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Re: Cumulative xfsrestore shows many warnings and files/directories are

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Subject: Re: Cumulative xfsrestore shows many warnings and files/directories are missing after restoration
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 08:57:45 -0500
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On 5/31/16 5:55 AM, Damien Gombault wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I use xfsdump to backup my systems.
> Recently I had to use xfsrestore to restore a cumulative level 0 + level 1 
> dumps.
> 

...

> The level 1 restore shows many warnings :
> xfsrestore: drive 0: examining media file 0
> xfsrestore: drive 1: searching media for directory dump
> xfsrestore: drive 1: reading directories
> xfsrestore: drive 1: 11013 directories and 96122 entries processed
> xfsrestore: drive 1: directory post-processing
> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename dir 
> orphanage/1677721775.4173752252 to dir 
> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files/Dossier personnel et source de 
> partage/E-Administration/08 Sécurité/08c Gestion des mots de passe - Keepass: 
> Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename dir 
> orphanage/1711276202.4274102453 to dir 
> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files_versions/Dossier personnel et 
> source de partage/E-Administration/02 Mise en oeuvre sOlære: Aucun fichier ou 
> dossier de ce type
> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename dir 
> orphanage/1694499004.2655526171 to dir 
> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files_versions/Dossier personnel et 
> source de partage/E-Administration/07 Communication: Aucun fichier ou dossier 
> de ce type
> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename dir 
> orphanage/2365644069.2895542759 to dir 
> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files_versions/Dossier personnel et 
> source de partage/E-Administration/08 Sécurité/08c Gestion des mots de passe 
> - Keepass: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename nondir 
> orphanage/2902474338.2817943331 to 
> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files/Dossier personnel et source de 
> partage/E-Administration/09 Questionnaires communes solære/Dossiers des 
> collectivités/37003 - Amboise/02-Compte rendu de réunions/Compte rendu 
> réunion 3 mai 2016.odt: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

Restating what I said in the bug you also filed:

In general, it would helpful to provide the error messages after setting 
LANG=en_US - because your English is far better than my French.  :)

A couple questions:

> Some folders are not restored at the right place.

What does that mean?  Were they restored to the wrong place, or were they not 
restored at all?

Also, the "Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type" errors indicate that files 
could not be moved into a directory hierarchy, presumably because some path 
component did not exist.

The common portions of those paths which failed are:

> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files/Dossier personnel et source de 
> partage/E-Administration/

and

> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files_versions/Dossier personnel et 
> source de partage/E-Administration

Do those paths still exist on the original filesystem?  Is it possible that 
they were removed while the dump was occurring?

It seems most likely that the filesystem changed significantly during the dump 
processes, and this is what led to the errors.

-Eric

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