Reinstalled proxmox but "pve-old" created and I cannot recover existing VMs

[sn29384]

Hi everyone,

I recently tried to get into my Proxmox Server but had too many problems booting so I decided to reinstall Proxmox on a new NVME that I added to my motherboard along with my already existing NVME SSD that already contained my existing Proxmox server. Upon installing on the new SSD, it found an existing installation (My last one) and renamed it to "pve-old". Running lvs shows the pve-old and pve volumes. Proxmox is running now but I don't know how to recover the 13 VMs that I was running on my other ssd. I can see the SSD is visible in the node and it also indicates that it has 13 VMs but I don't know how to get the VMs to appear in the new Node.

What can I do to make my other disk and VMs appear in my new Node? I really need these and will lost a lot of information if i don't recover them. Let me know what information you need me to provide.

Thanks in advance everyone.

 

[oguz]

hi,

I can see the SSD is visible in the node and it also indicates that it has 13 VMs but I don't know how to get the VMs to appear in the new Node.

for them to show up in the GUI you'd have to copy or recreate the VM configuration files located in /etc/pve/qemu-server/VMID.conf

also for your disk to be seen as a storage you can edit /etc/pve/storage.cfg

 

[sn29384]

Do you know how to retrieve the old config files?

 

[oguz]

you should hopefully have a backup of them.

otherwise you can check if you have a /var/lib/pve-cluster/config.db file in your old drive, which would have the backing filesystem for /etc/pve.