On Monday 19 March 2007, Michael Loftis wrote:
--On March 18, 2007 11:16:49 PM -0400 Gene Heskett
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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
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