We had yet another disk fail on our 1TB primary array of the XServe
RAID on Thursday evening (20 minutes before the scheduled incremental
backup, of course). The Xserve would no longer recognize the volume,
so we were forced to destroy and recreate the volume from tape
backups. It finally finished this morning, but there is a large
discrepancy in the size of the filesystem. I was expecting around
700GB of data, we ended up with less than 500GB.
After reviewing the Netbackup logs, I noticed there were a number of
files that it claims already existed. Turns out some of these (not
sure how many yet) were due to case insensitivity. I was unaware
that HFS+ is case-insensitive by default. Is there a way to convert
the filesystem to case-sensitivity? This would allow me to run the
restore again; Netbackup would simply write the files that don't exist.
Thanks,
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Jason Dixon
Manager, IT Services
Raba Technologies
