Hi,
please keep the discussion on the mailing list (and don't address me
directly), you never know who might be able to help, or who might need
the solution.
On 23/02/2025 13:07, Eric Beversluis wrote:
Hi Eric,
When I tried to reproduce the original VM by clicking on the .vbox file,
I got this error message:
Failed to open virtual machines located in .../VirtualBox VMs/Windows10
VM/Windows 10 VM.vbox. Callee RC: NX_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0X80070057)
You are probably better off asking in a VirtualBox forum. Reading
through https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=110774 I get the
impression that the issue is some expectations on the devices (there the
ISO) being available on the host, which are most probably not part of
the backup.
See especially the comment
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=544847&sid=1dd533b8b7d03facbea8b6d9e371a3c3#p544847
Nearly as I can tell from searching, that's a kind of generic error
message that doesn't help much.
You are possibly right, I wouldn't know, I haven't used VirtualBox for
decades.
I think I should also be able to create a new VM by importing the
old .vdi image. But when I try that approach, VirtualBox can't find
the .vdi image, even though it's in the 'VirtualBox VMs' directory.
Somewhere in my vague memory, from years ago when I was more active with
this stuff, there's the idea that copying an image as image is different
from copying the files in an image. Could that be relevant here? I
definitely would have run rdiff-backup with the VM shut down.
Well, you can do backup from within the VM, at the OS level, or from
outside at the VM image level, but apparently here you've done it from
outside.
Sorry I can't help more but it sounds more like a VirtualBox than an
rdiff-backup issue.
KR, Eric
Thanks.
Eric Beversluis
www.ericbeversluis.com
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On 2/23/25 2:46 AM, EricZolf wrote:
Hi,
I have no clue of virtual box but which error message do you get?
Did you backup the image while the VM was switched off? Else it could
get inconsistent...
KR, Eric
On February 23, 2025 4:48:18 AM UTC, Eric Beversluis via Any
discussion of rdiff-backup <rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org> wrote:
I've been backing up my VirtualBox VM as part of my rdiff-backiup of
my Home directory (Fedora 40).
My Window 10 VM got destroyed, and I'm trying to recreate it, but
VirtualBox does not seem to be able to recognize or deal with my
restored rdiff-backup files of the VM. Everything seems to be there,
but VB doesn't seem to recognize the .vdi file at all and I get an
error when I click on the .vbox file, which is supposedly what
retriggers the new VM.
Does anyone know why I can't restore from my rdiff-backup of the
virtual machine? I thought I was being very prudent with backing up
the VM.
