[SOLVED] Backup Restore Fails on New Machine

[Clericer]

Hey everyone, I’m running a Proxmox 8.3.4 server with both LXC containers and VMs.
I also have a second system where I want to restore these backups as new VMs to create a duplicate of the original setup.

However, most of the backup restores fail with the following message:

restore vma archive: zstd -q -d -c /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2025_03_15-11_56_11.vma.zst | vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp4996.fifo - /var/tmp/vzdumptmp4996
CFG: size: 474 name: qemu-server.conf
DEV: dev_id=1 size: 34359738368 devname: drive-scsi0
CTIME: Sat Mar 15 11:56:14 2025
error before or during data restore, some or all disks were not completely restored. VM 100 state is NOT cleaned up.
TASK ERROR: command 'set -o pipefail && zstd -q -d -c /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-100-2025_03_15-11_56_11.vma.zst | vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp4996.fifo - /var/tmp/vzdumptmp4996' failed: Content type 'images' is not available on storage 'local'

On the first attempt, the new system was running Proxmox version 8.3.0 when this error occurred. After that, I updated it to version 8.3.5, but the issue remains.
Protection mode is disabled on all VMs and LXCs.
The backups were created using the "stop" mode instead of "snapshot" mode.
Also, all machines were properly shut down (not just stopped) before creating the backups.
No matter what I try, I was only able to successfully restore 1 out of 6 backups — all others fail with the same error mentioned above.

Every constructive and well-considered idea is welcome.

 

[UdoB]

Content type 'images' is not available on storage 'local'

You need to allow this type in your storage definition.

Datacenter --> Storage --> "local" --> Button "Edit" --> Drop-down menu "Content" - note that this is a multi-select box...

 

[Clericer]

OH MAN, to stupid to read. Thank you so much. I realy have to read between the lines.


Thank you so much for this quick help.