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Node backup is failing on one node due to OLDVARFS.TGZ does not exist

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Issue

  • Configuration backup is failing with an error:
[mgwd: configbr.backupFailed:alert]: The node configuration backup netapp02-02.8hour.2025-02-11.02_15_04.7z cannot be created. Error: 'Failed to create tarball for backup "netapp02-02.8hour.2025-02-11.02_15_04.7z". Error: Failed to create package with name "/mroot/etc/backups/.tmp/inner.netapp02-02.8hour.2025-02-11.02_15_04.7z"'.
  • MGWD on one node reports:
ERR: config-backup: '/etc/netapp_create_7z_backup /  -mx=3 -mmt=off -xr@/tmp/.native_7z_excludes /mroot/etc/backups/.tmp/inner.netapp02-02.8hour.2025-02-14.10_15_00.7z /mroot/etc/backups/.tmp/.tmp.bk.netapp02-02.8hour.12.1739524500 cfcard/x86_64/freebsd/OLDVARFS.TGZ ' failed, rc=0, ExitStatus=252, StdOut=  zipdirectory='/'
ERROR: backup file \'cfcard/x86_64/freebsd/OLDVARFS.TGZ\' does not exist
 
  • We see that the issue started when cluster revert is being tried:
boot.varfs.backup.issue:EMERGENCY]: Backup of the /var file system failed (varfs_backup_restore: Found 1 files missing in /var during backup)
  • After that on next reboot the node reports the following :
mv: rename /cfcard/x86_64/freebsd/oldvarfs.tmp to /cfcard/x86_64/freebsd/oldvarfs.tgz: File exists

 

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