Lxd recover fails "pool name mismatch in its backup"

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Hi,

I re-installed my operating system but didn’t properly backup lxd. I’m trying to run lxd recover after snapshot and zfs sending but I get this error:

Error: Failed validation request: Failed checking volumes on pool “default”: Instance “mycontainer” in project “default” has pool name mismatch in its backup file (“containers” doesn’t match’s pool’s “default”)

Reviewing https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-recover-not-working-on-migrated-zpool/13056 talks about updating the backup.yaml file however I don’t have one. Is there a way I could recreate one or how can I resolve this issue?

Steps taken:
snapshot -r cpool/containers/mycontainer@migrate
zfs send cpool/containers/mycontainer@migrate | zfs receive -F cpool/lxd/containers/mycontainer
zfs destroy cpool/lxd/containers/mycontainer@migrate
lxd recover

Error: Failed validation request: Failed checking volumes on pool “default”: Instance “mycontainer” in project “default” has pool name mismatch in its backup file (“containers” doesn’t match’s pool’s “default”)

Thank you,

Craig

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You will need to mount each instance’s ZFS dataset manually, and then modify the backup.yaml inside it to reflect the change of pool name from “containers” to “default”.

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