Hi there, hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.
We had a client with a KVM machine and we used Cloudmin to backup their system (not with snapshot). The backup succeeded. We never received a response on our KVM issue on here so we just gave up on that and went with Xen. When we untared the customers backup, we noticed that it didn't have any extension like .img. It was just named the hostname of the server as the filename so we don't know what kind of file it is. We added it is a disk to the new Xen virtual machine but every time we try to mount, it shows as:
mount: /dev/xvdf2 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: unknown filesystem type '(null)'
What is the best approach to mount this disk so we can access the client's server files? Looking forward to hearing back from you guys. Thanks!
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Hi,
Perhaps, explicitly specifying filesystems type, like
mount /dev/xvdf2 /mnt/user1 -t ext4.Figured out a way to do it and hopefully this helps someone else in the future.
All you have to do is follow this guide, it worked flawlessly:
http://www.linux-admins.net/2012/05/accessing-contents-of-kvm-disk-image...
This was done on the host system and now we will just SCP the files from the host system to the VM.
Fixed