Richard Hartmann wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:59, Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
xfsrestore just uses standard posix calls for the most part to
restore the files (seeks, writes, etc...) to a mounted filesystem -
and in many circumstances can restore on a non-xfs mounted filesystem.
It is _NOT_ a low level file system restorer to an unmounted filesystem
like some other restorers.
True, this is why I told it to use /mnt/sda3, not a raw device :)
:), looks like we both misread that.
Should be working then. If you hexdump the start of the dump does it look
reasonable? It should be something like:
molten:/home/donaldd # hexdump -C dump | head
00000000 78 46 53 64 75 6d 70 30 00 00 00 02 02 05 e8 49 |xFSdump0.......I|
00000010 48 85 7c cc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0e 86 21 36 |H.|...........!6|
00000020 86 06 e5 1d 17 32 49 a0 ad ea 5d 1d a2 7c d9 a3 |.....2I...]..|..|
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00000100 6d 6f 6c 74 65 6e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |molten..........|
00000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00000200 73 6f 6d 65 6c 61 62 65 6c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |somelabel.......|
00000210 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
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