{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/7","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/7/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/7/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/7/events","html_url":"https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/7","id":67679717,"number":7,"title":"fails to quiesce running rsync and gluster","user":{"login":"magicrobotmonkey","id":3372975,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3372975?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey","html_url":"https://github.com/magicrobotmonkey","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/magicrobotmonkey/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-04-10T20:48:59Z","updated_at":"2015-04-10T22:00:19Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I have a host on ESX which I'm using to rsync on to gluster. When the nightly backups occur, I get hung_task_timeouts and the snapshot fails because of a failure to quiesce. The backup guy claims we cannot turn off quiesced backups because we are using a 3rd party backup solution. Is there I way I can disable quiescing from the machine itself?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/comments/91704155","html_url":"https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/7#issuecomment-91704155","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/7","id":91704155,"user":{"login":"ravindravmw","id":7410128,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7410128?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw","html_url":"https://github.com/ravindravmw","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ravindravmw/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-10T22:00:19Z","updated_at":"2015-04-10T22:00:19Z","body":"Yes, you can disable quiescing from the guest if you know for sure that's what you really want. Following are the steps:\r\n\r\n1. Create /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf file in the guest\r\n2. Have following configuration in the file above:\r\n\r\n# Start\r\n[vmbackup]\r\nenableSyncDriver=false\r\n# End\r\n\r\nThis will make open-vm-tools lie about quiescing, so use this as a last resort when you absolutely don't want quiescing or when you want a temporary workaroud when the issues is being looked into. In most of the cases, you might need to get VMware support involved to figure out what is going on with your VM.\r\n\r\nPS: github is not the right platform for discussing such questions, please consider using VMware Community forums for such questions and limit github for open-vm-tools project specific issues (e.g. download/build etc)."}}