Posting this as this comes first on Google and it's linked from the Wiki: You don't need to reboot the HOST. Just stop (don't restart) the VM, then start it and the redirection should be applied.
It didn't work.. I tried sereval softwares, testdisk, photorec, loaded the damaged image on another windows VM and ran a bunch of softwares but they managed to recover only ~8gb..
This is the log that Proxmox generated before my VM got screwed..:
Sep 04 00:38:25 INFO: Starting Backup of VM...
Oh my God thank you for giving me some hope man! I was already hopeless, tried testdisk but it didn't work, Im trying photorec now but it takes longer so while photorec tries to find anything I will try what you suggested me right now and see how it goes!!!
Ok, this is a .qcow2 Windows 2012 VM with VirtIO drivers. I have a very important database running in it, if I could only recover that DB it would be great.
The VM was running fine but then I decided to transfer it to another node. This other node is not Proxmox based so I couldn't use the new...
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