Cumulative xfsrestore shows many warnings and files/directories are missing after restoration

[Damien Gombault]

Hi.

Thank you for your answer.
I also open a report on Red Hat Bugzilla : 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1341126
Eric answered me also on Bugzilla, I will continue on it.

Le 31/05/2016 à 15:57, Eric Sandeen a écrit :
> On 5/31/16 5:55 AM, Damien Gombault wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I use xfsdump to backup my systems.
>> Recently I had to use xfsrestore to restore a cumulative level 0 + level 1 dumps.
>>
> ...
>
>> The level 1 restore shows many warnings :
>> xfsrestore: drive 0: examining media file 0
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: searching media for directory dump
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: reading directories
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: 11013 directories and 96122 entries processed
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: directory post-processing
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename dir orphanage/1677721775.4173752252 to dir var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files/Dossier personnel et source de partage/E-Administration/08 Sécurité/08c Gestion des mots de passe - Keepass: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename dir orphanage/1711276202.4274102453 to dir var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files_versions/Dossier personnel et source de partage/E-Administration/02 Mise en oeuvre sOlære: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename dir orphanage/1694499004.2655526171 to dir var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files_versions/Dossier personnel et source de partage/E-Administration/07 Communication: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename dir orphanage/2365644069.2895542759 to dir var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files_versions/Dossier personnel et source de partage/E-Administration/08 Sécurité/08c Gestion des mots de passe - Keepass: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
>> xfsrestore: drive 1: WARNING: unable to rename nondir orphanage/2902474338.2817943331 to var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files/Dossier personnel et source de partage/E-Administration/09 Questionnaires communes solære/Dossiers des collectivités/37003 - Amboise/02-Compte rendu de réunions/Compte rendu réunion 3 mai 2016.odt: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> Restating what I said in the bug you also filed:
>
> In general, it would helpful to provide the error messages after setting LANG=en_US - because your English is far better than my French.  :)
>
> A couple questions:
>
>> Some folders are not restored at the right place.
> What does that mean?  Were they restored to the wrong place, or were they not restored at all?
>
> Also, the "Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type" errors indicate that files could not be moved into a directory hierarchy, presumably because some path component did not exist.
>
> The common portions of those paths which failed are:
>
>> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files/Dossier personnel et source de partage/E-Administration/
> and
>
>> var/www/html/owncloud/data/F1000buv/files_versions/Dossier personnel et source de partage/E-Administration
> Do those paths still exist on the original filesystem?  Is it possible that they were removed while the dump was occurring?
>
> It seems most likely that the filesystem changed significantly during the dump processes, and this is what led to the errors.
>
> -Eric
>

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