[SOLVED] Restore VM from separate disk after OS disk failure

[avdol]

Hi,

My proxmox setup involves installation of the OS on 1 120gb ssd and the VM stored on a separate larger 256gb SSD.
The 120gb disk failed but the 256gb is still intact. I have installed proxmox on a new 120gb ssd however I am struggling to gain access to the VM on the 256gb SSD.

For clarity please see below. nvme0n1 is a new nvme ssd that i wish to use as vm storage. I have called it vmdatastore.
sda is the old 2.5" sata sdd which has the vm data i wish to copy to the new nvme ssd.
I have created a new vm 100 on nvme0n1 to match that of sda, however I do not know how to proceed.

Note I have tried using the qm rescan command in shell to try and bring up the "unused harddrive" option within the hardware option of the vm but it didn't work.

 

[Stefan_R]

Please post your storage config ('/etc/pve/storage.cfg'). It seems like you're using LVM and your old pool had a different name - try adding the LVM pool "vmmachines" to your current PVE setup under "Datacenter" -> "Storage".

Alternatively, if you're just trying to copy over the data anyway, just create a new disk with the same capacity (as you seem to have done with VMID 100) and 'dd' the data over, i.e.:

dd if=/dev/mapper/vmmachines-vm--100--disk--0 of=/dev/mapper/vmdatastore-vm--100--disk--0 status=progress bs=1M

Then your new disk will have the same content as the old one and your VM should boot.

 

[avdol]

Please post your storage config ('/etc/pve/storage.cfg'). It seems like you're using LVM and your old pool had a different name - try adding the LVM pool "vmmachines" to your current PVE setup under "Datacenter" -> "Storage".

Alternatively, if you're just trying to copy over the data anyway, just create a new disk with the same capacity (as you seem to have done with VMID 100) and 'dd' the data over, i.e.:

dd if=/dev/mapper/vmmachines-vm--100--disk--0 of=/dev/mapper/vmdatastore-vm--100--disk--0 status=progress bs=1M

Then your new disk will have the same content as the old one and your VM should boot.

Hi,

I used the following command from another.
dd if=/dev/volY/dopefish of=image.raw

The above code worked for VM100 but it seems like I'm out of space to do the same for the remaining vms. How do i locate image.raw and delete?
I intend on using the command you recommended above once i delete the image.raw

 

[avdol]

Hi,

I used the following command from another.
dd if=/dev/volY/dopefish of=image.raw

The above code worked for VM100 but it seems like I'm out of space to do the same for the remaining vms. How do i locate image.raw and delete?
I intend on using the command you recommended above once i delete the image.raw

Found it, it's located my Home directory.

 

[avdol]

Just an update, it looks like both methods mentioned above works