ZFS: Invalid SEND/RECV stream still
Larry Rosenman
ler at lerctr.org
Fri Oct 25 19:36:33 UTC 2013
On 2013-10-25 14:33, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> In article <c0a42b456769e22f908e689a1de56c82 at webmail.lerctr.org>,
> Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
>
>> Error Message:
>> received 320KB stream in 1 seconds (320KB/sec)
>> receiving incremental stream of vault/var at 2013-10-25 into
>> zroot/backups/TBH/var at 2013-10-25
>> cannot receive incremental stream: invalid backup stream
>
> I've seen this happen in one very specific case: if the receiving
> machine is doing automatic snapshots, and happens to do a snapshot of
> the filesystem being received *while it's being received*. In that
> case, it appears that the filesystem on disk gets subtly corrupted,
> and the only remedy is to destroy it on the receiving machine and
> start all over (making sure to disable automatic snapshots this time).
>
> "zfs receive -F" will rollback snapshots made on the receiving system
> that don't exist on the sending system, but it only does this at the
> beginning of the stream -- it can't prevent further snapshots from
> being taken during reception of an incremental stream which foul up
> the works.
>
> -GAWollman
There are NO automatic snapshots in play here at all :(
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