How to backup the installed distributions and install to another machine？

[lihuixian001]

I have installed a distribution called ubuntu1. I tried to compress it to ubuntu1.tar.gz, and then unzip and
LxRunOffline register it , but run failed:

[LOG] Calling Win32 API WslLaunchInteractive.
[LOG] Exit code is 1.

[DDoSolitary]

How did you create the .tar.gz file (the command you used)?

[lihuixian001]

in wsl:

cd /
tar vzcpf /tmp/ubuntu_`date +%Y%m%d_%H`.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/dev --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/lost+found  --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/sys  --exclude=/run / > /tmp/ubuntu_`date +%Y%m%d_%H`.log 2> /tmp/ubuntu_`date +%Y%m%d_%H`.error

[DDoSolitary]

And how did you unzip it? I just created a .tar.gz file using the command you provided and installed it with LxRunOffline install. It worked without problems.

[lihuixian001]

mkdir ubuntu2/rootfs
tar vxzpf ubuntu*.tar.gz -C ./ubuntu2/rootfs
and then LxRunOffline register ...
but it got error :0x80070040

I try to install the .tar.gz file with LxRunOffline install , but when I LxRunOffline run, got:

[ERROR] Couldn't open the file or directory "C:\work\ubuntu1\rootfs\.\.\@LongLink".

I follow the steps belowed，Then I set up LongPathsEnabled for enable, but it didn't work

1) run regedit.exe as administrator
(2) locate [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
(3) change data value [LongPathsEnabled] (DWORD) to "1"
(4) close regedit and restart Windows

environmental :

Windows 10 RS4 Build 17101
LxRunOffline 2.2.2
16.04.2-server-cloudimg-amd64-root 

[DDoSolitary]

You can not extract this way because files created via /mnt/* paths lacks NTFS extended attributes required by WSL.

And the error occurred when installing is caused by the fact that LxRunOffline currently doesn't support the GNU extensions of tar format. I'll try to fix it ASAP.

[DDoSolitary]

@lihuixian001 BTW, before this bug is fixed, you can use the LxRunOffline duplicate command and a USB stick to copy your installation to other machines.

[DDoSolitary]

Fixed in v3.
#36