Thanks for that, Christian. I'm in no rush, but I will be tracking that
bug. :)

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 2:04 AM Christian Uhlmann <christ...@uhlmann.it>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just for your Information regarding backuppc plugin for freenas: at this
> moment the plugin is not working -
> https://github.com/freenas/iocage-ix-plugins/pull/65
>
> Regards Christian
>
> Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do. 14. Feb. 2019 um 04:33:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
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