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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/

  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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