From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o5UHnMB1138852 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:49:22 -0500 Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 681EE14B3C25 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [173.164.175.65]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id RXuebcyXp6TlI9bz for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C2B8440.5030503@tlinx.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:52:00 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfs_restore -R -- recovering a previous restore...does it work? References: <4C2B37D6.50801@tlinx.org> <4C2B6EEE.5050103@tlinx.org> <20100630172750.GA20764@puku.stupidest.org> In-Reply-To: <20100630172750.GA20764@puku.stupidest.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: xfs-oss 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'. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs