Restore button doesn't work in my Proxmox 2.1 installation

Bernardo

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May 22, 2012
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I recently installed Proxmox 2.1 on a new machine. It is not part of a cluster. Everything had been working fine. To get started, I restored a KVM machine from backup and it worked fine. However, now I want to restore some more VMs that I previously backed up. When I go to the storage (which is NFS, and the same place which I successfully restored the first VM from) and click the Restore button, nothing happens. It doesn't matter if I am trying to restore a container or a KVM virtual machine. Either way, nothing happens when I click the Restore button.

I have restarted the Proxmox 2.1 machine, but the problem is still there.

This is a stock Proxmox 2.1 installation from ISO.

Any suggestions?
 
you need to have the backup files in the right directory (structure changed).

then you will see the backup files - select one and then you can restore. maybe you add a screenshot if you cannot figure it out.
 
you need to have the backup files in the right directory (structure changed).

then you will see the backup files - select one and then you can restore. maybe you add a screenshot if you cannot figure it out.

Thanks for your reply.

I actually can see the backups, but when I choose one and click Restore, nothing happens. By "structure changed", I assume you mean that they now must be in the dump sub-directory, which I already figured out. But the backups are there and the Restore button still doesn't do anything. When I select the backup file, the Restore button changes from "greyed-out" to normal, but still nothing happens when I click on it.

I've tried the latest versions of both Chrome and Firefox, so I don't think the issue is with the browser itself.

Thanks,

Eldon
 
OK.. I think I found the problem - perhaps it is me. :)

I had renamed the backups I was trying to use in order to give them a more descriptive names. I had not changed the extensions, only the names. Once I renamed the backup to the old 1.x format (vzdump-qemu-112-2012_05_27-04_00_03) using an arbitrary date and time since I didn't know the original date and time, the restore works. Is this the way it is supposed to work? I thought I had restored from custom-named backups in the past, but perhaps my memory is failing me.

In any case... thanks a bunch for the help. I'm back in business now.
 

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