this has never worked as intended as the function was not using the computed "fields[1]" value at all.
plus there were type issues after that was fixed.
if the borg.exe binary is not available in PATH, binary tests are skipped.
source tests are run without forking (for better speed, esp. on travis).
binary tests need forking the binary, of course.
for source tests, some tests check for an exception to happen.
for a forked binary, we of course can only check the exit code, which is non-zero in that case.
it seems it is possible that the chunks files are copied but *not*
converted. this may have happened here because the conversion was
interrupted, although the specific scenario is still unclear (but it
did happen during manual tests here). therefore reproducing this
problem seems to be difficult, hence the lack of tests for this
specific issue.
since we consider the header replacement code to be safe, that we
always convert shouldn't pose any additional threat to the existing
borg chunk cache.
this resolves bug #something where the index file could not be
converted, completely breaking conversion.
it seems that, during some refactoring, the index conversion code was
completely dropped. this was missed by the unit tests because the repo
can still be opened by the constructor even though the index is
invalid, so tests need improvements there.
the old name still works, but emits a deprecation warning suggesting the new name.
this is a followup to 4fd06e2634, which added "-x" (as seen in "du").
Moved the list of dependencies to the corresponding subsection.
Collected all preparation steps under one heading.
Added link to the Arch Linux AUR package.
Install docs for OS X.
instead, we perform the equivalent of `cp -al` on the repository to
keep a backup, and then rewrite the files, breaking the hardlinks as
necessary.
it has to be confirmed that the rest of Borg will also break hardlinks
when operating on files in the repository. if Borg operates in place
on any files of the repository, it could jeoperdize the backup, so
this needs to be verified. I believe that most files are written to a
temporary file and moved into place, however, so the backup should be
safe.
the rationale behind the backup copy is that we want to be extra
careful with user's data by default. the old behavior is retained
through the `--inplace`/`-i` commandline flag. plus, this way we don't
need to tell users to go through extra steps (`cp -a`, in particular)
before running the command.
also, it can take a long time to do the copy of the attic repository
we wish to work on. since `cp -a` doesn't provide progress
information, the new default behavior provides a nicer user experience
of giving an overall impression of the upgrade progress, while
retaining compatibility with Attic by default (in a separate
repository, of course).
this makes the upgrade command much less scary to use and hopefully
will convert drones to the borg collective.
the only place where the default inplace behavior is retained is in
the header_replace() function, to avoid breaking the cache conversion
code and to keep API stability and semantic coherence ("replace" by
defaults means in place).
This is what attic used by default, but borgbackup defaults to "no compression".
I just adjusted the command invocation, so we can keep the example output
(which shows that stuff was compressed).
Also: add FAQ item about compression.
