Hi Anshul, Had a look in ACS GUI and I can't find the 'volume.snapshot.job.cancel.threshold' option. Has it been introduced in ACS 4.7 or 4.8 versions? I am running 4.6.2 at the moment.
Thanks -- Andrei Mikhailovsky Director Arhont Information Security Web: http://www.arhont.com http://www.wi-foo.com Tel: +44 (0)870 4431337 Fax: +44 (0)208 429 3111 PGP: Key ID - 0x2B3438DE PGP: Server - keyserver.pgp.com DISCLAIMER The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may be confidential or contain legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any perusal, use, distribution, copying or disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please immediately advise us by return email at and...@arhont.com and delete and purge the email and any attachments without making a copy. ----- 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