Differential Restore - Limitations
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Hi!
I did not find a further description about the "Differential Restore" - only the blog-post:
https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-89/Can you provide any informations about the limitation?
I can set the option also for "cross-cluster" and "cross-SR"-restores, but what are the exact prerequisits to let it "work"?- Restore to the same SR?
- Restore only to the same pool?
Any additional things to consider?
Thank you and best wishes
KPS -
Hi,
It works if you restore on the same SR where the original VDIs is hosted.
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@olivierlambert
As there is currently no "restore-to-original-location" (what would be great).Is it possible to:
- restore to the same location
- detach old VDI from VM
- attach restored VDI
- delete old VDI
...or is this a problem, as they are "linked" in any way?
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I don't see why doing this?
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@olivierlambert
I have had the problem, that Windows VMs lost their activation after restores.
As the UUID cannot be changed, that would be my way to preserve it as long, as one version of the VM is still there.There was a thread some months ago about how to change/keep the uuid.
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Are you sure it's base on the VM UUID?
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@olivierlambert
I think so. I had some re-activations after restores. VIF-MAC did not change, hypervisor-hardware did not change. -
I don't see the reason, the UUID is completely internal to XAPI. You might want to compare the 2 objects (like doing a diff between 2x xe vdi param list)
