Proxmox and Synology/BTRFS vm disk dissapeared

vsidou

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Hi,

after looking for a while on the matter i'm looking for help on this forum please.
Bear with me on explaning the matter, and hopefully maybe i could get some solution on this.

I have proxmox installed , 3 nodes. Ceph pool where all VM disks are stored and backed up.
Except it seems for one of the VM (103) which has gotten itself it disk stored on a shared on a Synology nas with a BTRFS filesystem (stored by mistake it seems)
The config for the disk is like that :

scsi0: Synology:103/vm-103-disk-0.qcow2,size=32G

As the backup only occurs on the ceph pool, this vm was unfortunatelly not backed up.

The node on which was running VM103 shut down on itself (i'm still investigating the reason).
After powering up again, all vm rebooted except this one which has it disk on the Synology/BTRFS.

I've checked then the Synology share for the disk, and it seems to have dissapeared completely.
I can see other vm folders with their qcow2 that were created as tests on the folder. But not this one.

I've tried all the btrfs undelete tools which were a dead end.
The recycled folder was activated, i can still see old files but nothing related to this VM.

I know it's more a storage issue. But my question related to Proxmox is, can for some obscur reasons a disk and it's parent folder be removed on the storage by Proxmox or by other tasks ?
Are there any way (log checking, or similars) to see what could have happened please ?

Thanks for your patience.
 
I know it's more a storage issue. But my question related to Proxmox is, can for some obscur reasons a disk and it's parent folder be removed on the storage by Proxmox or by other tasks ?
Not really. If a "Move Disk" operation happened, the config of the VM should show the disk image to be placed somewhere else, and you should see the task in the "Task History" of the VM.

As what kind of storage is the "Synology" configured on your PVE nodes? A NFS or CIFS share?
 
Hi,

well currenty the VM disk config show the same location but states it cannot find the disk.
The synology share is a NFS share which point to a BTRFS on a Synology Nas.

Regards