Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:07:06 -0300 (ADT) From: Andrew Hamilton-Wright <AHamiltonWright@MtA.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with dump and restore Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408121255230.1074@qemg.org>
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I was attempting to restore my /usr partition today, and have encountered
some rather terrifying issues using restore.
Some background ...
I have used dump/restore for several years, very happily, to maintain
backups on my machine.
I have a level 0 dump of each file system, and then a cron-based script
that does higher level dumps on a regular basis. I therefore have dumps
at the following levels for this filesystem at the moment: 0, 2, 3, 5
These were created using snapshots, so the level 0 was created via
dump 0uLCf 32 - /usr
and higher level dumps were created similarly.
My uname info is:
FreeBSD qemg.org 10.0-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Tue Jul 8 06:37:44 UTC 2014 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
I wanted to restore the /usr partition to the state it was in at the last
(level 5) backup. My expected steps to achieve this are:
o go to single user (I did this through a full reboot)
o create a replacement filesystem on the drive:
newfs -O 2 -U -a 4 -b 32768 -d 32768 -e 4096 -f 4096 \
-g 16384 -h 64 -i 8192 -k 0 -m 8 -o time \
-s 415236096 /dev/ada0e
o mount the drive as /usr, and change directory to the mount point
o restore the level 0 dump
restore ruf /backup/dumps/current/usr.dump
* this is the first sign of trouble, as restore output the warning
expected next file 19266003, got 19100935
o restore the level 2 dump
restore ruf /backup/dumps/current/l1d0/l2d0/usr.dump
* this failed, indicating that the restore was corrupt (unfortunately
I do not have the full text of the errors received, but a complaint
that an entry was "not a leaf" was in the first message)
Frankly, this terrifies me. If dump and restore cannot be trusted
as a robust backup solution, I don't know where to turn to.
Some questions then:
- is anyone else using dump/restore as their main backup method?
Are you using snapshots? If so, have you seen anything like this
when running restore?
- is there any means of validating the dump file, other than the -N
option (which returns no warnings on any of these files)?
- does anyone have any advice that may help determine what may have
gone wrong?
Thanks,
Andrew.
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