On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:26:35AM +0200, Uwe Sauter wrote: > Hi Fabian, > > thanks for looking into this. > > As I already mentioned yesterday my NFS setup tries to use TCP as much as > possible so the only UDP port used / allowed in the NFS > servers firewall is udp/111 for Portmapper (to allow showmount to work). > > >> Issue 1: > >> Backups failed tonight with "Error: mount error: mount.nfs: /mnt/pve/aurel > >> is busy or already mounted". > >> > >> Question 1: > >> Do NFS shares that should be used for backups need to be "disabled" so > >> that the backup process just mount the share in preparation > >> of the backup? If so, there is a problem with the WebUI as I cannot select > >> a disabled storage location when defining or editing a > >> backup job. > >> > > > > no. I think your NFS share is (wrongly) detected as unmounted, since > > activate_storage in the NFS plugin will try to mount if nfs_is_mounted > > returned undef. in general activate_storage is supposed to detect if the > > storage is already activated and turn into a no-op if needed, and > > calling storage can treat it as idempotent. > > > > what does "grep aurel /proc/mounts" say on this machine? > > # grep aurel /proc/mounts > <ip of server>:/backup/proxmox-infra /mnt/pve/aurel nfs > rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=<ip > of > server>,mountvers=3,mountport=892,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=141.58.1.15 > 0 0
that looks okay.. > > > > >> > >> Issue 2: > >> When the backup process failed no email was sent to the specified address > >> though email notification mode is set to "always". > >> Emails in general do work, at least apticron sends update notifications > >> and sending mails from CLI also works. > >> > >> Question 2a: > >> Why was no email sent after the backup process failed? > >> > > > > can you post the complete log? > > Where can I find that? check the node's task history - should have an entry for the backup job including log. > > > > >> Question 2b: > >> Does the WebUI use a different method for sending emails? If so where can > >> this be configured? > > > > different from what? > > > > Different from what apticron and "echo test | mail -s test <recipient > address>" use. > there is /root/.forward which points to pvemailforward which uses "sendmail -bm -N never -f <FROM> <TO>" (using 'root' or the value from datacenter.cfg as sender, and the adress of 'root@pam' as recipient), and PVE::Tools::sendmail() (which is used by vzdump) which uses "sendmail -B 8BITMIME -f <FROM> <TO>" (with configurable sender and recipient). vzdump sets the sender to the one from datacenter.cfg as well, and the recipient to what is configured for the backup job. _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] https://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
