help if you delete the files /etc/webmin/virtual-server/backupsrunning* ? This is where Virtualmin records which backups are currently active ..

Submitted by cruiskeen on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:49

Nope -- Already tried that. It still won't run.

Submitted by cruiskeen on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:52

Oh wait --- I'm a little confused. After I deleted backupsrunning again, and then reset the site to have a limit to the number of backups, now the backups seem to be running. It seemed to be unhappy about having unlimited backups for some reason. I think it's okay now. I'll let you know more definitively in a little while.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:56

That could be bug .. let us know if it works for you now.

Submitted by cruiskeen on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 12:35

After a little more testing, it appears that this really is a bug. If you set the number of backups to unlimited, they never run --- which is why I thought my fix of removing the file hadn't worked. If you set to unlimited, the backups always hang saying

Waiting for the number of running backups to drop below the system limit of

That's right --- just system limit of

I've tried this on 2 different systems, and the result is always the same.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 14:38

Yeah, that's a bug .. I will fix it in Virtualmin 3.79.

Submitted by Issues on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 20:19

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.