Thanks, WW. It's a big inventory, no doubt about that, over 29,000 items, but I did leave it running for about seven hours with no activity beyond the pasted lines.
John [email protected] wrote: > Hi John, > > this all depends on several factors .. > The size of your inventory, the speed of the inventorys asset server > and your connection to it AND the lenghth of your 'overnight' of course :-=) > > When i did a backup of my inventory when OSGRID was migrationg to .7 > it took me 4,5 hours. > > The process is like this.. > > First the save.iar command looks at your inventory and > creates the final .xml structure file of the .iar > Next it starts downloading all your inventory to a temporary cache folder > After download is complete it writes everything into that .iar file > > That the console window is frozen is OK. It is only frozen while creating > the .xml structure file. After that while it downloads everything the > console window is unfrozen. > > I think the save.iar writes out this .xml file with every single item. So > if a house has 200 prims and 200 textures and 200 scripts it will write > 600 entries for the item into that .xml file. > > Also, after that first waiting the second attempt was muuuch faster as > everything was already cached .. > > hope this helps .. > > best regards > Wordfromthe Wise > > > > I'd really like to back up my inv in OSGrid, and the "save iar" and > > "load iar" facility was working about six months or so ago, but I've > > been trying again and it seems to hang after starting. I get: > > > > Region (<Region name>) # save iar <1st> <2nd> / <passwd> inv.iar > > 05:30:11 - [INVENTORY ARCHIVER]: PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS FACILITY IS > > EXPERIMENTAL. BUG REPORTS WELCOME. > > 05:30:11 - [INVENTORY ARCHIVER]: Saving archive inv.iar using > > inventory path / for <user name> > > 05:30:12 - [INVENTORY ARCHIVER]: Creating version 0.1 IAR > > 05:30:12 - [INVENTORY ARCHIVER]: Added control file to archive. > > 05:30:12 - [INVENTORY ARCHIVER]: Found folder My Inventory <uuid> at / > > > > And that's all on the console - the sim continues to work as normal, > > but input on the console isn't available. 409600 bytes are written > > immediately to the archive, but no more. The CPU continues to be > > fairly heavily loaded, giving the impression that something is > > happening. > > > > The avatar is logged in to the region during all this. I've left it > > running overnight, and there was no progress seven hours later. This > > is on OpenSim 0.7.1 80f9022, running on Ubuntu, Mono 2.6.7, using > > OSGrid asset server. > > > > I know that iar is an experimental feature, but it's extremely handy. > > Is there anything I can do to get it working again? Thanks. > > -- > > John Hopkin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensim-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > -- John Hopkin _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
