On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:05 AM, basma a.azeem <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Kapil,
>
> thank you for your reply
>
>
>    - so i can put the path to shared folder in the checkpoint using the
>    flag to dmtcp_launch like that:
>
> if i have a node named centralStore and shared folder on it named
> Myapplication
>
> --ckptdir  //centralStore/Myapplication
> this will put the checkpoint files on the shared folder  named Myapplication
> on a node named centralStore
>

Correct.

>
>
>    - the second part concerning The restart script , i need to run an
>    application on one node lets call it node1 and i need to checkpoint that
>    application but store the checkpoint files and restart script on a second
>    node lets call it central store . so to do this you said that i need to "cd
>    <dirname>; /path/to/dmtcp_coordinator" but the directory here is not on the
>    same machine
>
> If the shared folder is not accessible on the node where the
dmtcp_coordinator is running, then unfortunately, there is nothing we can
do except for copying the restart script by hand.  An alternative is to run
the dmtcp_coordinator on one of the other nodes where the shared folder is
accessible.


>
> Basma
> ------------------------------
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:33:16 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Dmtcp-forum] checkpoint to a remote location
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
>
>
> Hi Basma,
>
> You can use the "--ckptdir <dirname>" flag to dmtcp_launch to put ckpt
> images in a certain directory.  The restart script is a little trickier.
> But the simplest way is to do "cd <dirname>; /path/to/dmtcp_coordinator".
> Dmtcp coordinator put the restart script in the same directory where it was
> started from, so if you change to your shared directory before running
> dmtcp_coordinator, everything should work just fine.
>
> Kapil
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:23 PM, basma a.azeem <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi
> How can i checkpoint to a certain shared folder on a certain node on my
> network
> i mean to save the checkpoint files and the ./dmtcp_restart_script.sh file
> on a remote central node during the checkpoint process
> as if the checkpoint directory is located at a shared folder on a pc on a
> network
>
> thank you
>
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