Hi Anshul, Many thanks for the suggestion. I will try that right away.
Cheers Andrei ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anshul Gangwar" <anshul.gang...@citrix.com> > To: "dev" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> > Sent: Friday, 5 February, 2016 09:40:49 > Subject: Re: Pesky volume snapshot schedule > Try setting "volume.snapshot.job.cancel.threshold" value greater than > "backup.snapshot.wait" value. This will make sure that backup snapshot is > cancelled before job cancellation. This in turn will take care of cleanup of > old snapshots. > > Regards, > Anshul > > On 05-Feb-2016, at 2:53 PM, Andrei Mikhailovsky > <and...@arhont.com<mailto:and...@arhont.com>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I was hoping someone could help me investigate and fix the issue that I am > having with one of the volume snapshots schedules. I am running ACS version > 4.6.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 with latest updates, etc. > > I've got a 200 gig vm root disk image which I am snapshotting on a daily > basis. > I've created the schedule to take a snapshot at 9:30pm every day and keeping 8 > snapshots. The schedule is executing and the image is being snapshotted and > placed on the nfs secondary storage. However, ACS does not remove the old > snapshots at all and I am ending up with dozens and dozens of snapshots of > this > particular volume. I have to manually remove them to keep the secondary > storage > from filling up. The problem is with this particular volume. I've got several > other daily snapshots schedules which are working perfectly well and their > clean up works well as well. > > I've compared db values for this particular volume with other volumes and I > can't find any difference apart from the disk size. The db values for the > schedule are also correct and look similar to a properly working schedule > (apart from the start time). I've also tried to remove the schedule and create > a new one at no avail. > > Could someone help me fix the issue? > > Many thanks > > Andrei
