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. Thanks Dustin. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) What hath Bob wrought?
