NUC died but SSD is alive

[Whitey13]

Apologies up front as I only used proxmox to run my house automation software so no doubt will get terminology wrong.

Had proxmox on a nuc with the only thing it was running being home assistant (I believe this is called a node)

The NUC died (no big issue as I have home assistant backups). I reinstall home assistant on my PC via a VM while I wait for another NUC to arrive and go to retrieve my back but find they only go back to July due to another issue.

Restore the July backup but obviously it's 6 months old. I plug the SSD from the dead NUC into my widows PC and mount the drive and partitions in the hopes I can retrieve an image file or access the files within the node I had. No idea what I'm looking for or if it's even possible.

I've tried booting the SSD in another machine but it hangs (I assume it's because of the change in hardware and network etc)

So my question is can I pull the node image off the SSD and mount it on my windows PC just so I can retrieve a locally saved backup file from the system?

Or transfer the node to another proxmox install so I can access the file I need?

Or is there a better way to achieve what I need.

Cheers

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

if the SSD is ok you should be able to just plug it into any Linux machine and access the data directly. Even booting it should work fine. However, Windows uses a proprietary filesystem called NTFS, and is not able to read other filesystems, therefore you should not use Windows to try to get data off your SSD, Windows could actually mess your data up rather than restore it.
When your new NUC arrives, just plugging the SSD in should work without problems.

 

[Whitey13]

Hey,

if the SSD is ok you should be able to just plug it into any Linux machine and access the data directly. Even booting it should work fine. However, Windows uses a proprietary filesystem called NTFS, and is not able to read other filesystems, therefore you should not use Windows to try to get data off your SSD, Windows could actually mess your data up rather than restore it.
When your new NUC arrives, just plugging the SSD in should work without problems.

I used a ext4 file program to be able to read the drive in Windows so was able to safely access the drive and files but could not see any that relate to what I was after.

I managed to get the drive to boot on my main PC but can not get access to it via the network (cant ping it and it doesn't show on my network (unifi) but it does have a static IP so it is giving me a correct address to use)

Any idea how to fix this?

I also ran a back up via command line in the hopes of dragging the back up file off and doing a restore via my VM but it's a 70gig image and the backup fails at 52% due to insufficient room.

The data isn't 70gig so I could resize it but have been trying to back it up to another larger drive (without much success at the moment)

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Is your main PC in the same subnet as your NUC was?
Do you have access to the internet when you're booted from the SSD?
How did you make the backup?

 

[Whitey13]

Is your main PC in the same subnet as your NUC was?
Do you have access to the internet when you're booted from the SSD?
How did you make the backup?

Main PC is same subnet.

Been trying to make a backup via command with vzdump but having issues as mentioned above.

Now trying to change the Mac address but getting a write error so the changes are not saving

 

[Whitey13]

Is your main PC in the same subnet as your NUC was?
Do you have access to the internet when you're booted from the SSD?
How did you make the backup?

No net access either. Cant ping anything.