On 9/27/16 12:04 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > 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. Right, sorry - if you want to migrate to an encrypted block device, use dump & restore. Sorry, the metadata-restoration scheme confused me. :) -eric > --D > >> >> Thanks in Advance, >> Murali _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
