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title: Solution for: Proxmox backup error due to iothread
url: https://devopstales.github.io/virtualization/proxmox-backup-error/
date: 2019-11-18
keywords: proxmox ve, proxmox cluster
---


If you see the following error when trying to backup a KVM VM image on Proxmox:

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```
ERROR: Backup of VM 100 failed – disk ‘scsi0’ ‘zfsvols:vm-100-disk-1’ (iothread=on) can’t use backup feature currently. Please set backup=no for this drive at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm line 77. INFO: Backup job finished with errors TASK ERROR: job errors
```


Posted on September 9, 2017 by Daniel Mettler
Solution for: Proxmox backup error due to iothread=1

If you see the following error when trying to backup a KVM VM image on Proxmox:

ERROR: Backup of VM 100 failed – disk ‘scsi0’ ‘zfsvols:vm-100-disk-1’ (iothread=on) can’t use backup feature currently. Please set backup=no for this drive at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/QemuServer.pm line 77. INFO: Backup job finished with errors TASK ERROR: job errors

edit /etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf, look for a line similar to

```
scsi0: zfsvols:vm-100-disk-1,iothread=1,size=70G
```

and change it to

```
scsi0: zfsvols:vm-100-disk-1,iothread=0,size=70G
# OR
scsi0: zfsvols:vm-100-disk-1,size=70G
```

After this you can backup the VM. This Problem was solvd in the proxmox 6 (pve-manager 6.0-11)