Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: incremental dump directory selection

[Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Bill Kendall wrote:
> > When doing incremental backups, xfsdump does a recursive scan through
> > the filesystems to determine the proper set of unchanged directories
> > to include in the dump in order to make the dump self-contained
> > (allowing files to be restored from this dump without applying the
> > base dumps first).
> >
> > For high-inode count filesystems, the recursive scan may consume a
> > significant portion of the backup time. This patch adds a -D option
> > which causes xfsdump to skip the recursive scan. Unchanged directories
> > will not be dumped, so the base dump(s) will have to be loaded prior
> > to restoring files from the dump. When restoring files from such a
> > dump, a message is issued to alert the user that files may end up in
> > the orphanage if the base dump(s) has not been applied.
> Any chance you could submit some xfstests coverage for this feature?
Sure, will do.

Bill