Migrate an LXC container from older Proxmox version

arbermejo

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I'm trying to migrate an LXC container from hosts with Proxmox versions 4.4-1 and 4.0-48 to 5.2-10. So what i have done untill now was a tar.gz backup and i copied it to my newer Proxmox version and restoring it, but isn't working. Any advice of what should i do??
 
what exactly is not working?
the container isn't starting, this is the output when i try to create the new container

Formatting '/mnt/pve/FreeNas/images/103/vm-103-disk-0.raw', fmt=raw size=8589934592
mke2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
Creating filesystem with 2097152 4k blocks and 524288 inodes
Filesystem UUID: a37799ef-4e1b-4547-8482-0ba258e3ad9a
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Allocating group tables: 0/64 done
Writing inode tables: 0/64 done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Multiple mount protection is enabled with update interval 5 seconds.
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 0/64 done

extracting archive '/var/lib/vz/template/cache/prueba_ale.tar.gz'

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child died with signal 13
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
TASK ERROR: command 'tar xpf - -z --totals --one-file-system -p --sparse --numeric-owner --acls --xattrs '--xattrs-include=user.*' '--xattrs-include=security.capability' '--warning=no-file-ignored' '--warning=no-xattr-write' -C /var/lib/lxc/103/rootfs --skip-old-files --anchored --exclude './dev/*'' failed: exit code 2
 
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Looks like your tar.gz is corrupt, did you check that the backup was created without errors and that it is a gzip compressed archive? What's the output of `file your_backup.tar.gz`?
 
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Looks like your tar.gz is corrupt, did you check that the backup was created without errors and that it is a gzip compressed archive? What's the output of `file your_backup.tar.gz`?
No i didn't recieve any errors during the backup. I've already tried it in two ways. First with a backup on the old server and the second was making the tar.gz file by myself.

Note: Sorry the output i previously post was from the second way.

In the firs one when y restored the backup everything went fine, but when i tried to start the container it gave this error

Job for pve-container@101.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status pve-container@101.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
TASK ERROR: command 'systemctl start pve-container@101' failed: exit code 1

and when i check with systemctl status pve-container@101.service this is what it gave me

pve-container@101.service - PVE LXC Container: 101
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pve-container@.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-02-01 12:41:36 CST; 3min 3s ago
Docs: man:lxc-start
man:lxc
man: pct
Process: 28892 ExecStart=/usr/bin/lxc-start -n 101 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Feb 01 12:41:34 pmox1 systemd[1]: Starting PVE LXC Container: 101...
Feb 01 12:41:36 pmox1 systemd[1]: pve-container@101.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Feb 01 12:41:36 pmox1 systemd[1]: pve-container@101.service: Killing process 28896 (lxc-start) with signal SIGKILL.
Feb 01 12:41:36 pmox1 systemd[1]: pve-container@101.service: Killing process 28984 (apparmor_parser) with signal SIGKILL.
Feb 01 12:41:36 pmox1 systemd[1]: Failed to start PVE LXC Container: 101.
Feb 01 12:41:36 pmox1 systemd[1]: pve-container@101.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 01 12:41:36 pmox1 systemd[1]: pve-container@101.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
 
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You can try to run
Code:
lxc-start -nCTID -lDEBUG -o/dev/stdout
to debug. CTID is the ID of the container you want to start
 
You can try to run
Code:
lxc-start -nCTID -lDEBUG -o/dev/stdout
to debug. CTID is the ID of the container you want to start
So it seems like the problem is with the containers network

lxc-start 101 20190204142109.754 ERROR conf - conf.c:run_buffer:353 - Script exited with status 2
lxc-start 101 20190204142109.321 ERROR network - network.c:lxc_create_network_priv:2446 - Failed to create network device
lxc-start 101 20190204142109.321 ERROR start - start.c:lxc_spawn:1616 - Failed to create the network
lxc-start 101 20190204142109.322 ERROR start - start.c:__lxc_start:1948 - Failed to spawn container "101"
lxc-start 101 20190204142109.323 DEBUG lxccontainer - lxccontainer.c:wait_on_daemonized_start:828 - First child 5872 exited
lxc-start 101 20190204142109.323 ERROR lxccontainer - lxccontainer.c:wait_on_daemonized_start:840 - Received container state "STOPPING" instead of "RUNNING"
lxc-start: 101: lxccontainer.c: wait_on_daemonized_start: 840 Received container state "STOPPING" instead of "RUNNING"
lxc-start 101 20190204142109.324 ERROR lxc_start - tools/lxc_start.c:main:330 - The container failed to start
lxc-start: 101: tools/lxc_start.c: main: 330 The container failed to start
lxc-start 101 20190204142109.324 ERROR lxc_start - tools/lxc_start.c:main:333 - To get more details, run the container in foreground mode
lxc-start: 101: tools/lxc_start.c: main: 333 To get more details, run the container in foreground mode
lxc-start 101 20190204142109.324 ERROR lxc_start - tools/lxc_start.c:main:336 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options
 

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