How to restore SolusVM 2 VPS from backup manually

Question

How to restore SolusVM 2 VPS from backup manually

Answer

1. Connect to Compute Resource where the VPS is hosted via SSH
2. Stop VPS:

   # virsh destroy UUID

   Replace UUID with VPS Hypervisor ID which can be foun on VPS page at SolusVM 2 > Virtual Servers > VPS

3. Find VPS image path:

   # virsh domblklist UUID | grep sda | awk {'print $2'}

4. Download the VPS backup to the CR. It should be a compressed VPS image sda.qcow2.zst or sda.raw.zst
5. If the file is a qcow2 image decompress the image, copy it into the VPS image file from step 3:

   # unzstd sda.qcow2.zst
   # dd if=sda.qcow2 of=/path/to/VPS-image bs=512k

   Replace /path/to/VPS-image with the actual path to VPS image from step 3

   If the file is a raw image backup just decompress it and copy into VPS LVM image from step 4:

   # unzstd sda.raw.zst
   # dd if=sda.raw of=/path/to/lvm bs=512k

6. Start VPS:

   # virsh start UUID