Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

[Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>]

Get ready to wait! It took almost a month for me to import about 30GB
from a decommissioned file server. It was well worth the wait though -
if you place the the resulting .vac file under /lib/vac (or
$home/lib/vac) you can just use 9fs to mount with zero fuss.

On a related note, once sources starting having issues with
availability, I started running nightly snaps of my contrib directory
via cron:

contrib=/n/sources/contrib/$user
9fs sources
@{cd $contrib && vac -a $home/lib/vac/contrib.vac .} >[2]/dev/null

Now I have a dump-like history of changes I've made to my contrib
directory without the need to connect to sources:

% 9fs contrib.vac
% lc /n/contrib
2015    2016    2017

Cheers,
Steve

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> printarenas is a script - it walks through all your arenas at each offset.
>
> You could craft another script that remembers the last arena and offset you successfully
> transferred and only send those after that.
>
> I think there is a pattern where you can save the last arena,offset in the local
> fossil. Then you could mount the remote venti to check that last arena,offset
> that actually arrived and stuck to the disk on the remote site.
>
> On a similar subject I have 10 years of backups from a decomissioned work server
> that I need to merge into my home venti one of these days...
>
> -Steve
>