On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:25:03AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jose Calhariz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have lost a fileserver because of a corruption on the reiserfs v3. > > Something like 1000 volumes and 100GB of data were lost. The backups > > were made using amanda with standard tar. > > > My problem is the recovering of the data to the surviving filesystem > > is taking too much time. Something like 7 hours to recover 7 GB. > > Will I need 100hours to recover from tar 100GB? > > What did you tar up? I can think of a lot of possibilities (the raw namei > filesystem, the contents of AFS archived with admin credentials, tarballs > of volume dumps), and the answer somewhat depends.
I have tarballs with the contents of AFS using admin credentials.
>
> If you've archived AFS via tar using admin credentials, I'm not sure
> there's anything you can do that's faster than creating new volumes and
> untarring the contents into those volumes. You can do that directly on
> the relevant file server to reduce your network latency a little.
>
OK
José Calhariz
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