From: Robert White <rwhite@pobox.com>
To: Christian Tschabuschnig <tschaboo@gmx.at>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does btrfs-restore report missing/corrupt files?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:39:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <544EE5B1.5040704@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-716ca1fa-5a94-4624-9e01-8f4c4b500e46-1414310389248@3capp-gmx-bs26>
On 10/26/2014 12:59 AM, Christian Tschabuschnig wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> currently I am trying to recover a btrfs filesystem which had a few subvolumes. When running
> # btrfs restore -sx /dev/xxx .
> one subvolume gets restored.
Important Aside: The one time I had to resort to btrfs restore I didn't
get the contents of _many_ of the really small files. My _guess_ is that
those where the files small enough to reside entirely within the
original filesystem's metadata.
You should mount the filesystem read-only and recursively copy the
hirearchy to another file system as well as doing a restore. The two
results can then be folded together, or at least the former might help
you find some of what the latter might miss.
I could be totally wrong, or restore could have been improved since
then, but it was what seemed to be happening.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-28 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-26 7:59 Does btrfs-restore report missing/corrupt files? Christian Tschabuschnig
2014-10-28 0:39 ` Robert White [this message]
2014-10-28 6:15 ` Duncan
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