On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Bill Kendall wrote: > When doing incremental backups, xfsdump does a recursive scan through > the filesystems to determine the proper set of unchanged directories > to include in the dump in order to make the dump self-contained > (allowing files to be restored from this dump without applying the > base dumps first). > > For high-inode count filesystems, the recursive scan may consume a > significant portion of the backup time. This patch adds a -D option > which causes xfsdump to skip the recursive scan. Unchanged directories > will not be dumped, so the base dump(s) will have to be loaded prior > to restoring files from the dump. When restoring files from such a > dump, a message is issued to alert the user that files may end up in > the orphanage if the base dump(s) has not been applied. Any chance you could submit some xfstests coverage for this feature? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
