Error: tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Products

• VMware Integrated OpenStack

Issue/Introduction

• Backups no completing and erroring out
• Backup pods are in error state
• Back pod logs show similar to below:
  {"state":"Failed","conditions":{"backup-config":{"State":{"terminated":{"exitCode":0,"reason":"Completed","message":"OpenStack Deployment State: RUNNING\nsuccessfully created the backup of configuration of OpenStack control plane","startedAt":"2025-01-01T16:19:15Z","finishedAt":"2025-01-01T16:19:31Z","containerID":"docker://################################"}}},"backup-mariadb":{"State":{"terminated":{"exitCode":2,"reason":"Error","message":"tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now\ncommand terminated with exit code 2","startedAt":"2025-01-01T16:19:31Z","finishedAt":"2025-01-01T16:32:15Z","containerID":"docker://################################"}}},"upload":{"State":{"waiting":{"reason":"PodInitializing"}}}}}
: failed to create backup backup###: failed to create backup, see status of backup backup### for details

Environment

7.x

Cause

The database size on the database pods was too large to be compressed (tar) in the space remaining on the database pod.

Resolution

Cleanup of the Cinder, Glance and Nova databases should be done.  Follow these instructions to perform that operation.

Cleanup soft deleted volumes

Glance API Performance

Purge Nova database of deleted instances