Hi Joy -
Hm, I have never seen file versions from "a few days back" - usually on
a lock-up, you only have problems with files written in the last ~30
seconds - and then, you don't get the old version back, anyway.
1.0 is pretty ancient these days, if you're going to continue using the
machine I would strongly recommend upgrading to XFS release 1.0.2.
There is probably no way to recover data that you have lost through a
crash, it looks in your case like it never even hit the disk. Are you
_certain_ that the newer versions were ever really there on this
machine?
-Eric
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 13:29, Joy Almacen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just inherited an XFS-enabled system (RH7.1 Linux version
> 2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0smp). A few days ago the server locked up and we had to do
> a hard reboot. Everything rebooted just fine except for some weird
> things about
> some files. They reverted back to old versions ( a few days back). I do
> not know if this has something to do with disk allocation and writing
> (caching?).
>
> My question is how can I check what has caused this weird reversion to
> the old versions of our production scripts? Also, is there a way to
> recover data, backup was not enabled on prior to system crash, thru xfs
> utilties?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Joy
>
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