MRTdump (Was: Re: New in BIRD)

[Job Snijders]

Hi,

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread like this, but I was wondering
whether any progress has been made for automatic MRT dump file rotation?

I believe there is a patch, and i thought it would be merged into 1.6.0
- but than little happened :(

The use case is that I have a big route collector with 41,000,000 routes
in RIB, which i'd like to dump into long term archives for research
purposes, but without file rotation that will be hard to do.

Kind regards,

Job

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 08:57:39AM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
> 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