borg failed to create/acquire the lock.exclusive

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When running a backup script through a scheduled Jenkins job on many servers, I receive the following error on borg create command:

Failed to create/acquire the lock /path/to/repo/lock.exclusive (timeout).
terminating with error status, rc 2

OS : Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic and Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Borg version: 1.1.15 PS: I had tried some solution like borg break-lock, and upgrade the borg version to the latest 1.1.17 and same problem

Update:

Fixed adding --max-lock-wait 3600 to borg create command to increase lock-wait timeout by default it is 2 seconds, Thanks to ThomasWaldmann from BorgBackup community. https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/6047#issuecomment-967092381

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1 Answers

I had the same problem in Borg 1.20. My search led to a few suggestions, including:

  • Delete <BackupDir>/lock.roster (see ITGrenade)
  • If it doesn't work to make sure there are no other backups running, and then use borg break-lock as described in the manual, check ps aux or just restart to ensure borg is not still running (see SolvedTips)

I had success with a variation on the latter: unmount the Borg drive, delete the mount point, make sure nothing else is running that might lock the drive, and then recreate the mount point and restart the Borg process.

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