VM migration from ZFS to EXT4

icd

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I have 2 separate physical HPE DL360 Gen10 servers both with proxmox as hypervisor:
  • Srv1 = zfs file system
  • Srv2 = ext4 file system
Srv1
storage zfs 824G 128K 824G 1% /storage
storage/data zfs 824G 128K 824G 1% /storage/data
storage/data/backups zfs 857G 33G 824G 4% /storage/data/backups
storage/data/images zfs 867G 43G 824G 5% /storage/data/images


Srv2
/dev/sda5 ext4 794G 33G 721G 5% /mnt/data/backups
/dev/sda4 ext4 1007G 54G 902G 6% /mnt/data/images


My task: Migrate a VM from Srv1 to Srv2
I copied the dump .vma file from Srv1 to Srv2 but when I started it in syslog it gives me error = storage 'backups' does not exist:

Feb 21 09:16:44 pve pvedaemon[24061]: start VM 100: UPID:pve:00005DFD:0825D333:5E4F83DC:qmstart:100:root@pam:
Feb 21 09:16:44 pve pvedaemon[22509]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:pve:00005DFD:0825D333:5E4F83DC:qmstart:100:root@pam:
Feb 21 09:16:44 pve pvedaemon[24061]: storage 'backups' does not exist
Feb 21 09:16:44 pve pvedaemon[22509]: <root@pam> end task UPID:pve:00005DFD:0825D333:5E4F83DC:qmstart:100:root@pam: storage 'backups' does not exist


How can be solved this without VM reinstallation?
 
I'm new on Proxmox so was searching for issue to deeply,

Problem solved by changing default storage configuration (/etc/pve/storage.cfg)

As my Error says = storage 'backups' does not exist so I've just created on storage.cfg and exact storage with exact name = backups
 

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