Restore Backup from external drive

[Masstec]

I had to reinstall my Proxmox and was able to get a back up on an external drive before doing so. My question is how to go around the qmrestore command to have it restore the back up to my Raid 1 SSD. I have mounted the external drive on /mnt/storage. Is this line correct?

qmrestore /mnt/storage/vzdump-qemu-100.vma 100

Would that create the VM again on the SSD or on the external drive?

I guess I need to the VM to be created back on pve, either local(pve) or local-zfs(pve) but I don't know if qmrestore /mnt/storage/vzdump-qemu-100.vma 100 --storage local-zfs is the way to go.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Kingneutron]

Define the external drive in Datacenter / Storage, then click on it under Storage / Backups in the left pane, restore the backup with web GUI

 

[milew]

Where virtual machine images are stored is defined by the configuration in the /etc/pve/storage.cfg file
and you probably have local-zfs content images,rootdir there.

Your command looks correct to me.

 

[Masstec]

Thanks for your answers.

I did try defining the drive in the Datacenter > Storage but the files did not show on the web GUI, so I had to do it directly on the terminal.
I used the first command I posted qmrestore /mnt/storage/vzdump-qemu-100.vma 100 and it's about to finish, we'll see how that goes.

 

[notKakarot]

Hey Masstec, what happened after this command? Did you have to attach the disk before running this command?