Nikolaus,

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Nikolaus Rath <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Have you tried to simply run fsck.s3ql after s3qladm download-metadata?
>>> This should make fsck.s3ql to use the copy that you manually downloaded 
>>> before.
>>> Just make sure to use the same cache directory.
>>
>> Aha, that does proceed, but it looks like it is deleting nearly every
>> s3ql_data_ block with 'Deleted spurious object nnn', so I interrupted
>> it.  Debug shows a sequence like that below, repeated.  Is this
>> ok/valid?
>
> Everything that you have created after the metadata backup was created
> is expected to be treated as spurious and deleted (since S3QL has no way
> to map it to files). Does that make sense, given the age of the metadata
> backup that you downloaded?
>
>> Is there a way to validate the metadata?
>
> Yes, fsck.s3ql :-).

I went ahead and finished the fsck.s3ql and it found about 700
consecutive spurious blocks, put a number of files in lost+found, but
did recover the filesystem.
Something strange must have happened to get it corrupted this badly.
This symptom is pretty rare from what I have experienced so far,
across a variety of s3ql cloud storage cases.
Thanks for your help.

Andy

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