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From: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
To: "Proxmox Backup Server development discussion"
	<pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
	"Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>,
	"Roland Sturm" <r.sturm@cibex.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs-devel] PBS File Retore for NTFS with deduplication enabled leads to corrupted files
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:16:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa90594e-dfdf-fb03-c88c-a997360df084@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1651044569.oo1skrc0qp.astroid@nora.none>

On 27.04.22 09:35, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> users do report success with mapping + attaching the disk to an existing 
> (version-matching) windows VM for manual file-restoring, so we could 
> also think whether it's possible to streamline this approach somehow 
> ("attach disk RO from backup" on the PVE side?), since it's a lot more 
> flexible for other use cases as well (e.g., encrypted disks inside the 
> VM, storage management or FS we don't support in our file-restore VM, 
> FS features that are not available in our file-restore VM kernel (yet or 
> anymore ;)), ..). obviously an advanced use case, and for simple cases 
> the existing file-restore approach is far nicer UX-wise.

IMO the better idea than using some other NTFS implementation, as there's no
free one that can support all newest features and details 100%.
This can also be useful in general, i.e., for other, more esoteric FS.




  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-27 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-27  4:30 Dietmar Maurer
2022-04-27  7:35 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2022-04-27 12:16   ` Thomas Lamprecht [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-04-22 10:04 Dietmar Maurer
2022-04-22 10:54 ` Roland Sturm
2022-04-19  9:11 Daniel Koch

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