[PCA 2.x] Pca-backup Fails to Backup Local OVCA Files Post 2.4.3.1 Upgrade (Doc ID 2878442.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 12, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

Daily pca-backup crontab job fails post upgrade to PCA version 2.4.3.1

 ovca.log files shows following error:

  INFO (ovm:37) Beginning OVMM backup.
  DEBUG (mgmt:1523) Found logfiles in config ['/var/log/ovca.log', '/var/log/ovca-backup.log', '/var/log/ovca-cli.log','/nfs/shared_storage/logs/ovca_snmptrapd.log', '/var/log/ovca-sync.log','/var/log/ovca-diagnosis.log', '/var/log/ovca-monitor.log','/var/log/ovca-faultmonitor.log']
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovca/mgmt.py", line 1542, in backup_local_files
  Error: [('/etc/rc3.d/S25rdma-settings',
  '/nfs/shared_storage/backups/2022_06_15-09.00.01/ovca/etc-192.168.4.3/rc3.d/S25rdma-settings', "[Errno 2] No such file or directory:
  <...>
  '/nfs/shared_storage/backups/2022_06_15-09.00.01/ovca/etc-192.168.4.3/rc4.d/S25rdma-settings', "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/rc4.d/S25rdma-settings'")]

  ERROR (mgmt:1578) Failure during OVCA backup!
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovca/mgmt.py", line 1562, in ovca_backup raise Exception('Failed to backup Local OVCA files!')
  Exception: Failed to backup Local OVCA files!

Changes

Upgrade to PCA 2.4.3.1

Cause

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