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A more comprehensive backup inventory? [WAS: re[2]: Hopefully simple xfs

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: A more comprehensive backup inventory? [WAS: re[2]: Hopefully simple xfsrestore question]
From: Greg Freemyer <freemyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:29:00 -0400
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: The NorcrossGroup
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 >>  I am not a dump expert, but take a look at xfsinvutil and xfsdump -I,
 >>  I think the latter is what you want. It has filtering options, and
 >>  you can probably combine them with grep to do what you want.

 >>  Steve

 >>  -- 

 >>  Steve Lord                                      voice: +1-651-683-3511
 >>  Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@xxxxxxx

Thanks for the thought Steve, but I don't see any way to get file-by-file dump 
data out of the xfsdump inventory.  xfsdump seems to be only keeping overall 
session info in the inventory, not a list of which files are backed up by a 
given xfsdump session.

On my server, the inventory files themselves are all less than 10K . I have 
over 40,000 files on the server (all non-critical test data), so I'm pretty 
sure xfs is not storing the kind of inventory I was hoping it was.

I have used OmniBack from HP before, and I pretty sure I could interrogate its 
inventory and it would tell me which tapes had a copy of a specific file.

Question for all:
Getting a list of which backups contain a specific file seems like a common 
need.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Does Amanda or some other backup management software provide this ability?

Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5
Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com


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