Unable to restore to a passthrough hard disk

[Mirmanium]

Hi all,

I have a special need to use a hard disk passthrough with a windows 11 installed. I am able to backup the passthrough disk but I am UNABLE to restore it to the same device.
There is no way since physical disk does not appear to be selected in the storage menu.


Is there any way to restore a backup to a full physical disk? using CLI maybe?

Thank you,

 

[LnxBil]

I am able to backup the passthrough disk but I am UNABLE to restore it to the same device.

Are you sure you can backup it? I don't think that works. Please look at the backup log if there is something present there.

 

[Mirmanium]

Yes I can.
I can select the physical HD with the Backup option and then run the backup.
Also once completed I can browse files into it.

 

[Mirmanium]

Mmm... I am wondering if clonezilla could be used to restore a backup done by PBS. I don't know if will recognize the image or I would need to map it somewhere to restore using CZ.
Anyone did something similar before?

 

[XRedShark]

Same problem. i have a VM with 4 disks in passthrough, backup works fine, but restore fails. I downloaded the IMGs and am restoring them by hand.