On Thursday 25 January 2007 14:33, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
>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

I think my first question might be what version of tar are you using?

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