Fantastic, I will do the tests next week. Honestly I did not expect the change to get through so fast :-)
Craig, thanks a lot for you wonderful work. And thanks Michael for the initial testing! Best regards, Pavel. Dne 14.3.2017 v 02:38 Michael Huntley napsal(a): > Works great, zero problems. Test restores function properly. > > Awesome! > > > > mph > > On 2017-03-12 22:21, Craig Barratt wrote: > >> I pushed bin/BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 to git. It uses the hybrid >> approach I mentioned - V3 backups still use the same forward deltas; >> this script only replaces the hardlinked backups in each directory >> with V4 attrib files (and MD5 digests). >> >> Usage: >> >> >> BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 [-p] [-v] [-h host [-n V3backupNum]] >> >> >> So to convert a specific backup and host, use both -h ClientName and >> -n BkupNum. If you don't specify -n, then all that host's V3 backups >> will be converted. >> >> Warning: with no arguments, it will try to convert every v3 backup >> (maybe I should change that). >> >> There are some related changes in several other places, including >> lib/BackupPC/View.pm, that make the V3 hybrid storage work correctly >> with the rest of BackupPC. So you'll need to pull all the new code >> from git to test. >> >> If you want to test this, I'd recommend testing it on a single or >> series of V3 backups. You can safely copy the backup trees using cp >> -prl (which maintains the hardlinks), eg: >> >> >> cd /data/BackupPC/pc/exampleHost >> >> mv 5 5.orig ; cp -prl 5.orig 5 >> mv 6 6.orig ; cp -prl 6.orig 6 >> mv 7 7.orig ; cp -prl 7.orig 7 >> cp backups backups.save >> >> >> >> If you want to put things back the way they were: >> >> rm -rf 5 ; mv 5.orig 5 >> rm -rf 6 ; mv 5.orig 6 >> rm -rf 7 ; mv 5.orig 7 >> # copy the [567] lines from backups.save into backups; >> # only do "mv backups.save backups" if you are sure no >> # new backups have been done >> >> >> Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/