NetRestore is failing to restore the image
Hi,
I'm hoping that someone can give me some advice with an issue I am having while trying to restore an image onto a new SSD in an external enclosure connected by Firewire to a MacBook Pro. The SSD has been initialised and formatted with Mac OS Journaled and GUID partition and is readable by the OS. But when I try to restore an image it fails. Looking through the log there is something about not enough disk space but I don't understand this as the SSD has 477GB free and the image I'm trying to restore is only 16GB.
May 6 08:32:02 macbook-pro Language Chooser[435]: Not hiding Language Chooser in window counter
May 6 08:32:02 macbook-pro storagekitd[455]: CSLV has no PVs?
May 6 08:32:03 macbook-pro storagekitd[455]: CSLV has no PVs?
May 6 08:32:04 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: Connected to daemon. Language set to: English
May 6 08:32:04 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: Connected to daemon. Language set to: English
May 6 08:32:04 macbook-pro Unknown[436]: 2016-05-06 08:32:04.508 NetRestore[454:14747] Connected to daemon. Language set to: English
May 6 08:32:04 macbook-pro Unknown[436]: 2016-05-06 08:32:04.508 NetRestore[454:14747] Connected to daemon. Language set to: English
May 6 08:32:04 macbook-pro Language Chooser[435]: ISAP: Done with phase “Language Chooser”
May 6 08:32:04 macbook-pro Installer Progress[429]: Ending progress UI via 100% progress.
May 6 08:32:04 macbook-pro Installer Progress[429]: End progress UI called...
May 6 08:32:11 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: LSExceptions [0x7fe290c0b230] unloaded
May 6 08:32:45 macbook-pro Unknown[436]: 2016-05-06 08:32:45.361 NetRestore[454:14627] NSColorList could not parse color list file /System/Library/Colors/System.clr
May 6 08:33:22 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: Preventing machine sleep.
May 6 08:33:23 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: doRestore: preparing to restore /System/Installation/Packages/System.dmg to /Volumes/Mac HD
May 6 08:33:23 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: restoreThread: Validating target...
May 6 08:33:23 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: Start restore (asr-358) - role: client
May 6 08:33:23 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: restoreThread: done
XSTA metadata
Validating source...
May 6 08:33:23 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: restoreThread: done
May 6 08:33:23 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: restoreThread: Retrieving scan information...
May 6 08:33:23 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: restoreThread: done
Validating sizes...
May 6 08:33:23 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: restoreThread: Not enough space on /dev/disk2s2 to restore
May 6 08:33:24 macbook-pro NetRestore[454]: Allowing machine sleep.
Checking the disk space through terminal shows the following (the SSD is /dev/disk2/s2):
-bash-3.2# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk4s1 1.2Gi 1.2Gi 0Bi 100% 322009 0 100% /
devfs 199Ki 199Ki 0Bi 100% 688 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk5 5.0Mi 2.2Mi 2.8Mi 45% 563 715 44% /private/var/log
/dev/disk6 512Ki 144Ki 368Ki 29% 34 92 27% /Volumes
/dev/disk7 512Ki 140Ki 372Ki 28% 33 93 26% /private/var/tmp
/dev/disk8 512Ki 156Ki 356Ki 31% 37 89 29% /private/var/run
/dev/disk9 512Ki 144Ki 368Ki 29% 34 92 27% /System/Installation
/dev/disk10 512Ki 256Ki 256Ki 50% 62 64 49% /private/var/db
/dev/disk11 6.0Mi 3.4Mi 2.6Mi 58% 879 655 57% /private/var/folders
/dev/disk12 2.0Mi 208Ki 1.8Mi 11% 50 460 10% /private/var/root/Library
/dev/disk14 512Ki 164Ki 348Ki 33% 39 87 31% /Library/Preferences
/dev/disk15 512Ki 160Ki 352Ki 32% 38 88 30% /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
/dev/disk16 1.0Mi 140Ki 884Ki 14% 33 221 13% /Library/Keychains
/dev/disk17 6.0Mi 172Ki 5.8Mi 3% 41 1493 3% /private/var/tmp/RecoveryTemp
/dev/disk1 697Gi 72Gi 626Gi 11% 18861343 163981759 10% /Volumes/MAC-081
/dev/disk3s2 15Gi 15Gi 89Mi 100% 3952757 22911 99% /Volumes/Image Volume
/dev/disk2s2 477Gi 428Mi 476Gi 1% 109527 124833393 0% /Volumes/Mac HD
I'm pretty new to using NetRestore as I've always imaged Macs using Casper where the config and image creation was done by a separate team. Anyone have any ideas why this maybe failing? I'm at a loss to understand and would appreciate any knowledge you can throw my way to better understand this issue.
Thanks