VM Restore

23.03.2021 01:54

Restoring VM’s after a host SSD gets cooked.

When I went to power my homelab server back on, after sitting idle for 8 months while we moved house, it displayed some concerning ata device warnings on boot. After a reboot it failed an automatic run of fsck -a and recommended performing a manual run. The root device /dev/mapper/pve-root was corrupted and after performing several manual filesystem checks the system could no longer boot. The 64G SanDisk SSD(SDSSDP-064G) I was using as the OS disk had shit the bed.

These are some notes from the process of reinstalling the host OS (Proxmox VE) and restoring the VM’s from backup.

  1. Remove the dead drive and reinstall Proxmox to a backup 128G SSD. (I’ve got a brand new NVME drive on the way to replace this one)
  2. Mount the 2 WD Black 1TB drives I use as directory/VM disk storage to the host.
  3. Recreate the config files for the VM’s…
root@pve:/etc/pve/qemu-server# ls
100.conf  101.conf  102.conf  104.conf

root@pve:/etc/pve/qemu-server# cat 100.conf
boot: order=scsi0;ide2;net0
cores: 2
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 2048
name: freenas
net0: virtio=3E:94:1D:50:03:30,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsi0: black1:100/vm-100-disk-1.raw,size=32G
scsi1: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WMC4M1155464,size=2000G
scsi2: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M2XPP587,size=2000G
scsi3: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M0173865,size=2000G
scsi4: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M7KDVTJ7,size=2000G
scsi5: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M6NXP2AJ,size=2000G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=0469a370-945e-4225-a53e-9f2cc8b7b1ff
sockets: 1
vmgenid: b74c87a6-b8f7-42ae-a47c-14c426cfb856

root@pve:/etc/pve/qemu-server# cat 101.conf
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 4
memory: 6144
name: docker-01
net0: virtio=92:D5:CF:4C:76:8E,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
scsi0: black1:101/vm-101-disk-1.raw,size=66G
scsi1: black1:101/vm-101-disk-2.raw,size=200G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=fc830c01-699d-4e7e-8255-2b6e8b451013
sockets: 1
usb0: host=046d:0994

root@pve:/etc/pve/qemu-server# cat 102.conf
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 4
lock: backup
memory: 4096
name: minecraft
net0: virtio=12:1A:83:CD:0E:D2,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
scsi0: black2:102/vm-102-disk-1.qcow2,size=200G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=e1feb44f-bfc2-4a75-b175-3c6df2e55b13
sockets: 1

root@pve:/etc/pve/qemu-server# cat 104.conf
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 1
memory: 512
name: mysql-01
net0: virtio=0A:08:2B:8E:1B:3E,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
protection: 1
scsi0: black2:104/vm-104-disk-1.raw,size=16G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=46dd2aeb-e04a-4c4c-9b71-71844efb79f7
sockets: 1
startup: order=2
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