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There's a new version of the archiver toolset, accessible from the links on the APS web page. The web page was actually already updated last Friday, but that snapshot includes an error. So if you fetched an update on Friday, try again today. There are tree types of changes: - "Example Setup" chapter and the scripts to support it (ArchiveDaemon, ...) have been modified. Before, we tried to periodically update the 'master' indices e.g. every 20 minutes. That no longer worked with the amount of data we have at the SNS (~3..5GB per day). Now we separate the 'sampling' computers (running archive engines) from the 'serving' computers (indexing, serving). This way, we can access 'all' the data for 2005 & 2006, but the catch is: There's a split between 'all' referring to all the currently running archive engines and 'all' referring to all the older data (typically: Jan 2005...yesterday). So it's not perfect, but it's the best we have for now. If you liked the ArchiveDaemon.pl as it was: Assert that you keep the older copy around, don't overwrite it with the new one. - EPICS base R3.14.8.2 introduced an 'assert' that might stop your application when the nanoseconds of the time stamps are not normalized, i.e. exceed 1e9, and you convert between epicsTime and epicsTimeStamp. Jeff recently added a patch that makes this more consistent, so your application is very likely to get an exception when trying to use non-normalized time stamps. That's good, except some IOCs at the SNS still occasionally have such bad time stamps because of ongoing timing system development. So the archiver code tries to catch these time stamps. - Archiver code uses C++ exceptions, which sometimes leads to better error messages, since for example a low-level read error exception gets passed up and printed together with the channel name or other context information. Thanks, -Kay
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ANJ, 02 Sep 2010 |
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