Migrating the system/boot disk in PBS

[andersostling56]

I have a boot/system disk in my PBS system that shows some SMART errors. I am a bit concerned and want to replace that disk with another fresh one. All data is on a second disk, a ZFS volume. The system disk in formatted as EXT4.
Now I installed a new PBS on a secondary server using the same IP/hostname as the first one (still offline though). Is there a way to migrate over the configuration from the old PBS to the new one once I have booted up the new? As I wrote, all backups are still on the ZFS volume and *should* be recognized automatically. Would it be enough to create a new datastore and point to the ZFS volume? I also understand that there will be a new fingerprint to paste into the PVS host. Anything else that I could to to ease the migration?

/Anders

 

[Chris]

Is there a way to migrate over the configuration from the old PBS to the new one once I have booted up the new?

With a few adaptions, you will be able to recreate the config on the new PBS instance by taking the old config you will find under /etc/proxmox-backup/.

Would it be enough to create a new datastore and point to the ZFS volume?

If the zfs dataset is mounted on the same backing path as the original one, the datastore will be recognized (given you used the same /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg). Otherwise you will have to adapt the path config parameter for the datastore accordingly.