[SOLVED] Recover running machines config after joining cluster

[Ilanh]

Hi

In Proxmox 4, I added a node with 'pvecm add -force' to an existing cluster.
There were 2 QEMU VMs running on the added node.
Currently the VMs are running but are not present in PVE Manager.

The config files are gone but I have a backup of the VMs, I don't want to restore VMs because they are running and data is being updated to existing disk images.
BTW running VMs have same ID as existing VMs in cluster.

Questions:
Is there a known procedure to recover configuration files without backup after joining a cluster?
Should I restore the VMs, shutdown KVM instances, and replace disk images for restored config?
Is it possible to extract just the conf file from the vma.lzo files?

Thanks in advance

 

[dcsapak]

there is:

pvesm extractconfig <volume>

where volume is your backup

 

[Ilanh]

pvesm extractconfig was not helpfull:
ERROR: unknown command 'extractconfig'

but after:
lzop -x ../dump/vzdump-qemu-120-2016_11_28-02_46_47.vma.lzo
vma extract vzdump-qemu-120-2016_11_28-02_46_47.vma outdir

Now I have the:
qemu-server.conf

do I just copy the file to /etc/pve/nodes/pm04/qemu-server/ as a new-id.conf and it will appear in PVE Manager?

 

[Ilanh]

for whom it may concern,

It did work,
since I had VM id 103
qemu-server.conf was copied to /etc/pve/nodes/pm04/qemu-server/1031.conf
to be sure I also renamed
/var/lib/vz/images/103 to /var/lib/vz/images/1031
/var/lib/vz/images/1031/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2 to /var/lib/vz/images/1031/vm-1031-disk-1.qcow2
and updated in /etc/pve/nodes/pm04/qemu-server/1031.conf respectfully.

a refresh of PVE Manager page was required and the VM appeared.

All this was done on a powered off VM for proof of concept, I'll shut down the production VMs tonight and do the same

Thanks, you have a wonderful product.