Where are my VM backups gone?

fpdragon

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Hi,

As described in an other post, I had a crash with my Proxmox server and several VMs.
I still have a drive of one of my windows machines, which I used as CIFS/SMB share in Proxmox. There I created my Proxmox backups.

Now I reinstalled Proxmox and mounted the CIFS share on the new setup but no backups, no images, nothing is shown in PVE.

Here are some screenshots:
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in proxmox

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in windows

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the drive in WizTree...

The share is provided by a Windows Server 2022 and the storage is a Windows Storage Space with Tiering enabled and ReFS file system format.

So now to my question:
What the hell has happened?
I see that 1.1TB are in use but if I go through the directories, no files are there.
In P:\dump\vzdump-qemu-*.tmp\qemu-server.conf there are several directories of that kind and there is just the conf file with about 2KB.
Any idea where the real backup data has gone or how to access it?
I know it could be a Win question but maybe you have an idea.

Show hidden and show system files is activated.

I guess my backups are there somewhere since the space is allocated?!

Thanks.

PS: I really had no luck the last days. xD
 
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