Failed: got timeout when trying to restore a backup.

[justinhnguyen]

I'm trying to restore a backup file pulled from one Virtual Environment 6.3-2 node to another Virtual Environment 5.1-41.

I transferred the backup which is a vma.zst file from the VE6.3-2 environment to the VE5.1-41 environment.

The file is located in /var/lib/vz/dump/

When running qmrestore I get a "failed: got timeout error". I also noticed in the GUI under local (pve) my VZDump backup files only show the .vma.lzo files and not the vma.zst file from the other node running 6.3-2. I'm thinking its possibly due to the version I'm running is the reason why they're not showing up. Any help would be appreciated.

root@pve:~# cd /var/lib/vz/dump/
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/dump# ls
vzdump-qemu-100-2018_07_15-15_27_56.log      vzdump-qemu-101-2018_07_15-14_04_10.vma.lzo  vzdump-qemu-110-2021_01_20-17_28_37.log      vzdump-qemu-114-2021_10_11-09_11_00.log
vzdump-qemu-100-2018_07_15-15_27_56.vma.lzo  vzdump-qemu-101-2021_01_20-17_22_47.vma.zst  vzdump-qemu-110-2021_01_20-17_28_37.vma.lzo  vzdump-qemu-114-2021_10_11-09_11_00.vma.lzo
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/dump#
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/dump#
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/dump#
root@pve:/var/lib/vz/dump# qmrestore vzdump-qemu-101-2021_01_20-17_22_47.vma.zst 105
restore vma archive: vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp47661.fifo /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-101-2021_01_20-17_22_47.vma.zst /var/tmp/vzdumptmp47661
command 'vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp47661.fifo /var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-101-2021_01_20-17_22_47.vma.zst /var/tmp/vzdumptmp47661' failed: got timeout

 

[fiona]

Hi,
zstd backups were not supported in Proxmox VE 5.x, so you can't restore it there directly. You need to extract the pure .vma file with zstd first, and then use qmrestore.

But also, I'd highly recommend to upgrade. These versions are end-of-life since years ago and didn't receive any security updates since then!
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_5.x_to_6.0
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0