Restoring a Dump to a New Server with a Different Storage Folder Name

forbin

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I backed up a VM located in folder /main_pool on PVE server VMHOST01 to an NFS share on a different server. Now I'm trying to restore it from the NFS server to folder /zpool0 on PVE server VMHOST02. However, when I attempt to restore the dump, I get an error message that 'main_pool' does not exist. That's true, because the new PVE servers use the folder name zpool0, not main_pool. I looked at the binary dump file (.zst) and noticed that it contains the line...

main_pool:base-103-disk-0,cache=writeback,size=150Ghw-scsi-pci

I suppose I could edit the binary file and change main_pool to zpool0, but is there an easier way?
 
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Never mind, figured it out. I just have to select the target storage from the drop-down instead of accepting the default, which is to get it from the backup configuration.
 

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