Werk #18896: omd restore: Restoring from stdin raises exception

Component

Site management

Title

omd restore: Restoring from stdin raises exception

Date

Apr 1, 2026

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.6.0b1 Not yet released	Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.5.0b3 Not yet released	Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Ultimate MT

This fixes an issue only affecting users of the Checkmk 2.5 beta.

Previously, omd restore raised an exception when restoring from stdin. In particuler, restores on the on the Checkmk Appliance failed. The following error would be displayed.

$ cat omd.backup.tar | omd restore -
Error while sending data to restore process: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
...
OSError: [Errno 29] Illegal seek
Site restore failed

This has been fixed.

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