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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: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:59:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ge5kle$ueo$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49063F75.7000604@sgi.com>

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.

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28  0:00 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
2008-10-27 22:23   ` Bill Kendall
2008-10-27 23:59     ` Michael Lueck [this message]
2008-10-28  2:10       ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-10-28  2:16         ` Michael Lueck

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