Hi Bill, Right now the log file is already over 500 MB and growing. Even after compression I do not think I can mail it as an attachment. Is there any other way that I can send you the log files? GL --- On Mon, 29/8/11, Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
