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Taking and Restoring Backups Fail on XFS Disks with Extended File Attributes

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Issue

Incremental Backups

Rsync fails while taking and restoring an incremental backup on an XFS disk under the following conditions:

  • The /onapp/backups directory is shared via NFS.
  • There are extended attributes associated with the files and directories on the XFS disk.

Normal Backups

Tar fails while restoring a normal backup on an XFS disk under the following conditions:

  • The /onapp/backups directory is shared via NFS.
  • There are extended attributes associated with files and directories on the XFS disk.

 

Environment

OnApp 6.0

 

Resolution

Incremental Backups

To resolve the issue for incremental backups, follow the next procedure:

  1. Go to your Control Panel > Settings > Configuration.
  2. Click the Backups/Templates tab.
  3. Disable Store extended attributes and Store ACLs under Rsync options.
  4. Click the Save Configuration button.

After saving configuration, the Control Panel server restarts OnApp services.

Normal Backups

To resolve the issue for normal backups, follow the next procedure:

  1. Access the info_hub.yml file.
  2. Locate the following section in the the info_hub.yml file:
     
    ssh_recipe:
     tar_options:
      - '--xattrs'
       - '--xattrs-include=*'
  3. Delete the following lines from the section:
     
    - '--xattrs'
     - '--xattrs-include=*'
  4. Restart OnApp services, using the following command:  
    # service onapp restart

As a result, the extended attributes will not be stored on XFS disks with NFS shares while taking and restoring incremental and normal backups.

 

Additional Information

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