Auto Archive

Functionality for archive and restore

  This will write potion of the definition to disk and restore on re-queue/begin

  This helps in coping with extra large suites.

   Archives suite or family nodes *IF* they have child nodes(otherwise does nothing).

   Saves the suite/family nodes to disk, and then removes the child nodes from the definition

    This saves memory in the server, when dealing with huge definitions that are not needed.

     It  It improves time taken to checkpoint and reduces network bandwidth

     If  If the node is re-queued or begun, the child nodes are automatically restored

      Use  ecflow_client --restore to reload the archived nodes manually

     Care must be taken if you have trigger reference to the archived nodes

      The nodes are saved to ECF_HOME/ECF_NAME.check, where '/' has been replace with ':' in ECF_NAME      

Usage

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• ecflow_client --archive=/

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• s1                           # archive suite s1

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• ecflow_client --archive=/s1/f1 /

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• s2            # archive family /s1/f1 and suite /s2

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• ecflow_client --archive=force /s1 /s2      # archive suites /s1,/s2 even if they have active tasks

Code Block
suite s family f1 autoarchive +01:00 # archive one hour after complete endfamily family f2 autoarchive 01:00 # archive at 1 am in morning after complete endfamily family f3 autoarchive 10 # archive 10 days after complete endfamily family f4 autoarchive 0 # archive immediately after complete endfamily endsuite

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