[Borgbackup] migrating from attic

Alexey Bazhin baz at irc.msk.ru
Mon Mar 21 10:46:54 EDT 2016


On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:36:58 +0100
Thomas Waldmann <tw at waldmann-edv.de> wrote:

> 
> >> Did you run the repo conversion on the machine that is normally
> >> running the borg (client) to backup the data that is in the repo?
> > No, I ran repo upgrade on backup storage itself. Backups are made
> > from another box via ssh.
> 
> OK, then it only converted the repo, not the attic cache on that
> other box (backup client box).
> 
> That explains why there is no borg files and chunks cache on that box.
> 
> You could copy ~/.attic ~/.cache/attic to the storage box and run 
> migration again, then copy ~/.config/borg ~/.cache/borg back to the
> backup client box.
I started migration to borg because attic was crashing with
OverflowError while accessing the cache. I thought that "cache" is
something redundant and maybe broken and dropped it already. Any other
way to recreate right cache?

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Alexey Bazhin <baz at irc.msk.ru>


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