Restore won't fit into the filesystem

[Brian Myners]

Help! I've had to recreate a VXFS filesystem on a 10.01 server (4GB). Due to the circumstances I've had to restore the FS from tape (OBII). However, even though the FS was previously 4GB (max size under 10.01), and was 100% full, and is now 4GB, the restore will not complete - it runs out of space.

Can anyone advise what I need to do to the FS to make the restore fit?

[Ian Dennison_1]

Sounds like you need to utilise the 'restore as' option in OmniBack, perhaps to a separate mount point? Or else extend the file system? 100% is not a good sign.

Cheers, Ian Dennison

[Brian Myners]

Thanks but the FS is as big as it can get.

BTW
The FS is "allowed" to get this full as it is archive data.
The Client will not allow an upgrade or even a patch.

Its a puzzel -- what came off cannot go back on!

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Andrew,

you can try to define a new filesystem with the maximum size, create a new mount point and use the "restore to"- option of Omniback. If this doesn't help, do a restore of the file system and use the "excluding"- option for restoring the data. You simply exclude a small part of the data, do the restore and after that you make the restore of the missing files/directories.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

[Ian Dennison_1]

What you might find is that the restore includes some older files that are no longer resident in the file system, and the current file system may have files that are not included in the backup.

Advice, if you can, de-select the oldest archive files from the restore and remove them from the filesystem as well. As you have them on backup, they can be recovered if they are needed.

If it turns out they are all needed, then you need more disk space.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Mark van Hassel]

Did you re-create the FS with a different block size than the original FS ?

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,

how about creating a new file system for one of the (large) subdirectories??
In that way the restore will be spread on two filesystems.

good luck,
Thierry.

[Krishna Prasad · Accepted solution]

It sounds like you might have some kind of block size problem with the filesystem. Do you know what the block size was on the old filesystem? Also, is it the same filesytem type.


One more possible work-around. Do you have any free space on any other filesystem? If you do you can perhaps create a soft-link of a directory to the filesystem that has some space? I would pick one that isn't to big but big enough to give you enough of a cushion to get past the restore. I don't know if you need the recovered system for a long period of time and perhaps the soft link is not the long term solution, but if you can't get the restore to work with the correct filesystem/block size and you don't have any more free extents in the volume group ---this may be all you can do.

Except buy a new or bigger disk

[Brian Myners]

Thanks for all the replies...block size may have been the answer, but the one I opted for as the sym link...

Thanks for all the help.

Cheers