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Re: XFS Filesystem recovery - urgent!

To: joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XFS Filesystem recovery - urgent!
From: Robert Brockway <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:37:58 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The xfsdump was running, but the whole INO table of the harddisk is

If I had a crash like this I wouldn't trust the filesystem anymore.  I'd
be remaking the filesystem (mkfs.xfs) and recovering from backups.

> Are the INO's of the harddisk saved into the backup, too?

I'm no FS guru and I'm not sure what an INO is - is it some structure
related to inodes?

Anyway, SGI (I understand) official recommends doing backups with xfsdump.
This stores extended attribute info as well as other info associated with
the file.  If you use another tool for the backups (eg, tar) then you
should still get back basic file info.

Rob

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