From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:24:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id m1CCOXTF017824 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:24:40 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:24:46 +1100 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: Restoring damaged incremental XFS dump? Message-ID: <20080212122446.GE155407@sgi.com> References: <1202769551.16458.1236311973@webmail.messagingengine.com> <47B0E26D.7070807@sgi.com> <1202815035.5821.1236404891@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1202815035.5821.1236404891@webmail.messagingengine.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: "Felix E. Klee" Cc: Timothy Shimmin , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:03:57 +1100, "Timothy Shimmin" > said: > > I'm not sure what you mean by "true snapshots". I wouldn't really > > call it snapshots as in what you could get if you froze the > > filesystem etc.. > > Oh, it does not freeze the filesystem - what a pity. I recall someone > telling me that it does. Seems like that was bad information or my > memory is failing on me. Use dm-snap to create a snapshot and do the backup from that. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group