[347] in Athena_Backup_System
abs.shell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ted@MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 1 15:15:39 1996
From: ted@MIT.EDU
To: athena-backup@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 15:14:47 EST
I'm running into some difficulties getting information using the
abs.shell, which are probably do to being unfamiliar with tcl and/or
the UI. Let me describe what the walls look like.
Several commands produce output that runs multiple screens,
e.g. showdumpset, and it took some hacking around to find a way to see
the entire output. The most reliable method was to run:
"./abs.shell | ( tee /tmp/abs & )" and in a separate xterm, run:
"tail -f /tmp/abs | more". Miki and I tried using tcl commands to
grab the output, but it looks like the abs commands don't return
anything useful for tcl to process, they just print the info
directly.
Along this line, the format of the output is generally rather verbose
and seems to include more whitespace that necessary, which aggravates
the problem. I like the output from "showmediai <foo>" except that
the output line wraps when -full is added (not a big problem).
I could not find out which dumpset Diane was using yesterday except
by reading the log file on turbodog. "showjobs" didn't help, as I
remember (not that I can trust my memory, I see, since some of the
things I tried yesterday work different now than I remember them
working yesterday).
I found that showmedia will list what tapes a volume is on, but I
can't determine what dumpsets are involved. The '-full' option lists
numbers for the dumpsets, but I can't find a way to translate the
number to dumpset info (unless I assume that showdumpset lists them in
order and count, but I need to also assume that the counting starts at
0 or 1)-.
Suggestions?
--Ted
