From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p7TGiIvC081372 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:44:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4E5BC1DE.6080506@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:44:14 -0500 From: Bill Kendall MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfsrestore Does Only Only Partial Restore References: <1314635781.16065.YahooMailClassic@web77703.mail.sg1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1314635781.16065.YahooMailClassic@web77703.mail.sg1.yahoo.com> 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: Gim Leong Chin Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Gim Leong Chin wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Right now the log file is already over 500 MB and growing. Even after compression I do not think I can mail it as an attachment. > > Is there any other way that I can send you the log files? If you could just send the last few thousand lines that should be sufficient. If I do end up needing more than that I can provide an ftp drop for you. Thanks, Bill > > > GL > > --- On Mon, 29/8/11, Bill Kendall wrote: > >> From: Bill Kendall >> Subject: Re: xfsrestore Does Only Only Partial Restore >> To: "Gim Leong Chin" >> Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com >> Date: Monday, 29 August, 2011, 10:11 PM >> Gim Leong Chin wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This is the very first time I tried doing a xfsrestore >> of a back up and I hit some serious trouble. >>> I had openSUSE 11.1 (kernel 2.6.27) on my Acer >> notebook. I did a xfsdump of /home to a WD My Passport >> external USB hard drive with XFS on it. >>> I installed openSUSE 11.4 (kernel 2.6.37), then tried >> to do xfsrestore from the WD USB drive. The dump file >> is 121 GB. >>> I tried two times on two different days, but each time >> the xfsrestore would stop writing at the exact same point, >> 49 GB and say success at the end. >>> I then copied the dump file to one hard drive on my >> desk top, and did a dump to another hard drive, to >> /tmp/mnt3. I get back identical messages: >> ... >> >>> 9>xfsrestore: attempt to read 1008286921 bytes >> failed: end of recorded data >> >> xfsdump breaks a file's data into "extents" that are a max >> size of 16 MB. >> The fact that this is trying to read almost 1 GB here >> indicates that >> the extend header is corrupt. >> >> ... >> >>> xfsrestore: content.c:7510: >> restore_extent_group: Assertion `ehdr.eh_type == 4' failed. >> >> As Dave said, this also indicates a corrupt extent header. >> >> I'd recommend adding "-v 5" to your xfsrestore command line >> and redirecting the >> (very verbose) output to a file, and send that compressed >> output to me or the >> list. It'd be best to do this with more than one of your >> dumps so we can see >> if there's a pattern to where the corruption occurs. >> >> Bill >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xfs mailing list >> xfs@oss.sgi.com >> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs >> > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs