Hi Xin, thanks. I did not enable autosnap, and I'm pretty sure Debian didn't do it for me either, as I would have seen the subvolumes created by it at some stage. Good to know about this feature though, will definitely use it next time around. Cheers, Markus On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Xin Zhou <xin.zhou@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Markus, > > Some file system automatically generates snapshot, and create a hidden > folder for recovery, > if the user accidently deletes some files. > > It seems btrfs also has a autosnap feature, > so if this option has been enabled before deletion, > or the volume has been mannually generated snapshots, then probably it might > be able to perform fast recover. > > Regards, > Xin > > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 4:12 PM > From: "Markus Binsteiner" <makkus@xxxxxxxxx> > To: linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: btrfs-find-root duration? > It seems I've accidentally deleted all files in my home directory, > which sits in its own btrfs partition (lvm on luks). Now I'm trying to > find the roots to be able to use btrfs restore later on. > > btrfs-find-root seems to be taking ages though. I've run it like so: > > btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/think--big-home -o 5 > roots.txt > > After 16 hours, there is still no output, but it's still running > utilizing 100% of one core. Is there any way to gauge how much longer > it'll take? Should there have been output already while it's running? > > When I run it without redirecting stdout, I get: > > $ btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/think--big-home -o 5 > > Superblock doesn't contain generation info for root 5 > Superblock doesn't contain the level info for root 5 > > When I omit the '-o 5', it says: > > $ btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/think--big-home > > Superblock thinks the generation is 593818 > Superblock thinks the level is 0 > > Is the latter the way to run it? Did that initially, but that didn't > return any results in a reasonable timeframe either. > > The filesystem was created with Debian Jessie, but I'm using Ubuntu ( > btrfs-progs v4.7.3 ) to try to restore the files at the moment. > > Thanks! > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
