Re: [Lustre-discuss] problems restoring from MDT backup (test file system)

2010-03-05 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-03-04, at 05:46, Frederik Ferner wrote: Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:21 +, Frederik Ferner wrote: tar tizf test_MDT_Backup.tar.gz ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/ ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/iozone.DUMMY.47 tar: Unexpected EOF in archive

[Lustre-discuss] problems restoring from MDT backup (test file system)

2010-03-04 Thread Frederik Ferner
Hi List, on my test file system I'm currently trying to verify once more that I can restore the MDT from my backups but I'm running into some problems. The MDS is running RHEL5.3 and Lustre 1.6.7.2. I use the following procedure to backup the MDT: create LVM snapshot from MDT device mount LVM

Re: [Lustre-discuss] problems restoring from MDT backup (test file system)

2010-03-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:21 +, Frederik Ferner wrote: tar tizf test_MDT_Backup.tar.gz ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/ ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/iozone.DUMMY.47 tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now /snip Looks to me like

Re: [Lustre-discuss] problems restoring from MDT backup (test file system)

2010-03-04 Thread Frederik Ferner
Brian, thanks for your reply. Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:21 +, Frederik Ferner wrote: tar tizf test_MDT_Backup.tar.gz ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/ ./ROOT/tmp/frederik/cs04r-sc-com02-04/iozone.DUMMY.47 tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is