[Opensim-users] Is "save iar" broken?

[drwhiet at spacefriends.de]

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
>
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