MRTdump (Was: Re: New in BIRD)

[Job Snijders]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:21:01PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:42:04PM +0900, Ilias Pallikarakis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I figured out that my problem was simply not configuring BIRD for  
> > multihop neighbour.
> > I have, however, another question if someone would care to answer. From my
> > search so far I came to the conclusion that in BIRD you cannot mrtdump  
> > to more
> > than one file (per process) and that it is still not possible to  
> > periodically dump a
> > table. Is that correct ?
> 
> That is true. MRTdump was on border of my interests but it could be
> easily extended. What features w.r.t. MRTdump would be considered
> useful?

Automatic file rollover would be a great feature!

Have the BIRD process periodically (say every hour) close the MRT file,
and open a new one with a new filename which has the date in it.
Bonuspoints for making these intervals configurable :-)

Kind regards,

Job