From: Michael Lueck <mlueck@lueckdatasystems.com>
To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Bad day with xfsrestore, what went wrong?
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:22:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ge38k5$qf$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gde1k2$gkp$1@ger.gmane.org>
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!
--
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 1:13 Bad day with xfsrestore, what went wrong? Michael Lueck
2008-10-27 2:22 ` Michael Lueck [this message]
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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