On Thursday 25 January 2007 14:33, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: >Hello, > >Anyone will have a poke at this? > >jf > >* Jean-Francois Malouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070122 13:57]: >> Hi, >> >> Last Friday a user managed to remove her entire home directory :) >> so I started an amrecover session (2.5.1p2, client is the server, >> irix-6.5) using the last full backup of the DLE (backed up with >> xfsdump). This DLE while not that big (~70GB) has a lot of small files >> (the uncompressed index file for the full shows ~1M entries). After a >> few hours waiting for the prompt back from amrecover after doing the >> setdisk I aborted the session, started a screen session and did the >> whole thing again, and left work. Later at night I reattached to my >> screen session and still nothing. Did the same thing Saturday morning >> and finally got a prompt back. But while in amrecover I tried to cd >> into the home of the user I got 'no such directory' or similar. >> Checking the index file I see all her files. And doing a 'ls' at the >> root of the DLE only shows part of the directory structure of the home >> disk. To restore her files I had to use the baremetal restore command >> 'dd if=<> skip=1 bs=32k | xfsrestore -i - .' Makes me a little >> nervous. Any one has any idea what might be the problem? >> >> regards >> jf
I think my first question might be what version of tar are you using? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
