From: Eric J. <eje...@sw...> - 2006-04-24 18:50:22
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Tony Nelson <ton...@ge...> wrote: >> Try restoring your backup (not just verifying it), and run getfattr >> on both the original and the extracted file. What is the result ? > I'm sorry, but I'm not going to wipe my FC3 volume to do this. Given > that I'm not entirely sure that the dump is good, wiping out the > original would be imprudent. Just a quick note here - it's quite easy to restore only one or two files from a dump, in a location of your choice, so that you could compare them in this way. Just cd to a temp directory you've created, then run 'restore -i -f /dev/tape ' (or whatever your device is) on your tape - you can interactively flag a file or two to be restored, and then when you've done that, tell it to extract, and it will create only those files, in a subdirectory of your current directory. (It will also create the tree it needs to restore them, e.g. if you're in /home/foo/, and you restore a file 'myfile' that was dumped from /data/dir1/dir2/, you'll end up with /home/foo/data/dir1/dir2/myfile after the restore.) There's on-line help once you get inside the 'restore -i' "shell". Hope this helps, Eric |