From: "Linda A. Walsh" <xfs@tlinx.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: xfs_restore -R -- recovering a previous restore...does it work?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:52:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2B8440.5030503@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100630172750.GA20764@puku.stupidest.org>
Dmesg shows nothing revealing.
I am not using tape -- I'm restoring from a file.
Does it only work with tapes? I didn't recall it saying so.
-l
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:21:02AM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
>
>> I just had it happen again -- something killed off the window it was
>> executing in -- system didn't go down, but it got a hangup -- a
>> cleaner shutdown -- but it still doesn't recover.
>
> dmesg ...
>
> see anything?
>
>> Under what circumstances should this work? Or does it work?
>
> it used to work for me, i've not tried it recently though, i basically
> gave up tapes (and xfsdump/restore) some time back due to size/cost
> contraints
----
Do you not keep backups at all anymore? Or if you do, do you not
care about the metastuff?
Only other backup util, that I know of, that speaks meta, is 'star'.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-30 12:25 When it rains it pours Linda A. Walsh
2010-06-30 16:21 ` xfs_restore -R -- recovering a previous restore...does it work? Linda A. Walsh
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2010-06-30 17:52 ` Linda A. Walsh [this message]
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2010-06-30 19:10 ` Linda A. Walsh
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2010-07-01 0:06 ` Linda A. Walsh
2010-07-01 0:24 ` When it rains it pours Dave Chinner
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