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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Aaron Goulding <aarongldng@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS filesystem recovery from secondary superblocks
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:39:44 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121111223944.GN24575@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABJyUzJ7maOcj+aPkpCvBc1-P+Z-XPsft8rbsVnqgpfyVCs9xQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:08:23PM -0800, Aaron Goulding wrote:
> As I guessed, xfs_repair didn't work. xfs_db does now load with warnings,
> but I fear I don't know enough about that to properly use that tool. I've
> done a search for xfs_irepair but I'm finding very little from that. Where
> is that tool located? I'm understanding a full restore is very unlikely at
> this point, but if I can get anything, I'll consider this project a success
> and a learning experience. :)

xfs_irecover:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-12/msg01782.html

current location:

http://inai.de/projects/hxtools/

You might need to hack it to recovery full files (ISTR is ignore
files larger than a certain size), but tools lke this are your best
bet now.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-11 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-31  5:02 XFS filesystem recovery from secondary superblocks Aaron Goulding
2012-11-01  9:18 ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-11-01 22:59 ` Dave Chinner
2012-11-07 15:24   ` Aaron Goulding
     [not found]     ` <CABJyUz+r7yQSswqyBng_W=fAXxTz9heb88NeiKSeFU7j4ZD=Hw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-08 21:02       ` Dave Chinner
     [not found]         ` <CABJyUzKy4YXVZAj=awVNfPD69eWo2mKhM7a-xWF1Vy-PD989sg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-09 10:48           ` Dave Chinner
2012-11-09 15:22             ` Aaron Goulding
2012-11-11  7:08               ` Aaron Goulding
2012-11-11 22:39                 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-11-14  3:26                   ` Aaron Goulding
2012-11-25  0:20                     ` Aaron Goulding
2012-11-11 22:36               ` Dave Chinner

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