* Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070130 01:59]: > 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?
Hi Gene, The DLE is backed up with xfsdump (irix-6.5.x) jf > > -- > 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. -- <° ><
