Dead proxmox server, ideas about how to rescue data?

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Hello and good day… here’s the situation:

One dead proxmox server, proxmox installed on nvme disk and VM on another HDD… the nvm is compleatly dead nothing to do there. My question is, there is any way to save the VM on the other disk o data from it ?

installing the HDD on another machine and zpool import later i have this:

`root@soporte:~# zfs list
NAME                                             USED  AVAIL     REFER  MOUNTPOINT
Maquinas_Virtuales_HDD                           682G   218G       96K  /Maquinas_Virtuales_HDD
Maquinas_Virtuales_HDD/vm-100-disk-0             219G   415G     20.5G  -
Maquinas_Virtuales_HDD/vm-100-disk-1             103G   321G      248M  -
Maquinas_Virtuales_HDD/vm-100-state-PRODUCCION  17.0G   231G     3.72G  -
Maquinas_Virtuales_HDD/vm-999-disk-0            33.0G   249G     1.50G  -
Maquinas_Virtuales_HDD/vm-999-disk-1             309G   399G      128G  -`

Any way to use this for something ? rescue VM ? save any data from here ?
ideas, thoughts are all wellcome.

Thank you all :smiley: and good day.
And sorry for english, not my native language

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That is just a zfs store with bog standard vm images in it. Pop in a new nvme disk, load blank proxmox, point the storage at the already created zfs.

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If the VM image is fine then you haven’t lost any data, just the configuration for the VM which should be easy enough to recreate on a new proxmox install. You will probably have to manually edit the config file to attach the existing VM disk to it as I think the GUI only let’s you add new disks.

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It depends.

This has tons of info on connecting existing disks.

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You should be able to access them no matter what. Whether it is with an rsync or a zpool import or a zfs send you should be able to recover everything.