diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/wrapper/LibvirtRestoreBackupCommandWrapper.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/wrapper/LibvirtRestoreBackupCommandWrapper.java
index 22dbfbdd67a..cc2a0868fe1 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/wrapper/LibvirtRestoreBackupCommandWrapper.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/wrapper/LibvirtRestoreBackupCommandWrapper.java
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ public class LibvirtRestoreBackupCommandWrapper extends CommandWrapper<RestoreBa
     private static final String ATTACH_RBD_DISK_XML_COMMAND = " virsh attach-device %s /dev/stdin <<EOF%sEOF";
     private static final String CURRRENT_DEVICE = "virsh domblklist --domain %s | tail -n 3 | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}'";
     private static final String RSYNC_COMMAND = "rsync -az %s %s";
+    // Flattens the backing-file chain into a single self-contained qcow2 written to the
+    // destination volume path. Used when the source backup is an incremental whose qcow2
+    // has a backing reference to its parent (chain set up by nasbackup.sh's qemu-img rebase).
+    private static final String QEMU_IMG_FLATTEN_COMMAND = "qemu-img convert -O qcow2 %s %s";
+    // Detects whether a qcow2 file references a parent in its backing-file metadata.
+    // Returns 0 (true) when a backing file is present, 1 when not. Uses --output=json
+    // so the test is robust to qemu-img version differences in human-readable output.
+    private static final String QEMU_IMG_HAS_BACKING_COMMAND =
+            "qemu-img info --output=json %s 2>/dev/null | grep -q '\"backing-filename\"'";
 
     private String getVolumeUuidFromPath(String volumePath, PrimaryDataStoreTO volumePool) {
         if (Storage.StoragePoolType.Linstor.equals(volumePool.getPoolType())) {
@@ -270,10 +279,27 @@ public class LibvirtRestoreBackupCommandWrapper extends CommandWrapper<RestoreBa
             return replaceBlockDeviceWithBackup(storagePoolMgr, volumePool, volumePath, backupPath, timeout, createTargetVolume, size);
         }
 
+        // For NAS-backed incremental backups, the source qcow2 has a backing-file
+        // reference to its parent (set by nasbackup.sh's qemu-img rebase). A plain
+        // rsync would copy only the differential blocks, leaving a volume that
+        // depends on a backing file the primary storage doesn't have. Flatten the
+        // chain via qemu-img convert, which follows the backing-file links and
+        // produces a single self-contained qcow2.
+        if (hasBackingChain(backupPath)) {
+            int flattenExit = Script.runSimpleBashScriptForExitValue(
+                    String.format(QEMU_IMG_FLATTEN_COMMAND, backupPath, volumePath), timeout, false);
+            return flattenExit == 0;
+        }
+
         int exitValue = Script.runSimpleBashScriptForExitValue(String.format(RSYNC_COMMAND, backupPath, volumePath), timeout, false);
         return exitValue == 0;
     }
 
+    private boolean hasBackingChain(String qcow2Path) {
+        return Script.runSimpleBashScriptForExitValue(
+                String.format(QEMU_IMG_HAS_BACKING_COMMAND, qcow2Path)) == 0;
+    }
+
     private boolean replaceBlockDeviceWithBackup(KVMStoragePoolManager storagePoolMgr, PrimaryDataStoreTO volumePool, String volumePath, String backupPath, int timeout, boolean createTargetVolume, Long size) {
         KVMStoragePool volumeStoragePool = storagePoolMgr.getStoragePool(volumePool.getPoolType(), volumePool.getUuid());
         QemuImg qemu;
diff --git a/scripts/vm/hypervisor/kvm/nasbackup.sh b/scripts/vm/hypervisor/kvm/nasbackup.sh
index 04c7d254cdf..5611bae962d 100755
--- a/scripts/vm/hypervisor/kvm/nasbackup.sh
+++ b/scripts/vm/hypervisor/kvm/nasbackup.sh
@@ -268,8 +268,20 @@ XML
       if [[ "$fullpath" == /dev/drbd/by-res/* ]]; then
         volUuid=$(get_linstor_uuid_from_path "$fullpath")
       fi
-      if ! qemu-img rebase -u -b "$PARENT_PATH" -F qcow2 "$dest/$name.$volUuid.qcow2" >> "$logFile" 2> >(cat >&2); then
-        echo "qemu-img rebase failed for $dest/$name.$volUuid.qcow2 onto $PARENT_PATH"
+      # PARENT_PATH from the orchestrator is the parent backup's path relative to the
+      # NAS mount root (e.g. "i-2-X/2026.04.27.12.00.00/root.UUID.qcow2"). Convert it to
+      # a path relative to THIS new qcow2's directory so the backing reference resolves
+      # correctly the next time the NAS is mounted (mount points are ephemeral).
+      local parent_abs="$mount_point/$PARENT_PATH"
+      if [[ ! -f "$parent_abs" ]]; then
+        echo "Parent backup file does not exist on NAS: $parent_abs"
+        cleanup
+        exit 1
+      fi
+      local parent_rel
+      parent_rel=$(realpath --relative-to="$dest" "$parent_abs")
+      if ! qemu-img rebase -u -b "$parent_rel" -F qcow2 "$dest/$name.$volUuid.qcow2" >> "$logFile" 2> >(cat >&2); then
+        echo "qemu-img rebase failed for $dest/$name.$volUuid.qcow2 onto $parent_rel"
         cleanup
         exit 1
       fi