restore warning image format was not specified for rbd

ronsrussell

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On a four node PVE / Ceph Cluster running on identical HP DL380's with 2 x E5420 2.5GHz, 32G RAM, six 250G SSD's. Purchased Community Support :).
I have a problem when attempting to restore.

Here is pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 4.1-34 (running kernel: 4.2.6-1-pve)
pve-manager: 4.1-5 (running version: 4.1-5/f910ef5c)
pve-kernel-4.2.6-1-pve: 4.2.6-34
pve-kernel-4.2.2-1-pve: 4.2.2-16
lvm2: 2.02.116-pve2
corosync-pve: 2.3.5-2
libqb0: 0.17.2-1
pve-cluster: 4.0-30
qemu-server: 4.0-46
pve-firmware: 1.1-7
libpve-common-perl: 4.0-43
libpve-access-control: 4.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 4.0-38
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.5-2
vncterm: 1.2-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.4-21
pve-container: 1.0-37
pve-firewall: 2.0-15
pve-ha-manager: 1.0-18
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-2+deb8u1
lxc-pve: 1.1.5-5
lxcfs: 0.13-pve3
cgmanager: 0.39-pve1
criu: 1.6.0-1
zfsutils: 0.6.5-pve7~jessie

Here is error -
restore vma archive: lzop -d -c /mnt/pve/FreeNAS/dump/vzdump-qemu-1001-2016_02_13-20_00_02.vma.lzo|vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp17470.fifo - /var/tmp/vzdumptmp17470
CFG: size: 423 name: qemu-server.conf
DEV: dev_id=1 size: 85899345920 devname: drive-ide0
DEV: dev_id=2 size: 1073741824000 devname: drive-ide1
CTIME: Sat Feb 13 20:00:03 2016
libust[17543/17543]: Warning: HOME environment variable not set. Disabling LTTng-UST per-user tracing. (in setup_local_apps() at lttng-ust-comm.c:375)
new volume ID is 'Ceph:vm-4002-disk-1'
map 'drive-ide0' to 'rbd:CephCluster/vm-4002-disk-1:mon_host=10.10.10.1\:6789 10.10.10.2\:6789 10.10.10.3\:6789 10.10.10.4\:6789:id=admin:auth_supported=cephx:keyring=/etc/pve/priv/ceph/Ceph.keyring' (write zeros = 0)
libust[17678/17678]: Warning: HOME environment variable not set. Disabling LTTng-UST per-user tracing. (in setup_local_apps() at lttng-ust-comm.c:375)
new volume ID is 'Ceph:vm-4002-disk-2'
map 'drive-ide1' to 'rbd:CephCluster/vm-4002-disk-2:mon_host=10.10.10.1\:6789 10.10.10.2\:6789 10.10.10.3\:6789 10.10.10.4\:6789:id=admin:auth_supported=cephx:keyring=/etc/pve/priv/ceph/Ceph.keyring' (write zeros = 0)
libust[17473/17473]: Warning: HOME environment variable not set. Disabling LTTng-UST per-user tracing. (in setup_local_apps() at lttng-ust-comm.c:375)
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'rbd:CephCluster/vm-4002-disk-1:mon_host=10.10.10.1\:6789 10.10.10.2\:6789 10.10.10.3\:6789 10.10.10.4\:6789:id=admin:auth_supported=cephx:keyring=/etc/pve/priv/ceph/Ceph.keyring' and probing guessed raw.
Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'rbd:CephCluster/vm-4002-disk-2:mon_host=10.10.10.1\:6789 10.10.10.2\:6789 10.10.10.3\:6789 10.10.10.4\:6789:id=admin:auth_supported=cephx:keyring=/etc/pve/priv/ceph/Ceph.keyring' and probing guessed raw.
Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
libust[4437/4437]: Warning: HOME environment variable not set. Disabling LTTng-UST per-user tracing. (in setup_local_apps() at lttng-ust-comm.c:375)

Any assistance is appreciated.
Ron
 
Because of the lack of response to this posting and in order to get this VM restored I have installed a stand alone PMVE server and succesfully restored the VM.
I'm still hoping for a response :)
 

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