[OpenAFS] mangled volume dump

[John S. Bucy]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:44:35PM -0500, John S. Bucy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:09:50PM -0500, John S. Bucy wrote:
> > 
> > I have a large (~10G) volume dump taken from a server with a failing disk.
> > 
> > When I try to restore it, I get
> > 
> > Restoring volume user.roboclub.folders Id 536889153 on server ALUMINUM.CLUB.CC.cmu.edu partition /vicepa ..rx_EndCall Failed
> > VOLSER:  Problems encountered in reading the dump file !
> > Error in vos restore command.
> > VOLSER:  Problems encountered in reading the dump file !
> > 
> > 
> > (and I got a similar error when it finished dumping)
> > 
> > Will dumptool help me here?  Any other ideas?
> 
> The volume seems to have restored anyway though I'm not yet sure how
> corrupted it may be.  What does this error mean?

In VolserLog, I have 

Mon Jan 17 15:44:08 2005 1 Volser: WriteFile: Error reading dump file 119806 size=11743 nbytes=11743 (7280 of 8192); restore aborted
Mon Jan 17 15:44:08 2005 1 Volser: ReadVnodes: IDEC inode 119806

after a lot of whining about the transaction taking a long time.



john