XFS filesystem recovery from secondary superblocks

[Dave Chinner]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:08:23PM -0800, Aaron Goulding wrote:
> As I guessed, xfs_repair didn't work. xfs_db does now load with warnings,
> but I fear I don't know enough about that to properly use that tool. I've
> done a search for xfs_irepair but I'm finding very little from that. Where
> is that tool located? I'm understanding a full restore is very unlikely at
> this point, but if I can get anything, I'll consider this project a success
> and a learning experience. :)

xfs_irecover:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-12/msg01782.html

current location:

http://inai.de/projects/hxtools/

You might need to hack it to recovery full files (ISTR is ignore
files larger than a certain size), but tools lke this are your best
bet now.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com