I had a disk fail a few days ago, after a power outage here. Various spots in the fossil partition generate IO errors. The Venti arenas seem intact. I've bought a new (and larger) drive, and have done a basic Plan 9 install onto that, and moved the old disk from sdC0 to sdD0. I'd like to recover the data from my old venti. It looks like the process looks like this:
1) Boot off new disk. 2) Recover last score from old fossil w/ fossil/last (this works). 3) Start a venti running off old disk (will require editing venti/conf?) 4) venti/copy old-venti new-venti score-from-setp-2 5) Reboot off some other medium. 6) Reformat new fossil from new venti using score from step 2. 7) Reboot off new fossil+venti. Does that sound like an accurate script? Can anyone who's done this confirm? By chance an easier way? Anthony
