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Restore LVM-Thin to LVM

I moved a Proxmox node the other day. While restoring the VMs from the backups using the web interface, I got notified that restore doesn’t work because no LVM-Thin storage pool was available.

That was true, I did not configure any LVM-Thin storage. I really didn’t want to, but I was briefly worried I might have to. Thankfully, that was not the case - Proxmox forums provide

# Restore a backup to regular storage: --storage
qmrestore vzdump-qemu-....vma.zst 102 --storage local

Generally, the Proxmox web interface only really exposes the most simple options. The CLI tools and configs do offer a lot more flexibility. I should really make mental note of that.