I think you are hard pressed to say there is a main-stream solution. It
looks like there are quite a few labs using autosave while other have
different requirements and therefore different tools.
At the CLS we use a locally developed auto-save. We have diskless RTEMS
machines embedded in a lot of our equipment. As well our accelerator
operations group wanting the ability to "undo" changes.
In our case all the data and auto-save restore software runs on a
Scientific Linux server with RAID or a SAN.
I think you are just going to have to determine what system best meets
your requirements.
Elder
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To: Thomas Birke <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PV save and restore tool sought
From: Emmanuel Mayssat <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:00:13 -0700
Cc: [email protected]
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
References:
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du> <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 16:55 +0200, Thomas Birke wrote:
> The warm-reboot save-and-restore is realized with the IOC-based
version
> of autosave as it comes with the synApps package.
I am currently investigating warm reboot.
As such, I am currently investigating autosave and may move away from
that feature implementation in the driver.
My questions are:
* Is autosave the mainstream tool? i.e. the bumpless utility used by
most of you? I heard at SLAC, they are using channel watcher.
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/package/epics/extensions/ChannelW
atcher/index.html
Is there anything else that you recommend I look at?
* What are autosave's and your recommended software's limitations? what
happens in a case of a ioc crash? can backup files be corrupted? Are
backups saved in files or database? Are files the most simple and
reliable architecture? what are the disadvantage/advantages of a
distributed database? central database?
* What are the disadvantages/advantages of ioc-based backup utility
versus others designed as ca-client?
I read "The current version of Save/Restore (sr), also known as Bumpless
Reboot, may be interfering with normal IOC operations due to the large
number of file writes." How much of a problem is that, really?
* Is there a SIMPLE way to generate a req/request file on the fly for
backup? I have "dynamic" ioc, where the names of records may change
between reboots, or some records may just disappear. Do you have each
time to reconfigure the backup request file? Although I believe this
should be required for a general backup utility, why should it for a
bumpless reboot utility?
Is it possible to generate a req file at ioc startup that save all the
"live" records with name's ending with *O or *AO, etc. ( a dbgrep to a
file can help, but the backup utility needs to reread its config files )
* What happens if the backup utility is looking for a record that
doesn't exist? Is backup still ongoing? Does it significantly increase
the traffic load on the network?
* Is log-on-change possible for individual output records? I heard this
is not the forte of autosave, but I may be wrong.
* What if there are no values previously saved on the particular ioc.
What is the default value? The one in db file? Is it possible to
import/copy backup data?
* Although I am mostly interested in bumpless reboot, are there
utilities that do bumpless reboot in a very similar way they do regular
backup? I am currently using sddscasr (casr in sdds files ), but am
reacquainting myself with casr and burt. Should I look at those or are
they deprecated? Should I look at any other applications?
* etc.
--
Emmanuel
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