[SOLVED] Unable to restore VM dump from another system

[Brian Read]

A colleague has sent me a vzdump file to restore.

I am getting this:

root@pve:/backup/backup/dump# qmrestore backup-pvw:backup/vzdump-qemu-108-2021_10_06-19_43_25.vma.gz 121
applying read rate limit: 204800
restore vma archive: cstream -t 209715200 -- /backup/backup/dump/vzdump-qemu-108-2021_10_06-19_43_25.vma.gz | zcat - | vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp177932.fifo - /var/tmp/vzdumptmp177932
CFG: size: 485 name: qemu-server.conf
DEV: dev_id=1 size: 26843545600 devname: drive-scsi0
CTIME: Wed Oct  6 09:43:27 2021
error before or during data restore, some or all disks were not completely restored. VM 121 state is NOT cleaned up.
command 'set -o pipefail && cstream -t 209715200 -- /backup/backup/dump/vzdump-qemu-108-2021_10_06-19_43_25.vma.gz | zcat - | vma extract -v -r /var/tmp/vzdumptmp177932.fifo - /var/tmp/vzdumptmp177932' failed: storage 'storered' does not exist
root@pve:/backup/backup/dump#

 

[oguz]

hi,

see the error message at the end: failed: storage 'storered' does not exist

you can pass --storage option to qmrestore to specify where it should be restored. if --storage isn't specified the volumes will be allocated on the original storage from the configuration file (which doesn't exist on the node you're restoring to)

 

[Brian Read]

aha - many thanks. That works a treat!