[2385] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Damage from tonight's salvage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Jun 30 17:58:09 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>,
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>,
"Dr. Matthew H. Power" <mhpower@MIT.EDU>, Wes Carroll <wes@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:13:10 EDT."
<199606302113.RAA00622@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:57:59 EDT
> > I left service.sendmail alone except for creating
> > service.sendmail.rst, since it had at least one readonly. The people
> > responsible for the volume should either restore the lost files out of
> > the restore files, or send mail to sipb-afsreq with what they want
> > done.
>
> I finally got around to looking at this. Unfortunately, the restore
> seems to have been corrupted. This is rather disturbing, and I'd
> appreciate it if someone could look into it. I guess it's possible
> that the directory was corrupted prior to backup, but this seems unlikely.
Actually it seems kinda likely to me. If there was cache corruption
that was propogated to the server, before the backup, it would make
sense that there is garbage in the backup, and it would make sense
that the salvager cleaned it up. If I get to it, I'll try to do a
restore off of our oldest tape. Whomever does the backup this week,
should make sure the restore has been done first.
Jonathon
