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 <t...@night-shade.org.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
