Had a drive failure on a host today. Replaced the drive and attempting to restore.
Couldn’t get the restore to even try, so created an empty VM named the same as the system I am restoring. Now the restore looks like it is going, but isn’t usable after the restore finishes.
Am I missing something?
I couldn’t restore my backups either but I was able to mount the old drive temporarily to copy the contents of /etc/webmin/servers
If you can do that you can just copy your backed up VM files to the default location (/kvm I think is the default) and it should work.
To restore I created the VM again as an empty VM.
Once done I gunzipped the vm.domain.tlc.gz file from the backups and then copied that file to the vm.domain.tld.img.
After that starting up the VM worked for me, but really felt clunky for a system that says it has a restore function.