Hello,

Anyone will have a poke at this?

jf

* Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca> 
[20070122 13:57]:
> Hi,
> 
> Last Friday a user managed to remove her entire home directory :)
> so I started an amrecover session (2.5.1p2, client is the server,
> irix-6.5) using the last full backup of the DLE (backed up with
> xfsdump). This DLE while not that big (~70GB) has a lot of small files
> (the uncompressed index file for the full shows ~1M entries). After a
> few hours waiting for the prompt back from amrecover after doing the
> setdisk I aborted the session, started a screen session and did the
> whole thing again, and left work. Later at night I reattached to my
> screen session and still nothing. Did the same thing Saturday morning
> and finally got a prompt back. But while in amrecover I tried to cd
> into the home of the user I got 'no such directory' or similar.
> Checking the index file I see all her files. And doing a 'ls' at the
> root of the DLE only shows part of the directory structure of the home
> disk. To restore her files I had to use the baremetal restore command
> 'dd if=<> skip=1 bs=32k | xfsrestore -i - .' Makes me a little
> nervous. Any one has any idea what might be the problem?
> 
> regards
> jf

-- 
<° ><