Created attachment 1931788 [details] restored qcow2 drive seen by gparted Fedora 36 and 37 dump-0.4-0.49.b47.fc36.x86_64 I have an absolute disaster on my hands. Dump does not properly restoring my qemu-kvm qcows2 drives. This is a change from Fedora 35 where I frequently restored my qcows2 drive after goofing my Windows Virtual Machines' (VM's) with updates (have to simulate what my customers see). All VM were off during the dump backup. I will attach what gparted sees (booting the VM off a live iso). Basically, the restored drive comes back a blank drive In the following, the qcows2 file whit the date on the end is the good file. The one without the date is the restored file: # ls -al KVM-W11.qcow2 KVM-W11.qcow2_2022-12-11 -rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 33615708160 Dec 8 02:28 KVM-W11.qcow2 -rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 33615708160 Dec 8 02:28 KVM-W11.qcow2_2022-12-11 # sha256sum KVM-W11.qcow2 KVM-W11.qcow2_2022-12-11 2ed61cdbb654c5a6c69200d5531a5147653561c13f75944fb1086d9c80fcd96b KVM-W11.qcow2 05c48a0994a8c6f748e218104c7a6fd9117b4de357a97c51704ed74082c26f04 KVM-W11.qcow2_2022-12-11 As you can see, they are the same size but not the same contents! This was the restore command: # restore -if /lin-bak/2022-12-10_rootExt4Dump.gz If this does not get fixed, it is going to screw me big time!
I should point out that my qcows2 files are "Sparse"
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