<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Hello All,</div><div><br></div><div>I have been trying to do a simple volume backup and restore on a devstack setup on a new Ubuntu VM, but have been having difficulties. After I create the volume (using "cinder create 1") and the volume has an "available" status, I create a backup of the volume using "cinder backup-create <volume>". After I do this, the volume stays stuck in a "backing-up" status, and the backup is stuck in a "creating" status. I have left the VM up for over three days, and the statuses of both remain unchanged. I am assuming that a backup should take place fairly quickly, especially for a 1GB volume, so I think there must be an issue with my setup.</div><div><br></div><div>For my devstack setup, I have the following in localrc (as per the instructions for Swift at <a href="http://devstack.org/localrc.html">http://devstack.org/localrc.html</a>). </div><div><br></div><div><div>ENABLED_SERVICES+=,swift</div><div>SWIFT_HASH=66a3d6b56c1f479c8b4e70ab5c2000f5</div><div>SWIFT_REPLICAS=1</div><div>SWIFT_DATA_DIR=$DEST/data</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>I have tried creating a backup of a volume both with and without swift enabled, and see the same issues. I have also tried creating a container before creating the backup. I have tried with a VM that has 1024MB of memory, one with 2048MB of memory, and one with 4096MB of memory. I have tried with a VM that has 8GB of storage, and one that has 16GB of storage. I have also enabled SYSLOG, but I don't see any errors that stand out. When I run the "swift.sh" script in the devstack/exercises directory, it executes successfully.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this problem? Is there a configuration file that needs to be changed, or are there minimum memory and storage requirements in order to backup a volume?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your help.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Brianna Poulos</div></div></div></body></html>