Re: How to get out of snapshot mode?

On Monday 20 March 2006 14:08, Ed Leafe wrote:
> 	My Zope instance crashed the other day after running out of disk  
> space on the server (unrelated problem). I've gotten everything back  
> up and running now, but it seems that DirectoryStorage is stuck in  
> snapshot mode. I cannot run backup or pack or anything; I just get an  
> error.  If I try to run snapshot.py, I get:
> 
> [ed@marge DirectoryStorage]$ python snapshot.py -v --storage /usr/ 
> zopestorage/
> DirectoryStorageError: Could not lock storage directory. See http:// 
> dirstorage.sourceforge.net/snapshot.html
> 
> 	The setup had been working fine for over a year until this crash, so  
> I know that the snapshot.conf file is set up correctly. How do I  
> force it out of snapshot mode?

Restarting the storage server is the easy option.

You can force it out of snapshot mode manually without a restart, using the 
ZMI and DirectoryStorageToolkit instance.... The management page for the 
toolkit lists the snapshot lock code. It will look something like 
"user/xxxxxx", then browse to htt 
p://xxxx/DirectoryStorageToolkit/leave_snapshot?code=user/xxxxxx
(but substituting the real lock code you saw in the management page)

Both of those options will fail if you still have a stale backup (or other) 
process lying around holding a lock open on the misc/sublock file.

I hope this helps.

-- 
Toby Dickenson

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