[SOLVED] Problems migrating from 6.4 to 7.0 - error restoring backup

[jmaitra]

Hello,

I tried to migrate from 6.4 to 7.0. I made a snapshot of my existing VM an installed with the 7.0 ISO-Image from scratch. After this I wanted to restore a backup from my 6.4 - version. First I had to rename the .tar file to .tgz; after doing this I received the enclosed error message.

Any suggestions ? Thank you for your response.


Best regards
Jens

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

First I had to rename the .tar file to .tgz; after doing this I received the enclosed error message.

how did you create the backup?
what's inside the tar-file?
did you copy it to /var/lib/pmg/backup ?

 

[jmaitra]

I created the backup with the pmg backup tool (Version 6.4). I enclosed a screenshot of the content of the tar file. Yes, Icopied it to /var/lib/pmg/backup.

Best regards Jens

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Hm - archive looks ok from what I can see...

could you try:

mkdir /tmp/proxrestore_1111.5555
cd /tmp/proxrestore_1111.5555
tar xzf /var/lib/pmg/backup/<nameofyourbackup>.tgz

and see if this works?

 

[jmaitra]

Thanks !

The goal was to extract the tar-archive of the 6.4 installation (tar -xvf) and make a tgz-archive (tar -czf) needed for the 7.0. Thank you for your assistance !

Best regards
Jens

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

I'm still pretty sure that nothing changed regarding the backup .tgz between 6.4 and 7.0 - so I'm still a bit confused how that happened - but in any case glad you solved your issue!