* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> [20070130 01:59]:
> 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?

Hi Gene,

The DLE is backed up with xfsdump (irix-6.5.x)
jf

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