Re: Bad day with xfsrestore, what went wrong?

Michael Lueck
2008-10-27T04:52:41Z

No suggestions / possible answers anyone for my question...

Michael Lueck wrote:
> 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!