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<DIV>Success at last. Thanks for the help and guidance to find the correct
solution.</DIV>
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<DIV>I noticed a few new parameters have crept into the auto backup function and
there is no location where all of these things are brought together for a user
to find.</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree with Unadecal Arado the feature to select a specific time
would be a good addition. I restart my regions daily at 4 am, and
sometimes more often than that.</DIV>
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<DIV>“It would be great if we had a key called AutoBackupTime = hh:mm, which
schedules a backup for hh:mm no matter what is set, and then at
AutoBackupInterval after that. This way, OAR generation might be more
predictable at longer intervals.”</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If I know how to update the wiki or better yet the opensim page found by
Googling “opensim autobackup” with this information, I believe this function of
opensim would be a much simpler function to implement.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have added this to my .ini file so in the future I can easily make
changes without going through dozens of trial and error operations.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>; Configuration Settings </DIV>
<DIV>; Global (in OpenSim.ini under [AutoBackupModule] section)
AutoBackupModuleEnabled: True/False. Default: False. If False, every function in
the module is as no-op as possible: just return as soon as realizing that we're
not enabled. Otherwise it will try to get as far as it can with auto backup for
each region. </DIV>
<DIV>; Global (in OpenSim.ini) or Per-Region (in Regions/Regions.ini under the
region's name's section) </DIV>
<DIV>; IMPORTANT: Settings declared per-region in Regions/Regions.ini override
settings in OpenSim.ini. Settings in OpenSim.ini, in turn, override hard-coded
defaults. AutoBackup: True/False. Default: False. If True, activate auto
backup functionality. This is the only required option for enabling auto-backup;
the other options have sane defaults. If False, the auto-backup module becomes a
no-op for the region, and all other AutoBackup* settings are ignored. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupModuleEnabled: True/False. Default: False. If False, every
function in the module is as no-op as possible: just return as soon as realizing
that we're not enabled. Otherwise it will try to get as far as it can with auto
backup for each region. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupInterval: Integer, non-negative value. Default: 720 (12 hours).
The number of minutes between each backup attempt. If a negative or zero value
is given, it is equivalent to setting AutoBackup = False. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupBusyCheck: True/False. Default: True. If True, we will only
take an auto-backup if a set of conditions are met. These conditions are
heuristics to try and avoid taking a backup when the sim is busy. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupScript: String. Default: not specified (disabled). File path to
an executable script or binary to run when an automatic backup is taken. argv[1]
of the executed file/script will be the file name of the generated OAR. If the
process can't be spawned for some reason (file not found, no execute permission,
etc), write a warning to the console. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupNaming: string. Default: Time. One of three strings (case
insensitive): </DIV>
<DIV>; "Time": Current timestamp is appended to file name. An existing
file will never be overwritten. </DIV>
<DIV>; "Sequential": A number is appended to the file name. So if
RegionName_x.oar exists, we'll save to RegionName_{x+1}.oar next. An existing
file will never be overwritten. </DIV>
<DIV>; "Overwrite": Always save to file named "RegionName.oar", even if we
have to overwrite an existing file. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupDir: String. Default: "." (the current directory). A directory
(absolute or relative) where backups should be saved. If the path is not a
directory, or insufficient permissions are available, a warning will be printed
to the console and no backups will be taken. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupDilationThreshold: float. Default: 0.5. Lower bound on time
dilation required for BusyCheck heuristics to pass. If the time dilation
is below this value, don't take a backup right now. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupAgentThreshold: int. Default: 10. Upper bound on # of agents in
region required for BusyCheck heuristics to pass. If the number of agents
is greater than this value, don't take a backup right now. </DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupKeepFilesForDays: int. Default: 0. </DIV>
<DIV>; 1) number of days to keep backups (0 the default value will
disable this option).</DIV>
<DIV>; 2) After each backup, remove all oars in the backup directory
that are older than the specified number of days.</DIV>
<DIV>; note: if the user set the bin directory as the backup
location, only oar files are removed. There is no way to know if an oar was
created by auto-backup, or manually created or uploaded. It is not recommended
