No space left on device 1

[aking]

Hi, i have 2 esx servers, Esx server A and B. I'm trying to save backups of some of the VM's on server A to server B and vice versa.

i've made sure there is a lot of free space on each (one has 330GB, the other has 240GB of free space).

I am using Veeam backup (dont have a San so cant use VCB).

I keep getting error messages about no disk space.
e.g. "Error during copy of file: scp: /tmp/vee86bb39f8-4b18-47e5-b0a6-c6f11fb13240/.veeamlib.tar: No space left on device"

Basically I can save backups to anywhere on the network except to either ESX server. Sometimes the backup begins and then stops with an error, the largest file i've found on either esx server has been 3.5GB, (size of server i'm trying to backup is about 40GB), sometimes it errors straight away and nothing is written to disk.

Does anyone have any clues? This worked ok last week. I'm not getting any other errors. Not sure where to start....

 

[Roadki11]

It looks like its trying to write something to the temp dir of the the ESX OS root partition. I think by default that partition is only around 5 gig before the ESX OS footprint. Looks like veeam may be taring the guest to this location before writing it to your vmfs storage? Not totally sure. When you do the veeam copy do you get an option of where to put temp files?


RoadKi11

"This apparent fear reaction is typical, rather than try to solve technical problems technically, policy solutions are often chosen." - Fred Cohen

 

[aking]

RoadKi11.
You were on the right lines, backup needed to put some files in the temp dir - for the backup agent i think.
Freed up space on that partition and it all started working again.
Nice1, thanks

 

[Roadki11]

Glad i could help.



RoadKi11

"This apparent fear reaction is typical, rather than try to solve technical problems technically, policy solutions are often chosen." - Fred Cohen