On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:49:11AM -0400, murali krishna wrote: > Hi All, > > Got your email id from Nathan Scott. > > Could you please clarify the reasons behind stating below statement in > xfs_metadump man page. > > > > *xfs_metadump should not be used for any purposes other than for > debugging and reporting filesystem problems* > Man page: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/xfs_metadump.8.html > > I am trying to encrypt my existing xfs drive (/dev/sda2) and would like to > backup metadata using xfs_metadump and restore it back using xfs_mdrestore > after encrypting my drive. In order to retain entire contents of my > realtime partition (/dev/sda1), I need to perform this step. > > Can I use xfs_metadump to backup meta-data of xfs and restore it back > successfully ? > Why xfs_metadump should be specifically used as debugging tool ? Please > clarify ? Uh.... if your goal is to back up data, reformat the storage with a crypto layer, and then restore the data, why not just use xfsdump/xfsrestore? Your data will end up all nicely defragmented, too. --D > > Thanks in Advance, > Murali > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
