From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9R4qWd1010776 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:52:32 -0700 Received: from ciao.gmane.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 7907954990C for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id Zoj99NHwOiA5t1mO for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KuHkA-000827-U3 for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:22:11 +0000 Received: from 75-134-105-39.dhcp.aldl.mi.charter.com ([75.134.105.39]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:22:10 +0000 Received: from mlueck by 75-134-105-39.dhcp.aldl.mi.charter.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:22:10 +0000 From: Michael Lueck Subject: Re: Bad day with xfsrestore, what went wrong? Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:22:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mlueck@lueckdatasystems.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com 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/