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Fail to Backup the OVM VM To NFS Repository using the Ovm-bkp Utility (Doc ID 2793907.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle VM - Version 3.4.6 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

An issue with the backing up of VMs to the NFS based repository using the ovm-bkp utility.

>>https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/ovm-bkp-userguide-v1-4394642.pdf

 The backup of the VM gets stuck at the following step:
# Waiting for Vm moving to complete......900 seconds

On aborting the VM backup post this error message:
VM backup is shown in the list of VM backups:
./ovm-listbackup.sh VM-abc
====================================================================================
=====> Backup available for guest VM-abc (sorted by date) : <====================
=============================================================================================
= BACKUP TYPE == BACKUP DATE == BACKUP TIME == BACKUP NAME == PRESERVED ==
=============================================================================================
= FULL == 20210613 == 0559 == VM-abc-FULL-20210613-0559 == NO
= FULL == 20210627 == 0724 == VM-abc-FULL-20210627-0724 == NO
= FULL == 20210704 == 0939 == VM-abc-FULL-20210704-0939 == NO
= FULL == 20210708 == 0953 == VM-abc-FULL-20210708-0953 == NO <<<<<=============================================================================================

The VM virtual disks are backed up in the repository and the VM hot clone is visible on the Oracle VM Server
However, the VM File is not seen in the NFS Repository under the VM File folder.

The NFS was created from the OVM Manager server.
# nfsstat -m
/OVS/Repositories/uuid from xx.yy.zz.qq:/backup_OVM
Flags: rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=524288,wsize=524288,namlen=255,soft,nosharecache,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=xx.yy.zz.qq,mountvers=3,mountport=20048,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=xx.yy.zz.qq

Cause

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