[SOLVED] Restore after mistakes were made

[gigabot]

Hi All!

Made a bit of a mess here with my 4 node cluster trying to get a 5th to join. In the process of getting the big hammer I deleted the /etc/pve/ folder on each node and no longer have VMs/LXCs running, gui doesn't load but the hosts are up.

I've done some digging on how to recover the data but I'm wondering if anyone has any guidance on how to bring back the GUI to attempt to rebuild the VMs/LXCs and reattaching their storage.

After this stabilized I will be setting up Proxmox Backup Server

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[gigabot]

Update:

Exploring the node that was having issues joining, I discovered that the chrono sync service had copied all the .conf files for each VM/LXC to its local store.

To restore the other nodes, I copied the files with winSCP from each node folder to each node:

From previously synced node:
copy /etc/pve/nodes/node1/* to /etc/pve/nodes/node1/ on the node to restore, then reboot that node.

After the restart I was able to boot the VMs/LXCs with no issue.

Updated for reference and closing.