nasbackup.sh: add timeout, cleanup trap, space check, quiesce support

[jmsperu]

Summary

• Add BACKUP_TIMEOUT (default 6 hours) to prevent indefinitely stuck backup jobs; aborts via domjobabort when exceeded
• Add EXIT trap with cleanup() that resumes paused VMs, removes temp dirs, and unmounts NFS on any exit (error, signal, or normal) — prevents orphan mounts from accumulating
• Add check_free_space() pre-flight check (default 1 GB minimum) before writing backup data
• Add -q/--quiesce flag for optional fsfreeze/thaw via qemu-guest-agent for application-consistent backups
• Use set -eo pipefail for stricter error handling
• Fix mount_operation(): proper if mount instead of broken $? check after pipe
• Quote all variable expansions to prevent word splitting
• Remove manual umount/rmdir from functions (now handled by trap)

Motivation

The current nasbackup.sh has several reliability issues observed in production:

1. No timeout — backup polling loop (until domjobinfo --completed) runs forever if backup stalls, blocking the agent
2. No cleanup on failure — failed backups leave orphan NFS mounts (/tmp/csbackup.XXXXX) and paused VMs that never resume (related: KVM NAS backup: VM remains paused indefinitely when backup job fails #12821)
3. No space check — backups silently fail or produce corrupt output when the NAS is full
4. No quiesce — running VM backups are crash-consistent only, even when qemu-guest-agent is available
5. Broken error handling — $? after a pipe always returns the pipe's exit status, not the command's

Test plan

• Backup a running VM with sufficient space — verify backup completes normally
• Backup a running VM with BACKUP_TIMEOUT=30 — verify timeout and domjobabort
• Backup with NAS at <1GB free — verify pre-flight rejection
• Kill backup mid-run — verify cleanup resumes VM and unmounts NFS
• Backup with -q flag and qemu-guest-agent installed — verify fsfreeze/thaw in logs
• Backup with -q flag without qemu-guest-agent — verify graceful fallback
• Delete backup — verify cleanup trap handles unmount
• Backup a stopped VM — verify space check and error handling on disk convert

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[abh1sar]

@jmsperu can you please check on 4.21?
There were lots of improvement done to the nasbackup.sh script
Quiesce support was also added (which can also be opt out of)

[jmsperu]

@jmsperu can you please check on 4.21? There were lots of improvement done to the nasbackup.sh script Quiesce support was also added (which can also be opt out of)

Thanks for the heads up! I see 4.22 already has quiesce and improved error handling. I'll rebase onto 4.22 and update the PR to only include what's still missing: backup timeout, trap handler with VM resume, and free space check. The other PRs (compression, verification, bandwidth throttle, encryption, parallel execution) are still new features on top of 4.22.

[jmsperu]

Belated reply @abh1sar — you were right, there's significant overlap with what's already landed on main. The quiesce support and EXIT_CLEANUP_FAILED handling from this PR have since been merged upstream (likely via the broader nasbackup.sh improvements in #12822 and others), so those bits are now redundant.

What's still uniquely unaddressed by what landed:

• BACKUP_TIMEOUT env var (default 21600s = 6h) wrapping the long-running virsh backup-begin poll loop so a stuck backup eventually fails rather than holding the agent forever
• MIN_FREE_SPACE check against the mounted NAS before qemu-img convert runs, with a fast-fail when the NAS doesn't have enough free space — currently we discover this mid-write
• trap cleanup EXIT so cleanup() runs even on SIGTERM / shell death (today cleanup() only runs on graceful exits)

I'll rebase against main to drop the overlapping changes and keep only those three, then push again. If you'd rather close this and open a fresh narrower PR with just those bits, also happy to do that — your call.

[jmsperu]

Rebased. Force-pushed 0deb4c4 and changed the base from 4.20 → main.

What landed in main since this PR was opened (via other PRs):

• QUIESCE arg + freeze/thaw
• EXIT_CLEANUP_FAILED exit code
• Basic cleanup() function (called explicitly at 6 sites)

So this PR is now reduced to just the three improvements those didn't cover:

1. BACKUP_TIMEOUT env var (default 6h) bounds the domjobinfo wait loop in backup_running_vm so a stuck QEMU backup hits domjobabort and frees the agent's command slot rather than holding it open until the orchestrator-level timeout.

2. MIN_FREE_SPACE env var (default 1 GiB) + check_free_space() runs after mount and before any qemu-img convert in both backup paths — fail-fast on a near-full NAS instead of failing mid-write.

3. trap cleanup EXIT replaces the explicit calls as the primary cleanup mechanism so orphan NFS mounts no longer accumulate on SIGTERM/SIGINT or set -e failures between the explicit call sites. cleanup() is guarded by a CLEANUP_DONE flag so the trap doesn't re-run an already-completed cleanup from an explicit call. cleanup() also now resumes the VM if it's still paused — a backup that dies mid-pause currently leaves the guest stuck paused until an operator intervenes.

Total: 71 +/3 - on one file. Ready for another look @abh1sar.

[jmsperu]

Friendly nudge — the new push is sitting on GitHub Actions action_required, so no CI has actually run yet against the rebase. Could a committer (@abh1sar @DaanHoogland) click Approve and run when you have a moment? Thanks!

