From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200408031426.i73EQJ026356@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] venti migration In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:26:03 +0100." References: From: Axel Belinfante Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:26:19 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0d5c022-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I have a pile of backups on cdroms taken over the years and I > want to add them into my venti archive. > > What I _THINK_ I need to do is copy the dumps, one by one into > my fossil filesystem and then execute: This reminds me of when I started archiving the dump of my ken-fs file server to venti using (a variant of) a script nemo posted here (or made available on his web site? or sent via private mail?) (I stopped halfway (for no real reason) and still run the ken-fs server, but I know nemo moved from ken-fs to fossil). The script essentially runs vac on each dump day subdirectory. I think nemo uses a patched 9fs script to overlay the vac'ed ken-fs dumps with the archival snapshots of the fossil server (nemo, please correct me if I'm wrong). > Loading the backups via vac would allow me to strip duplicate files > using the files metadata but that would just leave me with a hex score > and I have not found a way of inserting a score into the active filesystem. I have been wondering whether it would be possible/useful to be able to do that (insert a score into the active filesystem). Axel.