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Restore failed

Attempting to restore 8TB APFS drive from 4TB APFS drive, both encrypted. All steps successful until last:

APFS inverter failed to invert the volume. It seems from the posts that many have run into this issue.


iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Nov 16, 2019 9:23 AM

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Nov 16, 2019 11:57 AM in response to bernie274

So, you've done a "brew install xmount" and it worked OK, without errors? Perhaps uninstall xmount and then install again?


Think the command should be something like this (this assumes your container file is located at /Volumes/xxx/container.file and the previous commands in the GitHub article are already done successfully):


sudo xmount --in raw /Volumes/xxx/container.file --out dmg /Volumes/apfs_image



Then continue with steps in the GitHub article , and you will also need to use the "diskutil ap unlockVolume <Disk GUID> -nomount" command since your volume is encrypted and you should already know this GUID, and then the "mount_apfs" command should mount the disk (you need to substitute real apfs device id for the "/dev/disk#" parameter).


Good luck...


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