Description of problem: when I ran rhevm-migrate-windows.ps1 on the windows machine (2.2) I was asked to give a full path for the temporary directory. this to me meant that I need to create a directory (lets say c:\tmp\migration) and give that end point directory in the script. as it turns out we need to give a directory which does not exist for example c:\tmp\migration\backup (where backup directory does not yet exist) the guide even says that it makes a copy of the directory selected: this script makes a backup of the SQL Server database and copies other important files to the backup directory that you selected Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.2 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. run rhevm-migrate-windows.ps1 2. give the tool an existing dir (full path) 3. Actual results: we get an error: The directory "C:\migration\backup" already exists. Expected results: we should be able to select a directory (which means giving the pull path) or fix documentation to explain that the target directory will be created by the script so we should give a path+directory and backup name Additional info:
The tool prints the following message right before asking for the location of the directory: -- The backup of the database and some other important files that need to be copied to the Linux machine will be stored in a temporary directory that will be created for you. Please provide the full path for that temporary directory below: -- I think that the tool already does effort enough to make sure that the user understands that the directory will be created, and it also complains when the directory exists. I am not against improving the documentation, so I am closing with the "requires_doc_text" flag.