Save/Restore

A Tcl/Tk frontend for BURT

Features

• save or restore any combination of machine-areas
• partial restore of snapshots
• view/filter/compare snapshots
• compare (optionally parts of)
  • setpoints of two snapshots
  • readbacks of two snapshots
  • setpoints with its readbacks
  
• generically built area-menu
  available areas are determined at runtime from scanning the request-file-hierarchy for available files
• snapshots contain setpoints and readbacks (if possible)
• special files may be written into the machine before/after restoring the appropriate area
• remove snapshots from the system
• save/email/print snapshot data
• easy to modify/extend area-menu
• easy integration of new features (Tcl/Tk)

excessively used Features

• Make full-sized snapshots and restore parts of it
• Make snapshots of optimized parts of the machine and restore these with other machine-states
• all compare functions

Abstractions

• user doesn't have to handle/recognize filenames
• user gives verbose comments to identify snapshots
• snapshot-files are hidden and can be extracted explicitly for post-processing

Experiences

• very good acceptance
• up to now more than 750 snapshots

Requirements for Installation

• extended Tcl/Tk 8.0 (wishx8.0)
• burt (burtrb, burtwb and burtconvertsnap) have to be installed
• SDDS (sddsconvert, -2stream, -sort, -xref and -process) has to be installed
• command-line print-, mail- and rsh-programs
• request-file-hierarchy created manually or by a program/script

Latest modification: 21 Dec 98 11:58:22 Thomas Birke Thomas Birke <[email protected]>