[SOLVED] How do I get past this storage error when trying to restore a container from a Datacenter-level backup?

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Hi, new here.

I'm trying to practice restoring a container from a backup.

I have a storage set up for backups at Datacenter level, meaning the "Backups" view for my containers in the GUI are blank, but the Datacenter "Backups" view has one schedule for backing up everything using ZSTD.

I got into the root shell and tried to create container 101 using a backup of 100. I'm going off the examples in the Wiki. The path is for the image as I saw it in the backup storage.

Code:
pct restore 101 /mnt/pve/nas/dump/vzdump-lxc-100-2021_01_06-00_00_02.tar.zst

400 Parameter verification failed.
storage: storage 'local' does not support container directories
pct restore <vmid> <ostemplate> [OPTIONS]

I assumed that the restore utility is configured to restore the container in the wrong place, but I never touched /etc/vzdump.conf. Is there something else I could have done to prevent the restore utility from working as expected?
 

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