Backup task is not stopping for last two days

[husayt]

Hi we have an issue where the backup task keeps firing and never stops, until we purge the queue.

This is the task in question:

appengine-mrcontrol-157713723607233BF95B3-15045 ↓

2014/08/20 05:21:21 0:00:00 ago

2014/08/20 05:21:19 0:00:03 ago

POST /_ah/mapreduce/controller_callback/157713723607233BF95B3

1666 bytes

We have been using it for about a year without issues and now suddenly it is doing this.

Any ideas what could be causing this. 

It is cron fired backup task (normal, NONmanaged) fired by cron every night. Usually runs for an hour , but these two days it never stopped

[Ryan Huebsch]

This is usually an indication that the MapReduce used to perform the backup has gotten stuck. There should be an error located in the application logs (look under the "ah-builtin-python-bundle" version) that will help explain why the MapReduce got stuck. Pausing then purging the task queue is the best way to stop the job.

[husayt]

Thanks Ryan I will try that.

By the way, is there any progress with enabling managed backup for selected namespaces?

It was few months ago we checked last. It would be great to finally be able to use that.

Bets, 

Huseyn