Re: xfsdump INTERRUPT issue

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 12/5/2012 8:08 PM, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
> Hi, Stan--
> 
> You're right. I didn't want to look stupid. Sorry. I'll keep it all on the list from now on. 
> 
> Thank you for the example. I hope I have this right. So including the -t and -v would be 
> 
> ~$ xfsdump -J -f -t -v /xfsdump_file /dev/sda0

No.  That's not right.  I gave you concise separate instructions for
xfsdump and for xfsrestore, and you've commingled the two.

Please thoroughly and thoughtfully re-read my last email.

-- 
Stan


> Repeat for each mount point, and post the result here?
> 
> Thanks again. 
> Jeffrey
> 
>> ~$ xfsdump -J -f /some_filesystem_path/test_dump /dev/sda6
> 
> 
> 
> Best,
> J. 
> 
> On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/5/2012 1:07 PM, J. Ellis wrote:
>>
>> This should never have gone off list so I'm copying back.  If you'd have
>> kept this on list you'd have likely already had an answer to this.
>> Going off list for fear of looking ignorant is not a valid reason to do
>> so.  In fact there are very few reasons to ever go off list.  All it
>> does is take people out of the loop who are watching the thread and may
>> be willing to jump in at some point to help.  You've short circuited
>> that by going off list.
>>
>>> I just read the man page again. There doesn't seem to be any examples I can
>>> find to write the dump to a file. I couldn't find a -t option in the man at
>>> all, so maybe the ones I'm finding aren't up to date. Here's the only
>>> example I can find, and I don't know if this would actually work:
>>>
>>> xfsdump -f /usr/tmp/monday_backup -v silent -J -s \ people/fred/Makefile -s
>>> people/fred/Source /usr
>>
>> This is really simple.  Using my previous example, we want to dump to a
>> test file and not update the inventory.  So we have something like:
>>
>> ~$ xfsdump -J -f /some_filesystem_path/test_dump /dev/sda6
>>
>> This dumps the XFS filesystem on /dev/sda6 to a file.  Don't write the
>> dump file to the filesystem you're dumping.  Preferably the XFS you're
>> dumping is on one disk or array and the target file will be written to a
>> different disk or array.  Dumps are IO intensive.
>>
>> I clearly stated the "-t" option in the context of xfsrestore:
>>
>>       -t   Displays  the  contents of the dump, but does not create or
>>            modify any files or directories.  It may be desirable to
>>            set the verbosity level to silent when using this option.
>>
>> This allows you to do a test run without actually writing any files
>> during the restore.  The goal here is to test xfsdump and xfsrestore on
>> your system to see where errors are cropping up.  You don't actually
>> want to restore the dumped filesystem at this point.
>>
>> The "-v" option simply keeps the "-t" from spamming a million file names
>> to your console during the restore operation.
>>
>> -- 
>> Stan
>>
>>
>>> on 12/4/12 10:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner at stan@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/4/2012 7:18 PM, J. Ellis wrote:
>>>>> Hi, Stan--
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, I truly apologize for my ignorance, but I don't know how to dump the
>>>>> contents to a file. Is it something like:
>>>>>
>>>>> xfsdump -J - somefile_xfsdump.txt
>>>>
>>>> ~$ man xfsdump
>>>>
>>>> Look at option "-f".
>>>>
>>>>> xfsrestore -J - somefile_xfsrestore.txt
>>>>
>>>> ~$ man xfsrestore
>>>>
>>>> See options "-f" "-t" and "-v".
>>>>
>>>> The point of this exercise I believe is to see what errors are thrown by
>>>> xfsdump or xfsrestore when they are executed independently, vs through a
>>>> pipe.  Do note that this may not be the final step in testing before you
>>>> have an answer.  Post any errors or informational output that results
>>>> from these commands.
>>>>
>>>> Note that the file written by xfsdump is going to be about the same size
>>>> as the filesystem being dumped.  I.e. if the filesystem being dumped is
>>>> 1TB then you need 1TB of free space on the device where the target
>>>> directory resides--you're dumping an entire XFS filesystem into a single
>>>> file.  Also, be sure to use "-t" so xfsrestore doesn't actually write
>>>> anything.  Did you read "-v"?
>>
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