To amuse myself (and maybe even one day have backups) I decided to
install a venti on a spare usb disk I had lying around, from my OS X
box, under P9P. That was fairly painless, and I now have a shiny new
130 gig set of arenas to play with.
So I vac'd up some files, and then thought I'd try to get them back.
Has anyone had success with vacfs from p9p? I've tried a simple '9p
ls vacfs.vacfile' after starting the server and assuring myself the
socket was there, but it simply hang there - no prompt until I
interrupt the process.
Any ideas?
I also thought I'd try vbackup, but it really wants to run on an
unmounted disk. Of course, Macs come with their standard setup as
one big partition with user files in the same partition as the system
files - no way to do a backup with vbackup.
How difficult would it be to get a vbackup image from the same kind
of walk as vac uses?
And lastly, what's the correct way to shut down venti? Will I lose
anything if I just eject (unmount) the drive? I can force a flush
from the web server - do I need to do that each time or is there a
nice command line option somewhere? Or do I just write the trivial
script?
Paul
