Re: xfsrestore over ssh?

[Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>]

Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:59, Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> xfsrestore just uses standard posix calls for the most part to
>> restore the files (seeks, writes, etc...) to a mounted filesystem -
>> and in many circumstances can restore on a non-xfs mounted filesystem.
>> It is _NOT_ a low level file system restorer to an unmounted filesystem
>> like some other restorers.
> 
> True, this is why I told it to use /mnt/sda3, not a raw device :)

:), looks like we both misread that.

Should be working then. If you hexdump the start of the dump does it look
reasonable? It should be something like:

molten:/home/donaldd # hexdump -C dump | head
00000000  78 46 53 64 75 6d 70 30  00 00 00 02 02 05 e8 49  |xFSdump0.......I|
00000010  48 85 7c cc 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 0e 86 21 36  |H.|...........!6|
00000020  86 06 e5 1d 17 32 49 a0  ad ea 5d 1d a2 7c d9 a3  |.....2I...]..|..|
00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000100  6d 6f 6c 74 65 6e 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |molten..........|
00000110  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000200  73 6f 6d 65 6c 61 62 65  6c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |somelabel.......|
00000210  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|