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From: Michael Lueck <mlueck@lueckdatasystems.com>
To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Bad day with xfsrestore, what went wrong?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:13:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gde1k2$gkp$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)

Greetings-

I hope this is the NNTP equiv of the email list found on this web page:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

I have been using XFS with Debian for a number of years with great success. Today, xfsrestore really threw me a curve ball. I am wondering what went wrong.

I had wanted to restore from an old backup some directories that I discovered I had need of. I used the following syntax to get the restore started:

xfsrestore -J -E -f /mnt/ext_backup/ldslnx01/20061220/data -s shares/data -i -v verbose /srv

I selected some directories to restore through the interactive interface, then allowed it to restore the specified files.

What it ended up doing, HOWEVER, was to restore every file present in that old backup that was no longer on disk!

Thus, what went wrong?

Thanks!

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-19  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-19  1:13 Michael Lueck [this message]
2008-10-27  2:22 ` Bad day with xfsrestore, what went wrong? Michael Lueck
2008-10-27 22:23   ` Bill Kendall
2008-10-27 23:59     ` Michael Lueck
2008-10-28  2:10       ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-10-28  2:16         ` Michael Lueck

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