/etc/pve got wiped; all configs lost

ArtemZ

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May 23, 2012
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Hello,
I'm using proxmox 3 (pve-manager/3.1-21/93bf03d4 (running kernel: 2.6.32-20-pve)) and performed apt-get dist-upgrade in order to update things. It resulted in loss of configuration data from /etc/pve, this folder has been simply wiped. What can I do now to restore it?

Thanks
 
Hello,
I'm using proxmox 3 (pve-manager/3.1-21/93bf03d4 (running kernel: 2.6.32-20-pve)) and performed apt-get dist-upgrade in order to update things. It resulted in loss of configuration data from /etc/pve, this folder has been simply wiped. What can I do now to restore it?

Thanks

Hi /etc/pve is mounted by pve-cluster service.
Can you try /etc/init.d/pve-cluster restart ?

real datas are in a sqlite database located here:
/var/lib/pve-cluster/config.db

and a backup-dump is available here:
/var/lib/pve-cluster/backup
 
I already specified the output of pveversion. It's pve-manager/3.1-21/93bf03d4 (running kernel: 2.6.32-20-pve)
 
The problem has been solved. It seems like a hostname related error during update of pve-cluster caused this to happen. After I fixed server's hostname and re-run apt-get dist-upgrade command content in folder /etc/pve has been auto restored.