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Re: Restore backup to KVM

From solitone <solitone@mail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Restore backup to KVM
Date 2017-09-26 21:50 +0200
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On 26/09/17 17:31, Reco wrote:
>> On 26/09/17 13:01, solitone wrote:
>>> It's strange, since it finds /dev/sda, i.e. the entire disk:
>>>
>>> =========================================================
>>> [    6.438693] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 188743680 512-byte logical blocks:
>>> (96.6 GB/90.0 GiB)
>>> [    6.469182] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
>>> [    6.482421] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
>>> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
>>> =========================================================
>>>
>>> However, it then complains that /dev/sda1 does not exists
> 
> That's because you don't have any partitions on that disk. Partition
> that's start with sector 0 is impossible.

Interesting. I used parted to create one single partition as big as the 
entire file. Here's what parted shows now:

=========================================================
$ /sbin/parted  alan_restore.img
WARNING: You are not superuser.  Watch out for permissions.
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

(parted) p
Model:  (file)
Disk /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img: 96.6GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:

Number  Start  End     Size    File system  Flags
  1      0.00B  96.6GB  96.6GB  ext4
=========================================================

I assumed that that number 1 referred to partition n. 1, but I must be 
mistaken.

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Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-22 06:50 +0200
  Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-22 08:10 +0200
    Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-22 21:20 +0200
      Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-22 21:40 +0200
        Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-24 11:00 +0200
          Re: Restore backup to KVM <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-24 11:20 +0200
          Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-24 12:00 +0200
            Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-25 21:10 +0200
              Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 08:50 +0200
            Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-25 21:20 +0200
              Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 08:50 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-26 13:10 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-26 13:20 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 17:40 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-26 21:20 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-26 21:50 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 09:00 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-27 09:50 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 10:40 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-27 14:10 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-27 19:00 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 09:00 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-29 06:40 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-29 08:40 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-30 13:10 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-09-30 15:50 +0200
                Re: Restore backup to KVM Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-09-30 17:00 +0200

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