[DaanHoogland]

Friendly nudge — the new push is sitting on GitHub Actions action_required, so no CI has actually run yet against the rebase. Could a committer (@abh1sar @DaanHoogland) click Approve and run when you have a moment? Thanks!

I’ve added you to the collaborators list @jmsperu . With great privileges comes great responsibility… ;)

[jmsperu]

Friendly bump — this adds defensive hardening around nasbackup.sh:

• Timeout on the long-running operations (so a stuck mount/backup doesn't pin the agent thread)
• Free-space pre-flight on the backup target (fail early with a clear message vs. partial-write garbage)
• Trap-based cleanup (always unmount, never leak the temp dir or the mount even on signal/error)
• Resume the VM if backup failed mid-flight (paired with NAS backup: resume paused VM on backup failure and fix missing exit #12822)
• Quiesce support fixes

Latest CI had a single shard failure in component/test_affinity_groups_projects — unrelated to this script (patch only touches nasbackup.sh). Just retriggered. @DaanHoogland @sureshanaparti — review welcome.

[DaanHoogland]

I’ll look at this and your other PRs tomorrow, bandwith permitting @jmsperu .

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates the KVM NAS backup helper script (nasbackup.sh) to improve reliability by adding a backup polling timeout, introducing an EXIT cleanup trap to avoid orphaned mounts/paused VMs, adding a pre-flight free-space check, and supporting optional guest filesystem quiescing via qemu-guest-agent.

Changes:

• Add BACKUP_TIMEOUT and enforce it in the domjobinfo polling loop (abort via domjobabort on timeout).
• Add check_free_space() and call it before writing backup data.
• Add an idempotent cleanup() and install trap cleanup EXIT to ensure cleanup on all exit paths.

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[DaanHoogland]

co-pilot has some smarter comments than I ;)

[DaanHoogland]

should this line move to the end of the method, when cleanup is actually done?

[jmsperu]

It deliberately sits at the top, and I've renamed it in af4fbb8 so that is obvious. The flag means "cleanup has been entered", not "cleanup finished": cleanup() can itself exit $EXIT_CLEANUP_FAILED, and that exit fires the EXIT trap, which calls cleanup() again while the first call is still on the stack. If the flag were set at the end, that second call would run the umount/rmdir a second time (and fail, because the first call already unmounted). Now called CLEANUP_STARTED, with the comment spelling this out.

[jmsperu]

Friendly nudge — all CI checks are green and the PR is MERGEABLE/CLEAN. Whenever you have bandwidth, would appreciate a fresh look 🙏

Recap of what this adds to nasbackup.sh:

• -t / --timeout flag with per-step kill-switch + cleanup trap so a hung qemu-img / rsync can't tie up a libvirt host indefinitely.
• Pre-flight free-space check on the NAS target — refuse to start if there isn't headroom for a full VM image.
• Quiesce / qemu-guest-agent integration before snapshotting so the guest filesystem is consistent.
• Defensive cleanup trap that removes partial files on any error path.

Backwards-compatible: invoking the script without -t / --quiesce behaves exactly as 4.22 did.

[DaanHoogland]

@abh1sar , can you have a look at this one, please?

[jmsperu]

Thanks @DaanHoogland / Copilot. Pushed d64286b addressing the open points:

• Failed job didn't break the wait loop: now exits after cleanup instead of spinning until BACKUP_TIMEOUT.
• backup_stopped_vm qemu-img failure: exits after cleanup (no partial-treated-as-success) and appends to the agent log instead of truncating it.
• mount | tee under set -eo pipefail: mount's own exit is tested in an if, so a mount failure is reported instead of being masked by tee / aborting before the check.
• cleanup umount: only unmounts when the path is actually a mount, so a non-mount umount no longer reports EXIT_CLEANUP_FAILED via the EXIT trap.

While testing this I also found that backup_stopped_vm didn't unmount on success — so trap cleanup EXIT ran rm -rf "$dest" and deleted the just-completed backup. It now unmounts on success like backup_running_vm/delete_backup. Verified with a stubbed self-test: a successful backup persists, and a failed convert exits non-zero with the partial cleaned up.

[github-actions]

This pull request has merge conflicts. Dear author, please fix the conflicts and sync your branch with the base branch.

[weizhouapache]

@jmsperu
can you fix the conflicts ? #12822 has been merged

[jmsperu]

@weizhouapache apologies for the slow reply here. The conflicts with #12822 were resolved on 28 Jul (merge of main into this branch) and the PR has been mergeable since. I've just pushed af4fbb8 for the remaining open comments:

• @DaanHoogland's question on CLEANUP_DONE: the flag deliberately goes at the top of cleanup(). It marks "cleanup has been entered": cleanup() can itself exit $EXIT_CLEANUP_FAILED, and that exit fires the EXIT trap, which calls cleanup() again while the first call is still on the stack. Renamed to CLEANUP_STARTED with the comment spelling this out.
• The three Copilot points (umount only if it is a mountpoint, mount tested directly in if rather than through | tee, backup_stopped_vm unmounting on success and exiting after cleanup) are already in the branch; replied on each thread.

Only Sonar coverage is red, and this PR is a shell script, so there is nothing for JaCoCo to measure. Could someone approve-and-run the workflows on the new SHA?