Re: How to retreive a file from an old VM?

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On Friday, 29 March 2024 at 10:48, Aurélien Bompard <abompard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey folks!
> 
> Yesterday the os-control01.stg machine was reinstalled as RHEL9.
> Unfortunately there was a script on there that I forgot to backup. I
> would like, if possible, to retreive it.
> The old VM disk is still on the VM server as
> /dev/vg_guests/os-control01.stg.iad2.fedoraproject.org-el7.
> I tried to naively mount it but it's a block device, not a partition. I
> tried to mount it with the offset that fdisk gives me for the root
> partition:
> # mount -o offset=$((512*5244928)),other,options,here
> /dev/vg_guests/os-control01.stg.iad2.fedoraproject.org-el7 /mnt/tmpextract/
> mount: /mnt/tmpextract: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'.
> But as you can see it's an LVM volume so I can't use it directly.
> I don't want to risk polluting the main LVM setup on the machine, so if
> know of a way to read files from old VM disks I'm interested.
> The file I'd like to get is /usr/local/bin/jobs-summary. It's not a huge
> loss but it's still a few hours of work.
> And if we find a good way of doing this we may want to add it to our

Try guestfish, that should do the job.

# guestfish --ro -a /dev/vg_guests/os-control01.stg.iad2.fedoraproject.org-el7 -i

><fs> ll /usr/local/bin/jobs-summary
><fs> copy-out /usr/local/bin/jobs-summary /tmp



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