Help with XFS

[Thomas Førde]

both the xfs_check and xfs_Reapir was done from a unmounted system, the 
system has not been mounted or used since.

its a IBM x3650 with stadnard 2x73GB disk.

[root at strmng04 ~]# cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 4.7 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

[root at strmng04 ~]# uname -a
Linux strmng04 2.6.9-78.0.5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Oct 8 07:06:30 EDT 2008 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


there is no backup no, as how to backup 8 TB of data,very expensive tape 
wise.

xfs_irecover ias been mentioned to me, so my fingers are crossed.


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From:   Emmanuel Florac <eflorac at intellique.com>
To:     Thomas Førde <thomas.forde at bergenofs.no>
Cc:     xfs at oss.sgi.com
Date:   18.06.2010 13:21
Subject:        Re: Help with XFS



Le Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:18:26 +0200
Thomas Førde <thomas.forde at bergenofs.no> écrivait:

> i have run xfs_check without any verbos information given
> i have run xfs_repair without any information errors fixed.

That's unfortunate that you didn't post here before doing irreparable 
damage. Any activity to the filesystem may delete permanently data, so
you should stop using it completely until done with the rescue
operations and unmount it.

> 
> when i try to mount the XFS filesystem of 10TB, my 7.8 TB of data is
> now gone.
> 
> before:         /dev/sdf1            10527858560 8801101708
> 1726756852 84% /D5
> after:          /dev/sdf1            10527858560       528
> 10527858032 1% /D5
> 

Some old versions of xfs_repair may fail on big FS. You didn't mention
which version you're using, which distribution and which kernel. The
hardware setup may be important, too.

> help, where did my data go, and how can i get it back.

Apparently xfs_repair deleted it because it was corrupt (alas, happen
sometimes with xfs_repair before 2.8). The best thing to do is to get it
back from backups. I suppose that you have no backup (people don't do
any backup until they lose important data, which always occurs).

If you have no backups, your last hope is to use a tool like photorec
to find your data on the raw device; however it won't reconstruct the
metadata (no names, no folders, no hierarchy, no user rights). BTW you
need some other place to store the newly discovered files with at least
as much space (7.8 TB).

My condolences. I once lost 13TB and see, I'm not dead. You'll get over
it somehow.
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