[DRBD-user] Backing up VMware VM's running DRBD with VMware Data Recovery (VDR)

Mark Watts m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com
Fri Feb 17 10:28:58 CET 2012

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


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I have a pair of CentOS 5.7 VM's running an LVM/DRBD/EXT3 Pri/Sec cluster.

Since we use VDR to take snapshots of our VM's I naturally added these
two VM's to the backup rota.

Pretty much every night I get hundreds of errors in the VDR logs
relating to the Primary, giving the message:

"Failed to create snapshot for VDR01, error -3960 ( cannot quiesce
virtual machine)"


I'm taking a wild guess at this perhaps being related to DRBD; can
anyone suggest whether this is the issue?


Mark.

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Mark Watts BSc RHCE
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