Re: need to recover large file

2015-12-17 Thread Langhorst, Brad
I have updated the btrfs tools. The error with find roots was fixed. I think i’m making some progress… sudo ./btrfs restore -v -o -t 25606820544512 --path-regex ^/\(\|deer\(\|/masurca\(\|/quorum_mer_db.jf\)\)\)$ /dev/sdd1 ~/recover/ parent transid verify failed on 25606820544512 wanted 21614

Re: need to recover large file

2015-12-16 Thread Duncan
Langhorst, Brad posted on Wed, 16 Dec 2015 03:13:48 + as excerpted: > Hi: > > I just screwed up
 spent the last 3 weeks generting a 400G file > (genome assembly) . > Went to back it up and swapped the arguments to tar (tar Jcf my_precious > my_precious.tar.xz) > what was once 400G is now

need to recover large file

2015-12-15 Thread Langhorst, Brad
Hi: I just screwed up… spent the last 3 weeks generting a 400G file (genome assembly) . Went to back it up and swapped the arguments to tar (tar Jcf my_precious my_precious.tar.xz) what was once 400G is now 108 bytes of xz header - argh. This is on a 6-volume btrfs filesystem. I

Re: need to recover large file

2015-12-15 Thread Michael Darling
... Didn't read all of your original post originally, because I haven't been into those internals. Now that I have, I see it seems to be using 6 devices, so you might have to use 1 hard drive 6*size of partition (others can say if this will work), or 6 other hard drives to make the backups.