Re: Bad day with xfsrestore, what went wrong?

Michael Lueck
2008-10-28T00:00:03Z

Bill Kendall wrote:

> I tried to reproduce this using the command line you supplied, but
> everything worked as expected for me.

Glad to hear that. Seems my tried and true syntax _can_ still work.

> Perhaps try it without the -i (so that only subtrees given with -s are restored), just to rule out
> the possibility that you inadvertently added all files to the restore list.

Enough putzing with a production server I think.

It was odd that it only put back files present in that old backup set and did not overwrite everything... thankfully!

Anyway, thanks for checking / verifying my usual restore syntax that it is the correct syntax.