On Friday 04 January 2008 05:36:39 Andreas Olsson wrote: > Anyhow, as long as you can get rdiff-backup 1.1.15 to read your old > repository it is very possible to upgrade the repository to the > rdiff-backup's new format. My approach involves reusing the basic idea from > this post. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2007-01/msg00017.html > > Basically you pull each increment out of the old repository and insert them > into the new repository one at a time using --current-time to keep the > original history. I just performed this operation manually on small > repository of mine and it worked like a charm. > > It shouldn't be be too hard to write a scripts which automatize the > process, does some error checking, etc. If there is an interest I guess I > could write some kind of proof of concept in Perl.
Well, here is something at least. http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/RdiffRebuilder Just don't expect it to work perfectly right away :-) -- Andreas Olsson http://www.andreasolsson.se/
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