I was under the impression this file contained the compound names in the
order the
are saved in the CP. This way they could be loaded in the proper order. I
seem to
remember they were loaded in the order they appeared in the inode list if
the file was
not present.
At 12:04 PM 5/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I took a saveall that spanned three disks and tried the loadall from the ICC.
>It appears to work just fine, loading all the compounds from the disk even
>though there was only ONE compound listed in the .Compound_Dir file. We
>need to find the mechanism that makes this work before we can properly
>create saveall disks from the files we are making with our scripts using
>the ICC API.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Deen, Ron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 10:25 AM
>To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
>Subject: RE: Speaking of Save_All
>
>
>I asked around.
>The .Compound_Dir file contains the names of all compounds to be loaded.
>As a result only compounds in this file will be loaded regardless of the
>compounds available on the diskette. However, if .Compound_Dir it NOT on the
>diskette the compounds are loaded in what seems "random order".
>So if you state that .Compound_Dir contains only one compound name, this
>would be the only one loaded during load_all's.
>
>Hmmmm, I would be interested in the save_all diskettes and how you have made
>these. This is somewhat strange. We would have heard if load_all's would not
>load "all" I guess...
>
>Regards
>
>Ron Deen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stear, Bo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: maandag 7 mei 2001 16:53
>To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'
>Subject: RE: Speaking of Save_All
>
>
>In looking more closely at the contents of the save all diskettes I find
>something peculiar (at least to me).
>For savealls that can fit on a single disk, the file .Compound_Dir contains
>the list of compounds as you suggest.
>
>For savealls that span multiple disks, the content of the .Compound_Dir on
>disk #1 contains only the name of the LAST compound as seen from 'ls' on the
>mounted saveall and the content of the .Compound_Dir on disk #2 also
>contains the name of the LAST compound on that disk. I don't know if anyone
>here has actually tried to restore from these savealls but so far from what
>I gather, if Foxboro uses the content of this file to restore, it wont work.
>Anyone else know more about how this works?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Deen, Ron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 5:35 AM
>To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
>Subject: RE: Speaking of Save_All
>
>
>I'm sure about the name now:
>It is a hidden file: ".Compound_Dir" located in the save_all directory of
>your choice.
>
>Regards
>
>Ron Deen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Deen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: vrijdag 4 mei 2001 19:40
>To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
>Subject: Re: Speaking of Save_All
>
>
>I'm not sure about the name, but I think on the harddrive in the save_all
>directory, there's a file named "compound.dir" which contains the names (in
>order) of the
>compounds to be loaded. This is the same sequence as they appear in in ICC.
>Follow that list to create the diskette and you will be assured that the
>compounds will
>be loaded in the same sequence.
>I believe ECB's still go first, put these on the first diskette.
>
>Load_all's can be performed from the commandline too.
>Go to /opt/fox/ciocfg/api and run load_all<cr> for some usage info.
>The command take two arguments: "station" and "location/station" or the
>other way around, I can never remember.
>I could have them mixed up but I think:
>
>load_all <letterbug> <location_of_savealls>/<letterbug>
>
>comes close.
>
>You should not need it too often I hope...
>
>Regards
>
>Ron Deen@home
>
>"Stear, Bo" wrote:
>
> > I suspected as much. Is there anything special about savealls that span
>more than one disk? just copy the directories to multiple disks however
>they may fit?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:45 AM
> > To: Foxboro DCS Mail List
> > Subject: Re: Speaking of Save_All
> >
> > Bo,
> >
> > You should be able to do a cp -r on the directory that you put the
>save-all in.
> >
> > If the save_all command for CP3001 was:
> > save_all CP3001 /tmp/CP3001
> >
> > Insert a BLANK FORMATTED Solaris diskette
> > Mount it on /f0
> > cp -r /tmp/CP3001/* /f0
> >
> > and that should do it.
> >
> > David
> >
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