Hi,
as I already mentioned I will start from scratch with an empty pool.
I do not really care about storage place here so keep the old backups on
the second disk just inparallel. In case I need to restore I will umount
the current and mount the old one.
So I will keep my old backups for a while.
Works so far...
Thanks anyways!
/Christian
Am 08.06.25 um 15:50 schrieb G.W. Haywood:
Hi there,
Apologies, I wrote this out and then forgot to send it. Late night.
FWIW I agree with with the consensus so far. :)
On Sat, 7 Jun 2025, Christian V?lker wrote:
I have a V4 pool where I had compression disabled for couple of months.
Now I decided (after thinking twice ;)) to enable compression on the
pool.
Is there any chance to move the existing (non compressed) pool into the
cpool?
Or best to just wait another months until the pool-files are getting
outdated?
...
Personally, I think I'd start again.
Here's why: in the documentation at
http://piplus.local.jubileegroup.co.uk/BackupPC_Admin?action=view&type=docs#Overview
there's a section headed "Here is a more detailed discussion" which at
point 5 says
"CompressLevel has toggled on/off between backups. This isn't well
tested and it's very hard to support efficiently. ..."
So I'd probably rename my machines as far as BackupPC is concerned,
and remove the old backups using the Web interface after gaining some
confidence that they weren't needed.
Another option might be to work on one host at a time. For example
(first, stop BackupPC to be on the safe side) delete 'host' from your
config.pl, add the same host with a different IP/ID, then delete all
the files in pc/'host'/ and finally restart BackupPC. I'd hope for
the uncompressed files for 'host' which are no longer needed then to
be removed (eventually depending on config) by the nightly cleanups.
Whatever happens I think if you try any of this then we on the mailing
list would welcome notes on your experiences.
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