Comment 11 for bug 1681839

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Patrick Best (bestpa) wrote : Re: libvirt - disk not ready for pivot yet

Happened again. Same VM, too. My backup script made it through 3 of these, one hda, and one vda as well. Then this:

-------------BEGIN backup for VM called mail
Sat Apr 22 00:07:51 EDT 2017
current snapshots mail - should be empty
 Name Creation Time State
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initial blklist and snapshot list mail
Target Source
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vda /images2/mail.img
hdb /home/bestpa/iso/ubuntu-14.04.5-server-amd64.iso

 Name Creation Time State
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block type is vda
image location is /images2/mail.img
creating snapshot for mail
Domain snapshot mail-snap1 created
current snapshots for mail
 Name Creation Time State
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 mail-snap1 2017-04-22 00:07:52 -0400 disk-snapshot

  performing FIRST TIME SPARSE rsync for mail
mail.img

sent 77.70G bytes received 35 bytes 75.11M bytes/sec
total size is 77.68G speedup is 1.00
I am done with the rsync.
current blklist mail
Target Source
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vda /images2/mail.mail-snap1
hdb /home/bestpa/iso/ubuntu-14.04.5-server-amd64.iso

blockcommit mail
Block commit: [100 %]error: failed to pivot job for disk vda
error: block copy still active: disk 'vda' not ready for pivot yet