Jose Calhariz wrote: > 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 > > If you're not already, I recommend restoring into a local directory, then copying into AFS. That will at least make the tape part go faster and reduce wear and tear on the tapes and drive.
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