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

[John Hopkin]

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
> >
> > 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