Handling Multipath Devices

[togenshi]

Hey,

I have an issue with multipath devices. When I do a "entire system" backup, it seems to proceed through the lsblk list. Unfortunately the drive is wish to be backed up can be in set up on anyone of the blk devices.

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root@sloth:/export# lsblk
NAME                        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                           8:0    0 557.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1                        8:1    0   243M  0 part /boot
├─sda2                        8:2    0     1K  0 part 
└─sda5                        8:5    0 557.5G  0 part 
  ├─sloth--vg-root (dm-0)   252:0    0 541.5G  0 lvm  /
  └─sloth--vg-swap_1 (dm-1) 252:1    0    16G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
sdb                           8:16   0     1T  0 disk 
└─sdb1                        8:17   0  1024G  0 part 
sdc                           8:32   0     1T  0 disk 
└─sdc1                        8:33   0  1024G  0 part 
sdd                           8:48   0     1T  0 disk 
└─sdd1                        8:49   0  1024G  0 part /export/san-1
sde                           8:64   0     1T  0 disk 
└─sde1                        8:65   0  1024G  0 part 

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create: 3600a09800059dbb9000002a955c35df0 undef DELL    ,MD38xxf         
size=1.0T features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=undef
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=undef
| `- 2:0:0:0 sdb         8:16  undef ready running
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=undef
| `- 2:0:1:0 sdc         8:32  undef ready running
|-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=undef
| `- 2:0:2:0 sdd         8:48  undef ready running
`-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=undef
  `- 2:0:3:0 sde         8:64  undef ready running

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 11:29:42        Backed up sda 245.0 MB at 56.4 MB/s                                                                      00:00:05
      11:30:28        Backed up sdb 202.2 GB at 159.0 MB/s                                                                     00:21:43
      11:53:03        [error] Backing up sdc                                                                                   00:00:02
      11:53:08        [error] Failed to perform backup
      11:53:08        [error] The specified item was already backed up or backup was not completed
      11:53:08        [error] Failed to download disk
      11:53:08        [error] read: End of file
      11:53:08        [error] Failed to upload disk
      11:53:08        [error] Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}

Any chance to make the agent multipath aware?

[PTide]

Hi,

Please provide logs (press M in the main menu and exports logs to an archive).

Thank you.

[togenshi]

I screwed up setting up multipathing but not sure if you wish to interpret this as an error still. Waiting on maintenance window to fix multipath.
Veeam Log:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B46Ua4 ... sp=sharing

[PTide]

Do you mean that multipath had been already screwed up before you started the backup?

[togenshi]

There wasn't a profile setup for the SAN model we have and since we used UUID to mount the partitions, linux didn't care if the partition was found on drives sd[b-e].

[PTide]

So does the issue persist after multipath reconfiguration?

[togenshi]

Looks like the agent to picking up the devices from /dev/mapper/<id> instead of sd[b-e]. Still running the backup. I expect this should be ok.

[togenshi]

Issue resolved and confirmed issue is fixed.

[Mike Resseler]

Togenshi,

Thanks for coming back to us and confirming it is fixed. It is appreciated!