From: Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: xfsrestore Does Only Only Partial Restore
To: "Gim Leong Chin" <chingimleong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, 29 August, 2011, 10:11 PM
Gim Leong Chin wrote:
Hi,
This is the very first time I tried doing a xfsrestore
of a back up and I hit some serious trouble.
I had openSUSE 11.1 (kernel 2.6.27) on my Acer
notebook. I did a xfsdump of /home to a WD My Passport
external USB hard drive with XFS on it.
I installed openSUSE 11.4 (kernel 2.6.37), then tried
to do xfsrestore from the WD USB drive. The dump file
is 121 GB.
I tried two times on two different days, but each time
the xfsrestore would stop writing at the exact same point,
49 GB and say success at the end.
I then copied the dump file to one hard drive on my
desk top, and did a dump to another hard drive, to
/tmp/mnt3. I get back identical messages:
...
9>xfsrestore: attempt to read 1008286921 bytes
failed: end of recorded data
xfsdump breaks a file's data into "extents" that are a max
size of 16 MB.
The fact that this is trying to read almost 1 GB here
indicates that
the extend header is corrupt.
...
xfsrestore: content.c:7510:
restore_extent_group: Assertion `ehdr.eh_type == 4' failed.
As Dave said, this also indicates a corrupt extent header.
I'd recommend adding "-v 5" to your xfsrestore command line
and redirecting the
(very verbose) output to a file, and send that compressed
output to me or the
list. It'd be best to do this with more than one of your
dumps so we can see
if there's a pattern to where the corruption occurs.
Bill
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