Issues after crash/restoring vm's and ct from backup (not visible in server-view, but they are running)

[sjoerd]

Hi guys,

I noticed the disk (ssd) pve was running on started to fail (every day some extra reallocated blocks) so I ordered a new ssd. I Also make weekly full backups of the 2 vm's and the container it is hosting to a remote server. All good right ? - The new disk arrived last evening. Since the ssd isn't that large (120G) I decided to image the entire disk and restore it to the new ssd - zero effort, minimum downtime.

But during imaging the ssd it crashed. Trying to boot, in an attempt to save the pve configuration (which i did not do) the ssd completely failed and was not even recognized by the server. So no image, no zero effort and a lot of downtime.... had to use my phone to connect to the internet to get pve ise and balena etcher to create a proxmox installer. All good so far..

After the installation I configured the nics to be bridge and restored my opnsense backup - from 2 days ago - lucky me. So I got my router back (ye proxmox is running on a route appliance having 4 nics) - family happing.

Next is to restore the pi-hole container.. Also a backup from 2 days ago. I selected the backup and proxmox starts restoring it. I checked "Start after:" I expected the see the container up "pve" but nothing - right, maybe refresh the browers - NOPE - weird. The task output does not report any errors so I opened a new tab on my brower and typed the address of the pi-hole container.. Ye, it's running - WEIRD.. Oh well figure that out later

Next is to restore my HASSIO zigbee2mqtt vm - restoring that also ended with no issues but the vm does again not show up under "pve" - and it is running since I browse to it, but I cannot do anything else since it does not show up... Lets figure that out later.

Then I wanted to add the disk my snapshot backups are on pve and quess what - does not show up.. .bloody hell - what is going on here. Lets mount the partition manually: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pve/backup_local. No problem there either - the old snapshots are even there..

I checked the syslog but I cannot find anything that would suggest any issues..

At this point I'm absolutely clueless what's going on or where to start "debugging" the installation.

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If I need to check/send logfiles I'm happy to do so

Regards
Sjoerd

 

[sjoerd]

Oke,

It's getting bit more weird - esp because I do not know why.

As my 2 vm's and one container are running (although I could - yes could - only see my opnsense vm) I decided to schedule the backups again. Every day of the week, a snapshot to the local disk that was already in (1TB 2,5" platter) and every week a full backup to my remote server.

As I selected Datacenter, for creating the backup-plan, I started with the remote (because that was visible in the dropdown), but when I clicked it the backup_local was also visible (where it is not under "pve") - Also - Not only the opnsense vm was visible for selecting - also the other vm (hassio) and the container (pihole) - Oke ???. After creating the plan for the weekly, I continued with the daily to the local disk...

And when I finished doing that guess what..... backup_local and the missing vm and container suddenly appeared under "pve"

I guess my problem is "solved" but I'm not satisfied. I do not like when things are not visible when other sections say "ye dude, it's fine - I'm running" and when you start doing some configuration the system says "oh hey wait - you are missing something, let me show you what". I even tried to add "backup_local" twice because it did not show up and there was not confirmation whatsoever - ye, the second time I added it I got a warning "hey dude - I already got backup_local, but I'm not going to show it to you"

Can please someone tell me what the h** is going on...