On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 07:48 +0000, kingswindsor wrote: > Yes, I'd expect v3 pools to go stay the same or down if anything but they are > increasing in size. And the pool files (either v3 or v4) should not grow > anyway- all active hosts are set for compression. > > The documentation has these bits which are relevant > > "V3 migration: nothing specific is needed. V4 can browse/view/restore V3 > backups. > > "When a V4 backup is first done, BackupPC_backupDuplicate is run to duplicate > the most recent V3 backup to create a new V4 backup. A "filled" view of the > most recent V3 backup is used to create a "filled" V4 backup tree. > This step could be time consuming, since every file needs to be read (as a V3 > file) and written as a V4 file. However, the V4 pooling code knows about the > V3 pool, so it will move the V3 pool file into the V4 pool. So this > duplication process doesn't burn a lot of pool storage space, but every file > still needs to be read (to compute the MD5 digest) and "written" (really just > matching/linking)." > On 7 Jan 2021, at 06:25, Sorin Srbu <sorin.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 22:34 +0000, George King wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Sorry if I'm missing something obvious but would anyone have any ideas > > > why my V3 pool is growing (hugely) after upgrading to v4.4.0. It doesn't > > > make sense to me. Over 3 days it has grown from 219Gb to 383Gb and there > > > is only one client that is not compressed (localhost) which has not > > > backed up since the upgrade (subject of a different post). The V3 cPool > > > has also grown (16-28Tb, although the graph doesn't seem to show this) > > > while the V4 cPool is static at 8.84Tb. Thanks > > > > I'm speculating a bit now, and trying to remember half-forgotten facts... > > Isn't this expected when changing from v3 to v4, since two pools are active? > > > > Eventually the v3 pool will be emptied and everything will be moved over to > > the v4 pool. > > > > IIRC, there should be a tool to convert the v3 pool to v4 and speed things > > up.
Did the BackupPC_backupDuplicate run finish? I'm thinking it's not done yet, so backups are still added to the v3 pool maybe? -- Kind regards, Sorin Srbu Find my OpenPGP public key here: https://cloud.srbu.se/index.php/s/KeEsCCDsG7PZG7N
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