Bare metal restore to RAID volume The whole idea of doing a bare metal restore from the cloud seems strange to me. In this case I had file and folder backups in the cloud and an image on local storage. I wanted to restore from a local backup. It does not seem that syncing to the cloud makes any sense unless you indicate that you want to restore from the cloud. It is just wasted time. Also, why not default to restore only for all backup locations. What is the use-case for doing anything other than a bare metal restore with a Boot USB?
In this case, I was attempting to restore to a new boot volume so this was not an emergency. I just thought it would be a good chance to test the process. I'm glad I did since there seem to be some problems that I would not want to discover during a real emergency restore. I gave up and used another tool to image the drive.