From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:39:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m1BMcn1j017719 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:38:54 -0800 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id CC338D60E3B for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:39:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id DjU8Vkwbwieo5hLE for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:39:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8D390A7A for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:39:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1202769551.16458.1236311973@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: "Felix E. Klee" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Restoring damaged incremental XFS dump? Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:39:11 +0100 Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com I wonder whether I should use xfsdump as a replacement for a more traditional incremental backup solution centered around the TAR archiver STAR. The advantage of STAR seems to be that files can also be recovered even if, for example, the level 0 dump is damaged. After all, one is dealing with TAR, a pretty transparent archive format. The advantage of xfsdump is that it creates true snapshots. So, what happens when the level 0 dump created with xfsdump becomes damaged. Will I still be able to recover some files? What about files from >0 dumps? -- Dipl.-Phys. Felix E. Klee Naunynstr. 2, 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany Tel.: +49 7221 396961, Fax: +49 7221 396960, Mobile: +49 174 1386060 http://www.linkedin.com/in/feklee