Removed node now some vms are in unknown state

[mgiammarco]

Hello,
I have removed a proxmox node.
By mistake I forgot to migrate some VMs.
The disks for these machines are on ceph, so I have only lost their .conf.
I have backups so I try to write a xxx.conf (recovered with vma config) in /etc/pve/qemu-server of another node.
Unfortunately even if /etc/pve/qemu-server is writable I cannot write the file xxx.conf if the xxx VM is "existing in gui with unknown state"
Can you help me?
Thanks,
Mario

 

[tom]

The disks for these machines are on ceph, so I have only lost their .conf.

the config is not lost, you should see the file in /etc/pve/nodes/yourremovednode/...

=> just move (mv) the file to one of the remaining nodes directory and you are done.

 

[mgiammarco]

Great trick! Very easy! No need to recover from backup! Thanks!

 

[tom]

Great trick! Very easy! No need to recover from backup! Thanks!

Great that you fixed it. pmxcfs is one of best features of Proxmox VE.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_Cluster_File_System_(pmxcfs)