Restoring VM from backup

[wraaath]

Hey everyone.
I have a backup hard drive as a ZFS-pool containing the backup jobs I made of my VM.
I plugged in my hard drive and Proxmox recognizes it contains vm-100-disk-0 under "VM Disks", but I can't figure out how to restore my VM from it. The only button highlighted is the "remove" button.
Is it because I already have a VM running with the id of 100?

Would appreciate som help on this, thanks

 

[leesteken]

vm-100-disk-0 is not the result of a backup job. It is the old virtual disk. Backups are usually stored on a directory storage. You'll need to mount/import the directory with the backups you made as a storage (that contains backups) and use the Restore button.
Or you create a new VM with the same settings (from your memory) and copy the data from the old virtual disk(s) to the new one(s).

 

[wraaath]

vm-100-disk-0 is not the result of a backup job. It is the old virtual disk. Backups are usually stored on a directory storage. You'll need to mount/import the directory with the backups you made as a storage (that contains backups) and use the Restore button.
Or you create a new VM with the same settings (from your memory) and copy the data from the old virtual disk(s) to the new one(s).

I tried looking for the backups on the drive but can't seem to find them, do you know where they are usually stored or what I can do to find them? What files should I look for?

 

[leesteken]

I tried looking for the backups on the drive but can't seem to find them, do you know where they are usually stored or what I can do to find them?

They were stored in the ZFS filesystem you created for directory storage and which you selected for your backups. I don't know how to guess what you chose.
EDIT: If you did not create the ZFS filesystem, then you probably put them on "local", which is on the same drive as your previous Proxmox installation.