Of course, the unanswered interesting question is why did this small number of 37 files out of about 3.5M pool files fail to migrate properly from v3 to v4...
Note: I ran as many checks before and after as possible on the pool and pc heirarchy integrity (using my old v3 routines I had written) as well as checked error messages from the migration itself. I also of course had the BackupPC service off... "" wrote at about 21:41:27 -0400 on Tuesday, June 9, 2020: > I found some of the missing v4 pool files (mentioned in an earlier > post) in a full-disk backup of my old v3 setup. > > I would like to add them back to the v4 pool to eliminate the missing > pool file messages and thus fix my backups. > > I can think of several ways: > > - Method A. > 1. Create a script to first BackupPC_zcat each recovered old v3 pool > file into a new file named by its uncompressed md5sum and then move > it appropriately into the v4 cpool 2-layer directory heirarchy. > > 2. Run BackupPC_nightly assuming that it will clean up the cpool ref > counts to coincide with the now correct pc-branch ref count > > - Method B > 1. BackupPC_zcat the recovered files from the v3 pool into a new > directory. Naming of the files is immaterial. > 2. Create a new temporary host and use that to backup the folder > 3. *Manually* delete the host by deleting the entire host folder > 4. Run BackupPC_nightly to correct the ref counts (assuming needed) > > - Method C > 1. Use some native code or routines that Craig may already have > written that do most or all of the above > > Any thoughts on which of these work and which way is preferable? > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ 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/
