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BTRFS restoring a corrupt filesystem from another “tree location”

From: http://ram.kossboss.com/btrfs-restoring-a-corrupt-filesystem-from-another-tree-location/

Here is how you restore a really corrupt btrfs filesystem using btrfs restore.

PRE STEPS (realizing the filesystem is really corrupt by trying simple mounts and 
restores):

* assume your volume name is /dev/md127 and that you have an available /root folder 
to dump temp data to and that you will be dumping your restore to /USB
* you can change any of those variable if thats not the case

Here we assume the filesystem is so corrupt that its not mounting regulary:

# mount /dev/md127 /data
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/md127,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

btrfs file system

From: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices

    1 Multiple devices
        1.1 Current status
        1.2 Raid 5 and Raid6
        1.3 Filesystem creation
        1.4 Device scanning
        1.5 Adding new devices
            1.5.1 Conversion
        1.6 Removing devices
        1.7 Replacing failed devices
        1.8 Registration in /etc/fstab

From: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/btrfs-integrated_volume_management.html

Same info as above

btrfsck

From: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfsck

 Before trying fsck

If you have a broken filesystem, you should probably look at the recovery or repair tools or you can read Marc MERLIN's page that explains the different ways to check and fix a btrfs filesystem.

In a nutshell, you should look at:

    btrfs scrub to detect issues on live filesystems
    look at btrfs detected errors in syslog (look at Marc's blog above on how to use sec.pl to do this)
    mount -o ro,recovery to mount a filesystem with issues
    btrfs-zero-log might help in specific cases. Go read Btrfs-zero-log
    btrfs restore will help you copy data off a broken btrfs filesystem. See its page: Restore
    btrfs check --repair, aka btrfsck is your last option if the ones above have not worked. 
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