I have long wanted to do this but on the one occasion I tried I got lost inside fossil.
the problem is fossil expects venti to have a hierarchy of the form /active/ and /archive/ where as your venti does not, I guess it has just your home dir. it is easy to create the required placeholder in a new fossil attached to your fossil. what is missing is a fossil admin command to create a new directory but attach it to a given, existing venti score. if you could do this you could creat an empty fossil attached to your existing fossil and then populate your /archive/yyyy/mmdd/usr/yourname with each venti score you have from your old vac(1)s. have a look at the fossil create command. -Steve > On 17 Dec 2015, at 17:05, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen > <ole.hjalmar.kristen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a file server running Linux at home, with a normal ext3 file system > and a plan9port venti. I use this venti for vac backup of both the ext3 file > system and other Linux boxes. However, the 2 TB ext3 is running out of space, > while the venti is roughly 50% full. I could just buy a bigger disk, of > course, but the exit3 itself is mainly an archive (pictures, video, and many > years of accumulated documents and software), so I consider switching to a > fossil+venti file server instead. The fossil manual says "The score should > have been generated by fossil rather than by vac, so that the appropriate > snapshot metadata is present". Is there any way of coercing fossil to > initialize itself properly from a score produced by vac? I could copy the > files from ext3, but would likely run out of space in fossil, which I gather > is a bad idea. I run a 9front cwfs auth/cpu/file server, but have no > experience with fossil, so any help is welcome. > > > > >
