Re: xfsrestore not restoring

[Mike Burger <mburger@bubbanfriends.org>]

What was the actual xfsrestore command line that you used?

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Juergen Hasch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I try to restore a backup from DAT tape but xfsrestore won't let me
> get my files back.
> I know the backup set is working because it is the one I used to
> report an assertion failure some time ago.
> All I get now are empty directories, but no files at all. Looking
> at the output of the "-v trace" option or strace gives no error
> messages.
> I am running Suse 7.3 and Kernel 2.4.17-XFS from CVS (date January 13.)
> The destination at /mnt is in XFS format.
> Any hints for me where to start looking ?
> 
> This is the output of xfsrestore:
> 
> tower:/mnt # xfsrestore -f /dev/st0 /mnt
> xfsrestore: using scsi tape (drive_scsitape) strategy
> xfsrestore: version 3.0 - Running single-threaded
> xfsrestore: searching media for dump
> xfsrestore: preparing drive
> xfsrestore: tape drive /dev/st0 is not ready (0x10000): retrying ...
> xfsrestore: examining media file 0
> 
>  =========================== dump selection dialog ============================
> 
> the following dump has been found on drive 0
> 
> hostname: tower
> mount point: /local
> volume: /dev/lfw_a/local
> session time: Sat Dec  1 20:58:18 2001
> level: 0
> session label: "Backup Windows"
> media label: "DAT2"
> file system id: cf935d4d-f79c-4ed1-8527-76f9e9d25d19
> session id: 568e4825-bdba-48eb-8c10-fefc8faf2d8f
> media id: afcf7ecc-23dd-45ea-af65-578ca530739d
> 
> restore this dump?
> 1: skip
> 2: restore (default)
>  -> 2
> this dump selected for restoral
> 
>  --------------------------------- end dialog ---------------------------------
> 
> xfsrestore: using online session inventory
> xfsrestore: searching media for directory dump
> xfsrestore: reading directories
> xfsrestore: 4141 directories and 55768 entries processed
> xfsrestore: directory post-processing
> xfsrestore: restore complete: 19 seconds elapsed
> xfsrestore: Restore Status: SUCCESS
> 
> 
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