[Borgbackup] [SOLVED-almost]Find repository version number

[Stan Armstrong]

The current borg version number can be found by intentionally issuing a 
command that will return a traceback error report. Is there a simple way 
to do this?

On 12/02/16 02:05 PM, Billy Charlton wrote:
> Perhaps the borg info command should describe the default chunk 
> parameters for a repository, as well as the specific chunk parameters 
> for an archive. that would be better than inferring chunk parameters 
> from the code version.
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Adrian Klaver 
> <adrian.klaver at aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver at aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/12/2016 09:39 AM, Stan Armstrong wrote:
>
>         Yes, but the config version (=1 for both a 0.30 and a 1.0.0rc
>         repository) gives no help with the problem.
>
>         Since there was a change in the default chunk size between program
>         versions, knowing the version of a repository makes a
>         difference in
>         judging whether or not to replace a 0.30 repository with an
>         entirely
>         new, larger chunk size 1.0.0rc repository.
>
>
>     If I follow the Changelog correctly:
>
>     https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/1.0.0rc1/docs/changes.rst
>
>     what you want to do is going to be complicated if you are already
>     using 1.0.0rc against an existing repo. Basically a repo can have
>     multiple chunk size archives within it and that can result from
>     the program version change or user changes to --chunker-params. So
>     knowing what version created a repo is not necessarily an
>     indication of the chunkiness of the archives within.
>
>
>         I expected the borg info -v command to give me the program
>         version. It
>         doesn't. I thought perhaps the README file in the repository
>         directory
>         might have the program version. It doesn't.
>
>         On 12/02/16 11:40 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>             On 02/12/2016 07:26 AM, Stan Armstrong wrote:
>
>                 I am running 1.0.0rc. I have several repositories on
>                 two different
>                 machines. How do I find the version that created a
>                 specific repository?
>
>
>             Do not know how you find the program version, but if you
>             look in the
>             config file in each repo it will show you the repo version.
>
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>     Adrian Klaver
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