[pbs-devel] PBS File Retore for NTFS with deduplication enabled leads to corrupted files

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 27.04.22 09:35, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> users do report success with mapping + attaching the disk to an existing 
> (version-matching) windows VM for manual file-restoring, so we could 
> also think whether it's possible to streamline this approach somehow 
> ("attach disk RO from backup" on the PVE side?), since it's a lot more 
> flexible for other use cases as well (e.g., encrypted disks inside the 
> VM, storage management or FS we don't support in our file-restore VM, 
> FS features that are not available in our file-restore VM kernel (yet or 
> anymore ;)), ..). obviously an advanced use case, and for simple cases 
> the existing file-restore approach is far nicer UX-wise.

IMO the better idea than using some other NTFS implementation, as there's no
free one that can support all newest features and details 100%.
This can also be useful in general, i.e., for other, more esoteric FS.