On Monday 19 March 2007, Michael Loftis wrote:
>--On March 18, 2007 11:16:49 PM -0400 Gene Heskett
>
><gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net> wrote:
>> On Sunday 18 March 2007, dustin AT zmanda DOT com 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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