/sys/src/cmd/venti/words/printarenas no idea why it lived there though.
-Steve > On 12 Dec 2017, at 18:33, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen > <ole.hjalmar.kristen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmm. On both my plan9port and on a 9front system I find printarenas.c, but no > script. Maybe you are thinking of the script for backup of individual arenas > to file? Yes, that could be a starting point. > > Anyway, printarenas.c doesn't look too scary, basically a loop checking all > (or matching) arenas. It seems possible to modify the logic to start at a > specific offset. > > Not running fossil at the moment, btw., my main file server is a Linux box, > but I use vac for backup, both at home and at work. Fossil is definitely on > my todo list, although the reported behavior when running out of space is a > bit scary. Do you know why it does not simply block further requests while > checkpointing to venti, or even better, starts a snapshot before it runs out > of space? > >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: >> printarenas is a script - it walks through all your arenas at each offset. >> >> You could craft another script that remembers the last arena and offset you >> successfully >> transferred and only send those after that. >> >> I think there is a pattern where you can save the last arena,offset in the >> local >> fossil. Then you could mount the remote venti to check that last arena,offset >> that actually arrived and stuck to the disk on the remote site. >> >> On a similar subject I have 10 years of backups from a decomissioned work >> server >> that I need to merge into my home venti one of these days... >> >> -Steve >> >
