My plan is just to dump the final backup from v3 to tarballs, and overlap starting with v4 on my FreeNAS box, since that is now a plugin on 11.2...Just make a clean break of it.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 7:25 PM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote: > That would be great but I had seen some email traffic suggesting that > there was no solution. > I will try it! > > Michael Stowe wrote at about 21:12:28 +0000 on Wednesday, February 13, > 2019: > > On 2019-02-13 05:57, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > > > > Looking to finally move to V4. > > > > Would love to eat my cake-and-have-it-too by eliminating all those > > nasty linked pool files while preserving all my old V3 backups. > > > > In the past I have done quite a bit of utility hacking into the V3 > > pool and tree structures so I am aware of the complexities at least > > in V3 but I have no experience or knowledge of how trees and > > metadata are stored in V4. > > > > Has anyone written a clean migration utility that copies all > backups > > over (not just the latest)? > > > > In a sense I have written half of it in the past in my > > BackupPC_copyPcPool.pl.jjk that allows one to copy over BackupPC V3 > > archives by creating a text file download of the backup trees and > > then a simple copy of the pool. > > > > But I am not sure I have the time to write a new utility that would > > dump this back into V4 format while converting the pool structure > to > > md5sum titling and organization. > > > > Would you not just use this? > > > > usage: BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 -a [-m] [-p] [-v] > > BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 -h host [-n V3backupNum] [-m] [-p] [-v] > > Options: > > -a migrate all hosts and all backups > > -h host migrate just a specific host > > -n V3backupNum migrate specific host backup; does all V3 backups > > for that host if not specified > > -m don't migrate anything; just print what would be > > > > done > > -p don't print progress information > > -v verbose > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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