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Arno Lehmann wrote:
> 30.10.2008 04:47, Dan Langille wrote:
>> SZÉKELYI Szabolcs wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the ability to use FIFOs to produce the data to be backed up is a nice
>>> feature of Bacula, however, I don't really understand how this can work
>>> reliably.
>>>
>>> I understand the concept, but I have problems with timing. I did a small
>>> research on how FIFOs work. Consider the following script:
>>>
>>> ==
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>
>>> exec > /dev/null
>>>
>>> mkfifo /tmp/tmpfifo
>>>
>>> (
>>>   for n in `seq 20`; do
>>>     echo $n >/tmp/tmpfifo
>>>     sleep 1
>>>   done
>>> ) &
>>> ==
>>>
>>> Let's use this script to generate the data to be backed up, so it is run
>>> from RunBeforeJob. Creates a FIFO, writes the numbers from 1 to 20 into
>>> it, with a 1 second delay between them.
> 
> You need to be aware that your loop does the following:
> 1. open the FIFO for writing
> 2. write into it
> 3. close the FIFO
> 4. sleep
> 5. loop
> 
> The important thing is that the FIFO is opened and closed for each write.
> 
> If, on the other hand, you opened the FIFO in the surrounding code, 
> redirected your output to it (for testing, do it similarly as you do 
> with 'exec > /dev/null') and closed the FIFO once the loop is done 
> you'll see your cat reads all the numbers in one go.
> 
> That's the difference.

That's a point. I see now. Thanks.

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