On Jun 26 2019, Daniel Jagszent <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Christian,
>> [...] During the update files were missing and I decided to copy
>> everything to a local disk before continuing the upgrade process. 
>> [...]
> did you copy the files from an object storage (S3, Google Storage,
> OpenStack Swift)? That does not work. S3QL needs metadata of the
> copied "files" that you probably did not copy over – and even if, the
> Local file backend stores the metadata differently, AFAIK.

That's right.

> You cannot easily copy a S3QL filesystem from one backend type to
> another.

It's pretty easy if you use the right tools :-).

https://github.com/s3ql/s3ql/blob/master/contrib/clone_fs.py


Best,
-Nikolaus

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