Nothing is showing as running under Status. How would I kick-start it to try again and could it have a negative effect? Thanks George
On 7 Jan 2021, 08:42, at 08:42, Sorin Srbu <sorin.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >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 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >BackupPC-users mailing list >BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki >Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
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