Conversion from rdiff-backup

[hoxu]

I did not find any list of conversion utilities, is there anything for converting existing rdiff-backup repositories to attic?

[adept]

I used a script like this to extract all rdiff backups one by one and back
them up using attic:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
for inc in ./photos/rdiff-backup-data/increments.*.dir ; do
f=$(basename $inc)
name=${f%%.dir}
name=${name##increments.}
if [ -f ./photos.status/$name ] ; then
echo "@@@ Already processed: $name"
else
echo "@@@ Processing: $name"
echo "@@@ Extracting $f"
rdiff-backup --force ${inc} /volume1/photos
echo "@@@ Archiving $name"
attic create -v --stats
./photos.attic::${name}/volume1/photos
| tee -a ./photos.status/$name.log
touch ./photos.status/$name
fi
done

Note that I did not try to preserve archive creation time, but otherwise
this script worked like a charm.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Heikki Hokkanen notifications@github.com
wrote:

I did not find any list of conversion utilities, is there anything for
converting existing rdiff-backup repositories to attic?

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Dmitry Astapov

[hoxu]

FWIW, I started working on a script that is able to incrementally convert rdiff-backup increments into attic archives: https://github.com/hoxu/rdiff-backup2attic

Perhaps the README could have a section "How to convert from other backup systems" and link to it?