Fantastic, I will do the tests next week. Honestly I did not expect the 
change to get through so fast :-)

Craig, thanks a lot for you wonderful work. And thanks Michael for the 
initial testing!

Best regards,

Pavel.


Dne 14.3.2017 v 02:38 Michael Huntley napsal(a):
> Works great, zero problems.  Test restores function properly.
>
> Awesome!
>
>
>
> mph
>
> On 2017-03-12 22:21, Craig Barratt wrote:
>
>> I pushed bin/BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 to git.  It uses the hybrid
>> approach I mentioned - V3 backups still use the same forward deltas;
>> this script only replaces the hardlinked backups in each directory
>> with V4 attrib files (and MD5 digests).
>>
>> Usage:
>>
>>
>>     BackupPC_migrateV3toV4 [-p] [-v] [-h host [-n V3backupNum]]
>>
>>
>> So to convert a specific backup and host, use both -h ClientName and
>> -n BkupNum.  If you don't specify -n, then all that host's V3 backups
>> will be converted.
>>
>> Warning: with no arguments, it will try to convert every v3 backup
>> (maybe I should change that).
>>
>> There are some related changes in several other places, including
>> lib/BackupPC/View.pm, that make the V3 hybrid storage work correctly
>> with the rest of BackupPC.  So you'll need to pull all the new code
>> from git to test.
>>
>> If you want to test this, I'd recommend testing it on a single or
>> series of V3 backups.  You can safely copy the backup trees using cp
>> -prl (which maintains the hardlinks), eg:
>>
>>
>>     cd /data/BackupPC/pc/exampleHost
>>
>>     mv 5 5.orig ; cp -prl 5.orig 5
>>     mv 6 6.orig ; cp -prl 6.orig 6
>>     mv 7 7.orig ; cp -prl 7.orig 7
>>     cp backups backups.save
>>
>>
>>
>> If you want to put things back the way they were:
>>
>>     rm -rf 5 ; mv 5.orig 5
>>     rm -rf 6 ; mv 5.orig 6
>>     rm -rf 7 ; mv 5.orig 7
>>     # copy the [567] lines from backups.save into backups;
>>     # only do "mv backups.save backups" if you are sure no
>>     # new backups have been done
>>
>>
>> Craig

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