xfs_restore -R -- recovering a previous restore...does it work?

[Linda A. Walsh]

Dmesg shows nothing revealing.

I am not using tape -- I'm restoring from a file.

Does it only work with tapes?  I didn't recall it saying so.

-l

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:21:02AM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> 
>> I just had it happen again -- something killed off the window it was
>> executing in -- system didn't go down, but it got a hangup -- a
>> cleaner shutdown -- but it still doesn't recover.
> 
> dmesg ...
> 
> see anything?
> 
>> Under what circumstances should this work?  Or does it work?
> 
> it used to work for me, i've not tried it recently though, i basically
> gave up tapes (and xfsdump/restore) some time back due to size/cost
> contraints

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Do you not keep backups at all anymore?  Or if you do, do you not 
care about the metastuff?  

Only other backup util, that I know of, that speaks meta, is 'star'.