On Saturday, 17 March 2018 01:05:06 UTC+11, Unman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 07:36:52PM -0700, Drew White wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm restoring a guest from a backup. > > It starts off and says it's restoring, then suddenly it stops and gives me > > this. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Extracting data: 18.5 GiB to restore > > Some errors occurred during data extraction, continuing anyway to restore > > at least some VMs > > -> Restoring QubesTemplateHVm Win7x64... > > ERROR: VM private image file doesn't exist: > > /var/lib/qubes/vm-templates/Win7x64/private.img > > *** Skipping VM: Win7x64 > > -> Done. Please install updates for all the restored templates. > > Please unmount your backup volume and cancel the file selection dialog. > > Finished with errors! > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > In the backup the file is there. > > The file that it's saying doesn't exist doesn't exist until the restoration > > puts it there. > > > > I have gotten this issue with all the backups I have tried to restore > > recently. > > > > What is going on here please? > > I wish to restore the guest rather than spending 5 days re-creating it. > > > > It should be a simple matter of it working, but it's not. It's confusing > > why it isn't working. > > > > > Can you make sure that the Win7x64 directory doesnt exist and try > again?
After I clicked to restore, it created the directory, and extracted many parts, but then failed. The directory was never there until the restore created it, and it was meant to create the file, but it did not and thus could not find it to put the data in that it was extracting. If I delete the directory while it's extracting it has a bigger hissyfit. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/adee16e2-ff2f-41af-8a5b-469a57717a35%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
