This is my first post here and I apologise if this has already been covered but I couldn't find anything on the forum which has the information I need.
The situation is that I have PVE v7 with an Xpenology VM of around 4.2TB. My intention was to reorganise the disks in the server, so I got a 4TB hard drive and made a PBS using an old computer (PBS v2.2). I then backed up the VM over the network (took about 2 days to copy it over, but it worked fine, I got the 'OK' message anyway). The compression meant that the data fit on around 2TB of the backup disk.
I then deleted everything off the PVE server and installed the latest version of PVE on bare metal. The next step was to restore the backup, however this took much longer to do than the restore, after about 3 days it had only done 40% or so, then there was a brief glitch in the power supply (to the whole house) and the restore failed.
Not wanting to wait another week or so for the restore, I plugged the PBS hard drive with the backup on it into the PVE server, with the hope that I could either just copy the vzdump files over and restore from them, or do a restore directly from the backup. However, after SSH-ing in and looking around on the backup drive, I couldn't find the vzdump files, or at least I did find them but they were apparently much smaller than they should have been, looking more like pointers to the actual files, which, if I remember correctly were in folders called something like 'chunk-1' 'chunk-2' etc.
I tried to backup over the network again but there was another power glitch (no I don't have a UPS and yes I know I should have but it's not feasible right now) so it failed again.
So my question is, is there any way I can either: resume a restore from one that has failed, rather than starting again. Or: restore from a hard drive taken from a PBS machine and put into a PVE server?
A third option now occurs to me: install PBS as a VM on the PVE server, attach the disk from the physical (bare metal) PBS to that VM, add this PBS to PVE, and then restore the VM backup to PVE from the virtual PBS (presumably much quicker as they are on the same physical machine, although if it has to be over the network via my consumer-grade router maybe it wouldn't be faster).
Any clues or help on any of this are much appreciated.
The situation is that I have PVE v7 with an Xpenology VM of around 4.2TB. My intention was to reorganise the disks in the server, so I got a 4TB hard drive and made a PBS using an old computer (PBS v2.2). I then backed up the VM over the network (took about 2 days to copy it over, but it worked fine, I got the 'OK' message anyway). The compression meant that the data fit on around 2TB of the backup disk.
I then deleted everything off the PVE server and installed the latest version of PVE on bare metal. The next step was to restore the backup, however this took much longer to do than the restore, after about 3 days it had only done 40% or so, then there was a brief glitch in the power supply (to the whole house) and the restore failed.
Not wanting to wait another week or so for the restore, I plugged the PBS hard drive with the backup on it into the PVE server, with the hope that I could either just copy the vzdump files over and restore from them, or do a restore directly from the backup. However, after SSH-ing in and looking around on the backup drive, I couldn't find the vzdump files, or at least I did find them but they were apparently much smaller than they should have been, looking more like pointers to the actual files, which, if I remember correctly were in folders called something like 'chunk-1' 'chunk-2' etc.
I tried to backup over the network again but there was another power glitch (no I don't have a UPS and yes I know I should have but it's not feasible right now) so it failed again.
So my question is, is there any way I can either: resume a restore from one that has failed, rather than starting again. Or: restore from a hard drive taken from a PBS machine and put into a PVE server?
A third option now occurs to me: install PBS as a VM on the PVE server, attach the disk from the physical (bare metal) PBS to that VM, add this PBS to PVE, and then restore the VM backup to PVE from the virtual PBS (presumably much quicker as they are on the same physical machine, although if it has to be over the network via my consumer-grade router maybe it wouldn't be faster).
Any clues or help on any of this are much appreciated.