I'm not an xfsdump wizard, but let me try to clarify what happened.
Was the problem with xfsdump, or with the live filesystem?
Did the filesystem crash -while- you were running xfsdump?
Are you trying to restore a good backup after a system crash?
I'm not exactly sure what problem you are having.
-Eric
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we had a major crash after data saving on a Redhat Linux machine. We
> need urgently some deeper information about the XFS filesystem.
>
> The log of the datasaving shows:
>
> session 2:
> mount point: server:/daten
> device: server:/dev/md1
> time: Sat Nov 7 23:59:51 2003
> session label: "Backup-daten"
> session id: aa74565f-341f-4967-9267-cb874453fcc0
> level: 0
> resumed: NO
> subtree: NO
> streams: 1
> stream 0:
> pathname: /daten2/Backup/backup-daten
> start: ino 0 offset 0
> end: ino 0 offset 0
> interrupted: YES
> media files: 0
> xfsdump: Dump Status: SUCCESS
>
> The xfsdump was running, but the whole INO table of the harddisk is
> completely gone. We have some detailed questions about the
> filesystem:
>
> How can we find the session ID aa74565f-341f-4967-9267-cb874453fcc0
> on the deleted harddisk?
>
> How is the ID compressed on the disk?
>
> How is the filesystem info at the beginning of the dump compressed?
> (We can find the data, but we can't read the directory data of the
> dump)
>
> Are the INO's of the harddisk saved into the backup, too?
>
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Best regards
>
> Joerg Mayer
> Mayer Electronic GbR
> Münchinger Str. 11
> 70825 Korntal
> Germanymailaddress: mayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> internet address: http://www.mayer-electronic.de
>
>
>
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