<div dir="ltr">I did read that but that doc doesnt seem to have any real actionable items. It seems more like a design spec rather than a walkthrough / README or HOWTO on how to recover from a backed up storage domain<div><br></div><div>I tried 'An import screen for NFS Storage Domain' by doing the following :</div><div><br></div><div>system -> "storage tab" -> import existing domain</div><div><br></div><div>Below you can see the CLI of the backed up domain</div><div><br></div><div><div>[root@node01 t]# ll</div><div>total 4</div><div>drwxr-xr-x. 5 vdsm kvm 4096 Dec 8 10:05 c2ce3235-1e09-46b6-9dcd-3fffd6238879</div><div>-rwxr-xr-x. 1 vdsm kvm 0 Feb 1 23:14 __DIRECT_IO_TEST__</div><div>[root@njsevcnp01 t]# du -sch ./* | grep G</div><div>29G<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>./c2ce3235-1e09-46b6-9dcd-3fffd6238879</div><div>29G<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>total</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>and this is the result I received (before/after) <a href="http://imgur.com/a/UvGmr">http://imgur.com/a/UvGmr</a> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Elad Ben Aharon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebenahar@redhat.com" target="_blank">ebenahar@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Did you try to import the data domain as an existing one to the DC [1]?<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportStorageDomain" target="_blank">http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportStorageDomain</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Charles Kozler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charles@fixflyer.com" target="_blank">charles@fixflyer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Say I have backed up a storage domain to another NFS. I now want to restore that backup. What would be the best method to restore all the disk images on that domain? I have tried export domains and importing existing domains but every time it says they are not empty and they "may be from somewhere else". They are in fact from somewhere else but that is somewhat the point of the exercise<div><br></div><div>I am attempting to simulate a restore-from-backup (basically just an rsync of the entire storage domain to an offsite location) and its not going as planned. I have all the VM images and can ensure they are all in tact but ovirt refuses to acknowledge it</div><div><br></div><div>I have also tried setting up a new storage domain and then copying the backup images directory to the new images directory under the newly established storage domain. ovirt sees the used space go down but does not reference / acknowledge / view any of the data actually there unless it creates it itself</div><div><br></div><div>How can I restore an rsync backup of a storage domain? 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