Veeam Restores on Proxmox local-zfs

Wed, 13 May 2026 13:10:39 -0400

During some disaster recovery work, I deployed a Proxmox cluster to rapidly restore VMs from Veeam but ran into a restore target issue.

Veeam’s Proxmox plugin can back up VMs running on local-zfs just fine. Restoring them is the problem: Veeam won’t use a ZFS pool as a restore target. It needs Directory-type storage. ZFS storage types create zvols for each disk and restoring directly would obviously lead to complexities, especially when trying to export from Veeam as QCOWs.

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Veeam Restores on Proxmox local-zfs