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

[John Hopkin]

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

drwhiet at spacefriends.de 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
> >
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John Hopkin