Brilliant Henry, thanks so much. I'll confirm success to the group once I try out the instructions.
On Wednesday, 30 August 2023 at 3:44:39 pm UTC+10 Henry Wertz wrote: > On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:37:53 AM UTC-5 Henry Wertz wrote: > > > So, do that patch, run fsck, let it correct some error and it'll do a full > database upload. Then you can either mount it and use it for at least 30 > hours (since it does an automatic metadata backup every 6 hours, it'll have > made 5 good snapshots). Or do 5 cycles of mount the file system, make some > change to it (like add or remove 1 file,), unmount it, so the last 5 > snapshots are good. Then remove that patch. There is code in s3ql to > remove those 64KB blocks when they're no longer needed for any recent > snapshots. > > > Oh yeah and once you remove the patch at the end, then run a fsck.s3ql > --force to verify your remote metadata is actually good again. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "s3ql" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/s3ql/630e9c0b-bccb-4af6-beb3-4a5606949f09n%40googlegroups.com.