to use the bin directory for your auto backups for this reason.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>; Example:</DIV>
<DIV>;[AutoBackupModule]</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackup = true</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupInterval = 30</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupBusyCheck = false</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupThreshold = 1</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupSkipAssets = false</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupKeepFilesForDays = 30</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupNaming = Time</DIV>
<DIV>; AutoBackupDir = /var/opensim/backup/test/</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Tom</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dahliatrimble@gmail.com
href="mailto:dahliatrimble@gmail.com">Dahlia Trimble</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 23, 2015 6:11 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=opensim-users@opensimulator.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Opensim-users] How to set up
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<DIV dir=ltr>I had a typo in the last message; I had changed the time to 12
hours after the test but before copy/pasting. The time is specified in minutes
and for 1 hour it would be:<BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=im><BR></SPAN>AutoBackupInterval = 60<BR></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Dahlia Trimble <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dahliatrimble@gmail.com"
target=_blank>dahliatrimble@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr>The AutoBackupModule is in OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.dll.
I'm not sure of the origins of the code, if it works properly, or if it is
fully implemented or maintained.<BR>
<DIV><BR>I added the following to the bottom of *OpenSim.ini* and it appears
to work:<BR><BR>[AutoBackupModule]<SPAN><BR>AutoBackupModuleEnabled =
true<BR>AutoBackup = true<BR></SPAN>AutoBackupInterval =
720<BR>AutoBackupSkipAssets = true<BR>AutoBackupKeepFilesForDays =
5<BR>AutoBackupDir = ../backups/<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>After an hour I found a oar file in the specified directory. There were
also console messages showing output from the save oar task.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Unadecal Arado <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:unadecal.arado@gmail.com"
target=_blank>unadecal.arado@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Hello again Thomas, I managed to work this out. I rummaged
through some txt files I have been collecting with various configuration
hacks collected through chatting to other sim owners in OSGrid and I
found this:
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>
<DIV>[AutoBackupModule]</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>;; default is module is disabled at the top level</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true</DIV></SPAN>
<DIV>AutoBackup = true</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupInterval = 1440</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupBusyCheck = true</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupNaming = time</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupDir = "D:\OARBackups\"</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupThreshold = 1</DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I'm not sure what AutoBackupThreshold does, it might be an error in
invoking AutoBackupdilationThreshold since it seems to be
undocumented.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>At any rate, the key ingredient there seems to be AutoBackup = true to
enable the feature. It started working after I added this.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>As a matter of interest, I run the base OS distro and the Metropolis
distro, both at the 0.8.0.3 version level on Windows and there isn't a
separate Autobackup module, but the feature works. Also, the Windows build
seems to be happy with both UNIX and DOS style file paths.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>As an aside, I don't think that having autoBackup as an interval from
uptime is the best way to go about this. It works if the sim is undergoing
constant change and you set the intervals short enough, such as 30, 60 or
120 minutes. In any given day, then, you are bound to have several OARs,
which is great.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>On the other hand, if the sim is fairly static or you are keen to
minimize overheads and set the intervals to 12 or 24 hours because you don't
need more than 1 or two OARs per day, using Autobackup might not work,
particularly if the simulator restarts for whatever reason (most of my
simulators are set to restart daily). In that case, Autobackup might chase a
time interval which will never come.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It would be great if we had a key called AutoBackupTime = hh:mm, which
schedules a backup for hh:mm no matter what if set, and then at
AutoBackupInterval after that. Yhis way, OAR generation might be more
predictable at longer intervals.</DIV><SPAN><FONT color=#888888>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Unadecal</DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On 23 February 2015 at 06:22, Unadecal Arado <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:unadecal.arado@gmail.com"
