Recovery: OS Drive Died and Now I'm Trying to Recover My VMs

[dasborgnearly]

Hi all,

My operating system drive died, and I made the mistake of not having it in a RAID 1 with another drive, so I lost all data there. However, my two data drives are still accessible and I can see the location on the filesystem where the vms are located. However, I have no idea where to start putting this all back together. Can anyone help?

 

[alexskysilk]

However, my two data drives are still accessible and I can see the location on the filesystem

if you can see the location on the filesystem, you can use this to create matching fstab /etc/pve/storage.cfg entries in your new pve installation. You will need to create the configuration files for your resources manually, however- effectively go through the motions of creating your vms as if from scratch using the same vmid as original (your imported filesystem filesystem structure will guide you on what they are) but dont create disks. once the vm is created, you will see the imported disk(s) for a given vmid available to attach to the vm and set it to boot.

 

[Kingneutron]

https://github.com/kneutron/ansitest/blob/master/proxmox/proxmox-recover-vm-disks-without-backup.sh

I strongly recommend you setup PBS on separate hardware after you get things sorted.