recover/copy VM/LXC by installing PVE on second disk?

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daemonix

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My main NVME (ZFS) has messed up boot and I can't seem to find a way to fix it.
I installed a second PVE from scratch on an other NVME and Im trying to rescue/copy the VMs/LXCs from the first drive.

I can mount the "rpool" and "zfsdata" with "zpool import -R /mnt/firstrpool -f rpool" but "/mnt/firstrpool/etc/pve" is empty and the "zfsdata" is mounted a one 'volume' per vm/lxc due to being ZFS (This is my first PVE build with ZFS as boot.... and here are the results heheh).

What is the best way to rescue my files/VMs? Im probably doing something wrong here :)
 
/etc/pve is empty because that is a FUSE filesystem under normal circumstances, exposing the contents of the Proxmox database as filesystem.

You can find the config database in /var/lib/pve-cluster. It's an SQLite DB which should be readable with the usual command line tools.
 
gurubert said:
/etc/pve is empty because that is a FUSE filesystem under normal circumstances, exposing the contents of the Proxmox database as filesystem.

You can find the config database in /var/lib/pve-cluster. It's an SQLite DB which should be readable with the usual command line tools.
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Usual tools you mean for sqlite??

Any idea how to rescue the VMs and LXCs?

Thanks
 
gurubert said:
The image files for the vHDDs are in the storage referenced in the configuration which would be somewhere in your "firstrpool" I assume.
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Is this true for ZFS filesystems? (probably inside the ZFS-DATA partition)
Thanks
 
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