Re: [9fans] copying a venti
Also, I have since discoverd the venti/copy command which looks to be exactly what I should be using, but how do I generate a score to copy the whole venti tree? There's no such thing as the whole venti tree. A venti store may have lots of trees representing different fossil partitions, vac(1) archives, etc. You would have to find every root block (or every one you care about preserving) and venti/copy it. If your venti store holds nothing but the archives from one fossil partition, then in theory a venti/copy of the most recent archive score will transfer the entire dump history. But from my experience of corrupted fossil archives I would want to do some very careful checking to make sure nothing was lost.
[9fans] copying a venti
I am trying to copy my venti from an old server to a new one, currently I am using somthing along the lines of: venti/rdarenas /tmp/arena; venti/wrarenas /tmp/arena Which is progressing, admittedly very slowly. I had this problem before and Russ suggested that perhaps my bloom filter was non operational. Is there anything more to setting up a bloom filter on a venti beyond adding a bloom /dev/sdC0/bloom to the venti config and formatting the partion with venti/fmtbloom before starting venti for the first time? Also, I have since discoverd the venti/copy command which looks to be exactly what I should be using, but how do I generate a score to copy the whole venti tree? Thanks, -Steve