Hello,
I have got a bunch of corrupted files in various snapshots on my ZFS file
backing store. I was not able to recover them so decided to remove all,
otherwise the continuously make trouble for my incremental backup (rsync, diff
etc. fails).
However, snapshots seem to be read-only:
# z
Back to this topic, since I cannot touch snapshots I thought I could simply
remove the corrupt files after the last snapshot, so the next incremental
backup will notice the difference (i.e. no file) and overwrite the
corrupt-and-removed files with valid ones. This was the plan.
However, while
Actually a regular file (on a RAID1 setup with gmirror and 2 identical disks)
is used as backing store for ZFS. The hardware should be fine as nothing else
seems to be corrupt.
Wonder if a server reset could have caused the issue?
There are 2 things that surely do not work perfectly:
1. St
Thanks anyone for the help, finally I removed corrupt files from the "current
view" of the file system and left the snapshots as they were. This way at least
the incremental backup continues. (It is sad that snapshots are so rigid that
even corruption is permanent. What more interesting is that
