Restore of incremental backup for Paralells VM (Windows 10 latest build) on Mac
Don't know if any mac guy's or Acronis tech's have tried this yet or came across this, as I haven't seen any posts on this yet.
My VM development machine done the latest MS update and low and behold on restart game me the error of not able to find desktop folder in systemprofile directory. I've had this before and it cause a real headache, hence why I upgraded my ATI 2016 to 2017 subscription and started to use it again.
Anyway thought hey been backing up my VM every couple of days to protected development changes, I'll restore from a ATI backup. Restored the last backup done and ran the script provided to recreate the hdd header so that Parallels can boot the hd.
On restart of VM Windows 10 crashes with the message saying that cannot load winload it is either corrupted or missing. Checked the VM snapshots and the incremental ATI snapshot is there for that backup. So I tried going back to the snapshot (don't know if this snapshot is readable by Parallels?) and Parallels errors with the usual snapshot error code.
So I tried the original full backup restore with same procedures and it boots fine and I get the same terminal message for the header recreation as I did for the incremental restore.
MacBook-Pro:~ cybermechanic$ bash "/Applications/Acronis True Image.app/Contents/MacOS/recreate_pd_hdd.sh" "/VM/Backup/Windows 10 Dev.pvm"
/VM/Backup/Windows 10 Dev.pvm
Process disk [Windows 10 Dev-0.hdd]
Source image = [/VM/Backup/Windows 10 Dev.pvm/Windows 10 Dev-0.hdd/Windows 10 Dev-0.hdd.0.{7d361290-1104-4838-9e7d-5761b3d80f43}.hds]
Number of storages = 1
Create: #
MacBook-Pro:~ cybermechanic$
I do know the process for incremental restore is Restore Full -> Restore Incremenatal. Could it be the script for recreating the header, just don't know.
There is only two weeks of backups and I have the development code on a separate virtual hd, so at present not much change have been done on the windows disk, but I would like to know what the issue with incremental restores are.
Any help would be much appreciated
Thanks
Jim


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