Lost a Boot drive, Raid 1, Rebuild corrupted remaining good drive

300cpilot

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So as you read I am kinda screwed. What I would like to know is if I reinstall on the new boot drives will it be able to read the data on the existing ZFS drives. Consisting of 12 drives and 2 SSD's? Boot drives are Raid1 on an HP raid controller. Storage are on a separate controller.

I can still read from the boot drives if I use a linux boot drive. Is there a config that I can grab?
 
Should be no problem to import the ZFS pool. But in case you stored your VMs on that ZFS pool you still need the VM/LXC config files from your boot drive. But its hard to get them because when the PVE services aren't running your /etc/pve folder, that stores all the PVE configs, will be empty. that because /etc/pve is just a mountpoint of a special filesystem that is stored on a SQLite DB. See here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_Cluster_File_System_(pmxcfs)
I guess you didn't got a recent backup of your /etc/pve folder?
Without getting the PMXCFS to work there aren't much config files you can rescue. Maybe the /etc/network/interfaces, /etc/hosts, /etc/vzdump.conf and /etc/resolv.conf.
 
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Live and learn. Can I automate backing up the /etc/pve folder? No backup exists currently of the root filesystem, just the CT's. Nothing critical was lost except my time. But next time I wish to be better prepared.
 
Live and learn. Can I automate backing up the /etc/pve folder? No backup exists currently of the root filesystem, just the CT's. Nothing critical was lost except my time. But next time I wish to be better prepared.
Sure, but not using the GUI. You could create a cron entry to simple tar the "/etc" contents and move it somewhere. Or I personally use cron to backup my most important system disk folders using to the proxmox-backup-client to my Proxmox Backup Server (PBS).
 
Ok, I was thinking I had missed something in the gui. Looking into an rsync solution now.
Thanks again for your help.
 

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