On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:15:04PM -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > 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.
I am doing that, As I can recover from tapes faster than I can write to AFS. Specially because I use virtual tapes on disks. > > Jason > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > josé Calhariz -- P.S. [En_US] The sig below is from my random sig-generator, which strangely often seems to pick signatures which are apropriate to the message at hand! P.S. [Pt_Pt] A assinatura em baixo é do gerador aleatório de assinaturas, que estranhamente, escolhe com frequência assinaturas que parecem apropriadas ao email! -- Infeliz o povo que precisa de herois. -- Bertold Brecht
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