Import PBS Files From Windows

fakebizprez

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Hello, recently I migrated all the data on my PBS server to my Windows 11 Pro workstation, and repurposed the PBS equipment for something else.

I have created a new PBS server, transferred the data from Windows to PBS via SCP to the Datastore, but none of the files show appear. It's not the end of the world if I lose these VMs, but it sure would be nice to be able to recover them.

Is it possible to recover these VMs?
 
Hi,

sounds like you just need to re-create the datastore, as just copying the chunks does not provide the system with the information, that a datastore is available somewhere.

You can do that by editing /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg and adding
Code:
datastore: name
        path /path/to/datastore

Hope this helps!
 
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Hi,

sounds like you just need to re-create the datastore, as just copying the chunks does not provide the system with the information, that a datastore is available somewhere.

You can do that by editing /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg and adding
Code:
datastore: name
        path /path/to/datastore

Hope this helps!
Thanks for the quick response!

I went into my 'datastore.cfg' file and this is what I had in there:

Code:
atastore: nvme-backup
        path /mnt/datastore/nvme-backup

I'm wondering if some of the syntax is slightly off..

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