Reinstall on new disk and restore ZFS Pool

[spartan195]

Greetings,

I have a ZFS pool of 4 HDD drives on my proxmox installation, the main proxmox OS is installed on a separated small ssd.

All my VM are still working, but I had to login today to modify the space of one of my lxc, but the GUI was not working.

I checked through the ssh shell and I've seen lot of errors on the proxy daemon, all of them are ReadOnly filesystem, well I guess my ssd is dead.

I cannot login into the GUI or modify any file or create a new backup. I'll buy a new ssd and reinstall Proxmox there. But my question is, even if all my data is on the ZFS pool, will I be able to restore this data al re-mount all my vms?

All my vms and backups are placed on the 4 HDD ZFS pool, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to re-mount this ZFS into the new proxmox installation.

Can someone confirm this? or if there's a method for that? Thanks a lot!

 

[oguz]

hi,

I cannot login into the GUI or modify any file or create a new backup. I'll buy a new ssd and reinstall Proxmox there. But my question is, even if all my data is on the ZFS pool, will I be able to restore this data al re-mount all my vms?

you should be able to mount the existing pool on your new installation. make sure you have a backup of your storage config /etc/pve/storage.cfg and other necessary configs for your VMs or containers (/etc/pve/qemu-server and /etc/pve/lxc). it makes sense to restore most of /etc directory as well (you should be hopefully able to read those from the read-only ssd)

 

[spartan195]

hi,


you should be able to mount the existing pool on your new installation. make sure you have a backup of your storage config /etc/pve/storage.cfg and other necessary configs for your VMs or containers (/etc/pve/qemu-server and /etc/pve/lxc). it makes sense to restore most of /etc directory as well (you should be hopefully able to read those from the read-only ssd)

Okay I'll try to backup all possible files from /etc and mount the ZFS.

Thanks a lot Oguz!