xfsrestore restoring MANY more files/dirs than expected, why?

Michael Lueck mlueck at lueckdatasystems.com
Tue Oct 27 10:03:56 CDT 2009


Greetings-

I recall last time I needed to restore A FILE from a XFS backup, MANY MORE files/dirs got restored than expected. This time the same thing is happening.

Screen dump of what I did:

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:/mnt/ext_backup/cirlnx01/20090510$ sudo xfsrestore -J -E -f /mnt/ext_backup/cirlnx01/20090510/data -s shares/data -i -v verbose /srv
[sudo] password for mdlueck:
xfsrestore: using file dump (drive_simple) strategy
xfsrestore: version 2.2.48 (dump format 3.0) - Running single-threaded
xfsrestore: searching media for dump
xfsrestore: examining media file 0
xfsrestore: dump description:
xfsrestore: hostname: cirlnx01
xfsrestore: mount point: /srv
xfsrestore: volume: /dev/sda9
xfsrestore: session time: Sun May 10 18:07:35 2009
xfsrestore: level: 0
xfsrestore: session label: "data"
xfsrestore: media label: ""
xfsrestore: file system id: a43ad1fc-d88f-4d07-9f79-febffb48b9cb
xfsrestore: session id: 13077fc1-21a4-4c14-8d95-cce194ef4f46
xfsrestore: media id: c6a9ecb1-e776-4bf9-9537-bf1d61df5ac3
xfsrestore: searching media for directory dump
xfsrestore: reading directories
xfsrestore: 7699 directories and 136729 entries processed
xfsrestore: directory post-processing

  ========================== subtree selection dialog ==========================

the following commands are available:
	pwd
	ls [ <path> ]
	cd [ <path> ]
	add [ <path> ]
	delete [ <path> ]
	extract
	quit
	help

  -> ls
        472894529 kernel
        939819197 orexx
        805598566 3ware
     *   67108992 shares/
              131 samba

  -> cd shares

  -> ls
        208673909 print
        271069020 mdldist
        402653312 stage
        335544448 pdoxdata
        268435584 netlogon
     *  201326720 data/
        134217856 apps

  -> cd data

  -> ls
     *  738334798 RoadRunner/
     *    6595075 .Trash-lobonca/
     *  671534768 OldAbel/
     *  337771329 AppData/
     *   67679396 P/
     *  604312789 AdamDesktop/
     *  338912225 OldAdam2K/
     *  609390639 OldAdam/
     *  471772160 ME/
     *  554166854 Icons/
     *  201326742 W2KBoot-Build58.ISO
     *  471986055 x-4Obie/
     *  479802373 x-4Michael/
     *  202289900 emobilereg.txt
     *  201333984 Fla-to-Canada.txt
     *  810634869 OldLazarus/
     *  898326271 Reload/
     *  336461836 Proj/
     *  206164605 Photos/
     *  135586077 Music/
     *  471452033 Download/

  -> cd OldAbel

  -> ls
     *  748264372 c/

  -> cd c

  -> ls
     *  810634921 Documents and Settings/

  -> cd "Documents and Settings"

  -> ls
     *  898287525 iserve/

  -> cd iserve

  -> ls
     *  898339263 Thunderbird.zip
     *  898339261 Firefox.zip
     *  898339260 Mozilla.cmd
     *  898339257 Thunderbird.cmd
     *  898339256 Firefox.cmd

  -> add Thunderbird.zip

  -> extract

  --------------------------------- end dialog ---------------------------------

xfsrestore: restoring non-directory files
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I am seeing the ENTIRE "data" backup restored, not just the one file I specified to add.

Why is this? What am I doing incorrectly?

Sincerely,

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/




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