Hi Justin As far as I know, the inventory service - using OSGrid's servers - is working fine normally. I've had no problems with it in-world, put it that way.
I've since conducted tests of "save iar" on a couple of other avatars on OSGrid with much smaller inventories, and that's worked fine as far as I can tell. So perhaps it's the size of my inventory that's the problem. Justin Clark-Casey wrote: > Immediately after the > > [INVENTORY ARCHIVER]: Found folder My Inventory <uuid> at / > > OpenSim should start saying things like > > [XINVENTORY SERVICE]: Fetch contents for folder > 8cb6b32a-2103-4a75-a8cb-c065c0063bf9 > > The fact that it isn't suggests a failure with the inventory service (I'm > assuming you're using the default inventory > service rather than, say, the SimianGrid one). In this situation, no amount > of waiting will move things forward. > > What should really happen is that the IAR save should time out, though that > wouldn't really help much except to tell you > that it's failed. > > Is your inventory service definitely working for all the items in your > inventory? > > > On 29/10/10 22:52, John Hopkin wrote: > > Thanks everyone for your responses. > > > > Based on what WftW is saying here, it sounds like it could well still > > be processing normally, even though the IAR file doesn't grow and > > there's nothing on the console. I'll try it for much longer the next > > time I don't need my avatar for a few days. ;) > > > > 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
