Andrew <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> After upgrading from 2.9 to 2.11.1 I got this notification:
>
> "It is strongly recommended to run the s3ql_verify command with the
> --data option as soon as possible. This is necessary to ensure that the
> upgrade to the next (2.11) S3QL release will run smoothly."
>
> Now there are two problems with this:
>
> * First of all, I already upgraded to 2.11, even 2.11.1 actually, so the
> notification seems at least confusing
Yeah, I had to release an intermediate version to address an important
security issue. So this should read "one of the next" rather than "the
next".
> * Second of all, and most importantly, can you please clarify, do I
> really need to (still) run this command?
Did you create the file system with S3QL pre-2.10? Then yes, I recommend
it.
> I'm asking because it seems to
> me it would need to download my entire backup which would cost me a
> non-negligible amount of money (I'm using the Google Cloud backend)
Yes, it will download all the data. You can also try to upgrade to the
next version as-is, but if (for some reason) any data is not available
on the backend, you'll be stuck in-between versions, which is hard to
fix. Running s3ql_verify first avoids this problem.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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