Creating new volume out of snapshot results in empty volume

[garthtrickett]

I have a volume that was attached to a machine that was definitely not empty and when I restore a snapshot of that volume I end up with an empty volume.

I pick a snapshot from before I started working on backups

and I end up with a volume with nothing in it

[mayailurus]

Hi… Don’t panic. This is just a quirk of the dashboard, …

It will display the real size once you’ve connected a real, running machine (≥ once).

$ fly m run debian:bookworm --volume vol_abcd909:/mnt \
  --shell --region syd --vm-size shared-cpu-1x
# cd /mnt
# df -h .  # different way of determining size.
# find     # recursively list all files.
# exit

Arguably “0 MB” is an alarming way of saying “don’t know yet”, but…

Hope this helps!