On Monday 19 March 2007, Michael Loftis wrote: >--On March 18, 2007 11:16:49 PM -0400 Gene Heskett > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sunday 18 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:15:30PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> If we had such a tool, I could run an estimate phase in advance of >>>> the regular run and be in a position to reboot to the older kernel >>>> ahead of time instead of totally screwing with the amanda database. >>> >>> I'm not sure that is the most compelling use-case! ;) >> >> Well, given enough time I expect I could come up with more excuses. :) >> >>> That said, it's always useful to be able to decompose operations for >>> debugging purposes. At this point, the system is not factored in >>> such a way as to make that break a clean one. I can think of ways to >>> accomplish something *like* what you're asking, but they're all hacks >>> that would be harder than >>> >>> if [ $(ssh mybox uname -r) == "2.6.foo.bar" ] >>> then >>> echo "Please reboot mybox" | page_gene >>> fi >> >> Well, I know that 2.6.21-rc1-rc2-rc3 are making tar look broken. So >> if it screws up tonight, I go get the identically versioned but hand >> built tar-1.15-1 from my old FC2 install, nearly a megabyte in size, >> and move the tar-1.15-1 from the FC6 rpm install out of the way. That >> one is only about 240k. Mine is obviously staticly linked as its some >> over 830k in size. If that won't work, and all the other file >> inspection tools all report sane dates and such, but tar still insists >> on backing up most of the 45GB I have here in one fell swoop when told >> to do a level 3 or 4, then tar is indeed broken and the bugzilla entry >> I made against it 3 days ago will get re-inforced with more data. >> Considering that a vtape here is sized at about 11GB, there is no >> reason for amanda to tell it to backup 3x the data the tape will hold. >> >> In this case, an amestimate utility would be handier than that famous >> button on the equally famous door. I could time a run and see what it >> says, change something and repeat, and do it several times a day >> without screwing up amanda's database all that badly. > >You can make a run with no-record set on the DLEs....
Which still takes as much time, and if I have to bisect all of the patches between 2.6.20 final and 2.6.21-rc1 to find it, that time wasted will make me sit here till the middle of June! And that ain't gonna happen. Thanks guys. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) f u cn rd ths, u r prbbly a lsy spllr.