can't restore old style archive to storage

[jasond]

I'm trying to restore a backup created with vzdump (on proxmox 1.3) to a 1.4b2 machine. The destination storage named 'onetb' is DRBD-backed LVM.

When I try to run the command:

qmrestore --storage onetb vzdump-2666.tgz 3333

I receive the error:

INFO: restore QemuServer backup 'vzdump-2666.tgz' using ID 3333
INFO: extracting 'qemu-server.conf' from archive
INFO: extracting 'vm-2118-disk.qcow2' from archive
INFO: restoring old style vzdump archive - no device map inside archive
INFO: can't restore old style archive to storage 'onetb'

Questions:
What is the alternative to "old style archive" and how do I get vzdump to create the backups in this form.
How do I convert from one form to the other.

 

[dietmar]

Old archives can onyl be restored to filesystem based storage (for example 'local').

 

[dietmar]

Questions:
What is the alternative to "old style archive" and how do I get vzdump to create the backups in this form.

previous vzdump versions (<= 1.1) creates "old style archive"

How do I convert from one form to the other.

That is not possible. But you can restore old archives too - only restriction is that the final storage is filesystem based.

 

[jasond]

That is not possible. But you can restore old archives too - only restriction is that the final storage is filesystem based.

How do I migrate a vm to shared storage so that I can test shared storage?

 

[jasond]

Update: I restored the vzdump to local storage on the 1.4b2 cluster. Then I created a backup of that virtual machine using the newer version of vzdump (via the gui). When I then try to restore this newly created backup to shared storage I get another error:

qmrestore --storage onetb vzdump-qemu-3333.tgz 3334
INFO: restore QemuServer backup 'vzdump-qemu-3333.tgz' using ID 3334
INFO: extracting 'qemu-server.conf' from archive
INFO: extracting 'vm-disk-virtio0.qcow2' from archive
INFO: unable to restore 'vm-disk-virtio0.qcow2' to storage 'onetb'
INFO: storage type 'lvm' does not support format 'qcow2
INFO: tar: vm-disk-virtio0.qcow2: Cannot seek to 105984: Broken pipe
INFO: tar: 5137: Child returned status 255
INFO: tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
INFO: starting cleanup
ERROR: restore QemuServer backup 'vzdump-qemu-3333.tgz' failed - command 'tar xf 'vzdump-qemu-3333.tgz' '--to-command=/usr/sbin/qmrestore --storage onetb vzdump-qemu-3333.tgz 3334 --extract'' failed with exit code 2

How do I convert "vm-disk-virtio0.qcow2" to a format that lvm does support?

 

[dietmar]

use qemu-image to convert the image to raw format (before you do the backup - edit the config file manually)