Backup cleanup task starts but do not finish the job

[nebulon]

So since this is trying to remove things, while they are already gone. The log is maybe a bit misleading. Those are not critical as the intended outcome of the task is just already fulfilled. Basically those are just debug logs in the end.

[tobiasb]

When I trust systemctl status box-task-12345.service, then all 4 tasks try to remove the same ( rm -rf /mnt/cloudronbackup/myhost/2024-11-26-030148-145/app_n8n.example.org_v3.57.0).
I opened the process (rm -rf) with strace. which still runs syscall unlinkat/newfstatat. (pid 130049)

newfstatat(4, "tpgnVSb3898pzsvVCOpQQ-IwDccdLmSNWN1n-DYUdlo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2180, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
unlinkat(4, "tpgnVSb3898pzsvVCOpQQ-IwDccdLmSNWN1n-DYUdlo", 0) = 0

All other tasks tries the same:

newfstatat(4, "FRWM67Hwddxd+j4LlMw0eNkJtl1TB-NY4hupbahkGyTyWLn0Kduf8YTNra3FrvU3", 0x55fcd3be73e8, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
unlinkat(4, "FRWM67Hwddxd+j4LlMw0eNkJtl1TB-NY4hupbahkGyTyWLn0Kduf8YTNra3FrvU3", 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Summary:

box-task-21539.service 
  130049 rm -rf /mnt/cloudronbackup/myhost/2024-11-26-030148-145/app_n8n.example.org_v3.57.0 # still running
box-task-21538.service
  130047 rm -rf /mnt/cloudronbackup/myhost/2024-11-26-030148-145/app_n8n.example.org_v3.57.0
box-task-21543.service
  130046 rm -rf /mnt/cloudronbackup/myhost/2024-11-26-030148-145/app_n8n.example.org_v3.57.0
box-task-21545.service
  130048 rm -rf /mnt/cloudronbackup/myhost/2024-11-26-030148-145/app_n8n.example.org_v3.57.0

I will wait and see what will be happing when task 1 is finished.

[nebulon]

Ok so before we get into this, are the tasks finishing and if so, also sucessfully? Despite the log lines you had posted earlier, the files are also gone afterwards?

Trying to find out if there is anything to debug in the first place or if the log lines were just confusing.

[tobiasb]

@nebulon

The tasks are still running, box-task-21538.service started Sun 2024-12-08 23:30:02 UTC; so I need to wait to say which task was sucessfully, which not.

The directory /mnt/cloudronbackup/my_example_org/2024-11-14-030035-138 is gone from my first post.

[tobiasb]

The four jobs from about was all successfully.

So what I take from it. A job just start and do not care if the other job already runs, perhaps they try to cleanup the same.
And perhaps it is faster, because job A delete file A and job B can delete file B, when it is faster than job A.
I did not read the entire log to verify that this was the case.

Just a idea:

A cleanup-job should look/claim what it does so that a following job do not try it also and waste time to find out that the file list in his memory was already deleted.

[nebulon]

Yeah I guess the main question is, why some were even running parallel. Timewise they should be spaced out, so maybe those were just manually triggered or took unexpectedly long?

[tobiasb]

@nebulon

The jobs did not start on same time 23:30, 01:30, 03:30, 05:30.
At the moment only one cleanup is running.

[nebulon]

So 2 hours seem plenty of time to finish removing a bunch of files and folders, strange how they took so long then.

At least I don't see anything to fix as such, locking them can have other sideeffects and a task to do some file deletion isn't going to consume much resources anyways. Maybe the target filesystem in this case is very slow?

[tobiasb]

@nebulon Hetzner storagebox (Finland) and sshfs, rsync and encrypted filenames. The host fs (cloudron) is not a ssd (netcup).

[tobiasb]

I would say lets close this here. I do not see any failed cleanup jobs even multiple jobs try todo the same.