On Mar 08 2016, Ilya Yakushin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello. I've transferred the S3QL filesystem from one host to another.
> Something gone wrong during the transfer and the filesystem on the target
> host is not mount-able or fsck-able at this moment. I don't have access to
> the source host, so please help me recover my data from transferred
> filesystem on the target host.

How *exactly* did you do the transfer? What exactly do you mean with
"not mount-able or fsck-able"? What was the exact error message?

> I've tried to recover the filesystem by hands (by restoring backup files
> which was made by S3QL (e.g. move s3ql_metadata_bak_1 to
> s3ql_metadata))

This sounds like a bad idea. The more you did manually, the smaller the
probability of me understanding what went wrong and being able to fix
it.


> can you please provide instruction how to correctly preform such
> restoration?
>
> Additional information: the filesystem was made by S3QL version 2.15. As a
> back-end storage I've used a mounted windows share (with "local:///"
> prefix). The filesystem was encrypted.

Copying all the files should be sufficient. The local backend doesn't
use extended attributes or any other fancy features.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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