target=_blank>unadecal.arado@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr>[Update]
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<DIV>I got curious, so I read the relevant Wiki pge (<A
href="http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Feature_Proposals/AutoBackup"
target=_blank>http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Feature_Proposals/AutoBackup</A>),
selected a currently unused simulator running Metropolis 0803, which is
the current version, inserted this section in the Opensim.ini
file:</DIV>
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<DIV>
<DIV>[AutoBackupModule]</DIV>
<DIV> AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true</DIV>
<DIV> AutoBackupInterval = 10</DIV>
<DIV> AutoBackupDir =
/Googledrive/Opensim-005/Embassy/OAR/</DIV>
<DIV> AutoBackupNaming = Time</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupBusyCheck=False</DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I then restarted the simulator and verified that the AutoBackup
configuration had taken effect by way of the "config show" console
command. It all seemed set, but there are no backups taking place. I have
no clues to follow at this point since the log does not provide any
details at all.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On 22 February 2015 at 22:22, Unadecal Arado <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:unadecal.arado@gmail.com"
target=_blank>unadecal.arado@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr>I'm not sure if your configuration is not being read
correctly, which is strange because you reference AutoBackup config
parameters in your StandaloneCommon.ini (I assume you include this file
in your Opensim.ini) and also in your regions file.
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Have you tried adding these parameters directly into your
Opensim.ini?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You might also want to set AutoBackupBusyCheck=False, since it
could also be that the module is procrastinating for some unknown
reason.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Hope this helps,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Unadecal</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>On 22 February 2015 at 21:36, Thomas Ringate <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:tringate@gmail.com"
target=_blank>tringate@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I can’t figure out what it is I am doing wrong. I want to
set up autobackup but it is not working for me.</DIV>
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<DIV>I placed the following into my StandaloneCommon.ini file.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>[AutoBackupModule]</DIV>
<DIV> AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true</DIV>
<DIV> AutoBackupInterval = 30</DIV>
<DIV> AutoBackupDir =
/var/opensim/backup/OAR/test/</DIV>
<DIV> AutoBackupNaming = Time</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>My expectations were this would set this for all of my regions as
their default and if I wanted something different in a specific region
I could set new values in that region.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I let the simulator run for a few hours and no OAR’s were created
at all.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I then added the following to one of my regions.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupModuleEnabled = true</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupInterval = 15</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupDir = /var/opensim/backup/test/</DIV>
<DIV>AutoBackupNaming = Time</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Left my simulator run for a few more hours and still nothing was
saved.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Looking in my log file I only see the following.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>2015-02-22 14:57:20,124 INFO -
OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.World.AutoBackup.AutoBackupModule [AUTO
BACKUP]: AutoBackupModule enabled</DIV>
<DIV>2015-02-22 14:57:20,128 DEBUG -
OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.World.AutoBackup.AutoBackupModule [AUTO
BACKUP]: Here is the default config:</DIV>
<DIV>2015-02-22 14:57:20,130 DEBUG -
OpenSim.Region.OptionalModules.World.AutoBackup.AutoBackupModule [AUTO
BACKUP]: AutoBackup: DISABLED</DIV>
<DIV>[AUTO BACKUP]: Interval: 720 minutes</DIV>
<DIV>[AUTO BACKUP]: Do Busy Check: Yes</DIV>
<DIV>[AUTO BACKUP]: Naming Type: Time</DIV>
<DIV>[AUTO BACKUP]: Backup Dir: .</DIV>
<DIV>[AUTO BACKUP]: Script: </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Searching my bin directory I do not see any file named <FONT
face="Times New Roman">IRegionAutoBackupModule or anything even
close.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">I used the last zip file on OSGrid
to build my simulator. I am running on Linux Fedora
21.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">The simulator has been dormant for
the entire testing. Only logged in once to make sure it was
working.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">I never say anything appear in the
console window either.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Tom</FONT></DIV>
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