<![CDATA[Backup failing with unspecified error]]>First backup after restoring Cloudron is failing with the following error:

box:backups nextcloud.domain Unable to backup { BoxError: Backuptask crashed
at /home/yellowtent/box/src/backups.js:872:29
at f (/home/yellowtent/box/node_modules/once/once.js:25:25)
at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/yellowtent/box/src/shell.js:69:9)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:448:20)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)
name: 'BoxError',
reason: 'Internal Error',
details: {},
message: 'Backuptask crashed' }
Jan 02 06:37:07 box:taskworker Task took 16626.103 seconds
Jan 02 06:37:07 box:tasks setCompleted - 1205: {"result":null,"error":{"stack":"BoxError: Backuptask crashed\n at /home/yellowtent/box/src/backups.js:872:29\n at f (/home/yellowtent/box/node_modules/once/once.js:25:25)\n at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/yellowtent/box/src/shell.js:69:9)\n at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)\n at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:448:20)\n at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)","name":"BoxError","reason":"Internal Error","details":{},"message":"Backuptask crashed"}}
Jan 02 06:37:07 box:tasks 1205: {"percent":100,"result":null,"error":{"stack":"BoxError: Backuptask crashed\n at /home/yellowtent/box/src/backups.js:872:29\n at f (/home/yellowtent/box/node_modules/once/once.js:25:25)\n at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/yellowtent/box/src/shell.js:69:9)\n at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)\n at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:448:20)\n at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)","name":"BoxError","reason":"Internal Error","details":{},"message":"Backuptask crashed"}}

I'm using rsync.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/4113/backup-failing-with-unspecified-errorRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 15:58:51 GMTSat, 02 Jan 2021 18:27:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:21:05 GMT]]>don't forget the network timeouts with optimized TCP settings, which can disconnect too early.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/23232https://forum.cloudron.io/post/23232Tue, 12 Jan 2021 05:21:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:54:42 GMT]]>@zjuhasz1 What kind of timeout are you hitting? Do you have any logs/error message?

There are two high level timeouts - one is the various things like upload/copy etc during the backup process. I can tell you how to tweak them, if this is where it's failing. The other timeout is that the entire backup can take a day at most. After a day, the backup is killed (because it's assumed we probably hit some bug).

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/23225https://forum.cloudron.io/post/23225Tue, 12 Jan 2021 01:54:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:18:28 GMT]]>@girish Realized I already asked about a timeout on my old account. I think I am just running into that again now.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/23204https://forum.cloudron.io/post/23204Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:18:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 06:07:49 GMT]]>@zjuhasz1 I suspect your issue is something else then. Can you contact us to on support@cloudron.io, I will need access to the server to debug what is happening. Thanks

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22920https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22920Wed, 06 Jan 2021 06:07:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:47:22 GMT]]>@girish Automatic backups are also failing for me, so would this fix not address it? I am doing another run now with significantly reduced concurrency.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22918https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22918Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:47:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:11:50 GMT]]>@zjuhasz1 I think we (@imc67 and I) found the reason. Can you confirm that the backups are failing when you take an app backup from the apps view (as opposed to the Backups view?)? If so, the fix is this:

  • Open /home/yellowtent/box/src/apptaskmanager.js
  • Line 76 or so is like this:
    tasks.startTask(taskId, { logFile, timeout: 20 * 60 * 60 * 1000 /* 20 hours */, nice: 15 }, function (error, result) {

Change it to (just adds memoryLimit):

    tasks.startTask(taskId, { logFile, timeout: 20 * 60 * 60 * 1000 /* 20 hours */, nice: 15, memoryLimit: 4 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 }, function (error, result) {
  • systemctl restart box
  • Now take a backup.
]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22912https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22912Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:11:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:38:27 GMT]]>@zjuhasz1 yes

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22893https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22893Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:38:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:35:03 GMT]]>@imc67 Are you using rsync?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22892https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22892Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:35:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:08:20 GMT]]>@zjuhasz1 and @girish I think this looks like the same with my issue!

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/4129/update-to-4-1-0-1-23-0-failed

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22887https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22887Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:08:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:02:14 GMT]]>@girish It was already at 40GB but I increased it to 64 and reduced the concurrent uploads. It does seem to be crashing when uploading very large files. Does it need to store the entire file its uploading in memory or does it break large files into parts? I don't understand if the multi part upload size is used for rsync also or just tgz backups.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22884https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22884Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:02:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:39:58 GMT]]>@zjuhasz1 said in Backup failing with unspecified error:

SIGKILL

Usually, this indicates that it got killed because of out of memory. Under backups -> configure, there is a memory limit slider. Can you give it lot more memory and try the backup again?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22854https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22854Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:39:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:08:47 GMT]]>@girish I forgot one more line Jan 04 06:16:13 box:shell backup-snapshot/app_dd36cce2-7674-4985-b671-a7dcd2d96a6c code: null, signal: SIGKILL. The rest of the log is just the normal uploading messages. I'd post the whole thing but there are a lot of file names I'd rather not share.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22823https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22823Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:08:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Backup failing with unspecified error on Mon, 04 Jan 2021 01:15:06 GMT]]>@zjuhasz1 is there anything in the backup logs?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22736https://forum.cloudron.io/post/22736Mon, 04 Jan 2021 01:15:06 GMT