Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.15 released

[Andreas Olsson]

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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