Import PBS Files From Windows

[fakebizprez]

Hello, recently I migrated all the data on my PBS server to my Windows 11 Pro workstation, and repurposed the PBS equipment for something else.

I have created a new PBS server, transferred the data from Windows to PBS via SCP to the Datastore, but none of the files show appear. It's not the end of the world if I lose these VMs, but it sure would be nice to be able to recover them.

Is it possible to recover these VMs?

 

[cheiss]

Hi,

sounds like you just need to re-create the datastore, as just copying the chunks does not provide the system with the information, that a datastore is available somewhere.

You can do that by editing /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg and adding

datastore: name
        path /path/to/datastore

Hope this helps!

 

[fakebizprez]

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Hi,

sounds like you just need to re-create the datastore, as just copying the chunks does not provide the system with the information, that a datastore is available somewhere.

You can do that by editing /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg and adding

datastore: name
        path /path/to/datastore

Hope this helps!

Thanks for the quick response!

I went into my 'datastore.cfg' file and this is what I had in there:

atastore: nvme-backup
        path /mnt/datastore/nvme-backup

I'm wondering if some of the syntax is slightly off..

 

[cheiss]

What does ls -lah /mnt/datastore/nvme-backup print? There should be at least a .chunks folder there.

atastore: nvme-backup

Also, I guess this is just a typo with atastore[/code]? As the datastore does show up, at least.

 

[fakebizprez]

What does ls -lah /mnt/datastore/nvme-backup print? There should be at least a .chunks folder there.


Also, I guess this is just a typo with atastore[/code]? As the datastore does show up, at least.

Hi Cheiss, thanks for the help; I was able to solve the problem this morning.

Long story short, before I transferred the files using the WinSCP GUI, I compressed them into a Tarball - which would have been fine, but I compressed them into a

.7z.tar

vs.

 .tgz

. According to the logs, when the files were extracted in PBS, they were corrupted.

I figured this out after I ran a manual Garbage Collection and the server crashed along with my browser, lol. The lesson? Stay off Windows.