On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 19:57 +0000, John Rouillard wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:10:30PM +0200, Frank Wolkwitz wrote:
> > After raid controller failure the pool file system is running in read 
> > only mode.
> > Making a file system check would take several days (ext3 fs, 13TB of 16 
> > TB used) and success is not garanteed.
> > 
> > So the question is: Is it possible to run backuppc in a read only 
> > environment, not to make backups, but to restore files?
> 
> Well maybe but why would you. If the filesystem is inconsistent, how
> do you know that the file you are restoring points to the proper data?

That's where checksums come in

> Have you tried running BackupPC_tarCreate without the daemon
> running to see if you can extract data?

I'm pretty sure you can use BackupPC_tarCreate / BackupPC_zipCreate and
BackupPC_zcat without the services running.

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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