[Glass] Can newExtent accept zipped extents?

[Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dale,
>
> I have one me my stones outside gsDevKit with a large size (55GB). I am
> moving this stone to be gsDevKit managed and the first thing I must do is
> this:
>
> createStone -fg -U $stoneUsername -P $stonePass -s
> /quuve/sites/$sourceStoneName/gemstone/data/extent0.dbf $sourceStoneName
> 3.2.9
>
> The problem is that underneath it uses `newExtent`  to copy the dbf. See
> this code in `newExtent`:
>
>  echo "Copy snapshot and remove tranlogs"
>   $GS_HOME/bin/devKitCommandLine newExtent $stoneName $snapshotFile
>
>
> That means...I would need yet another 55GB free (without couting the
> backups when tODE is installed..which I know how to avoid), which I don't
> have.
>
> Is it possible for " $GS_HOME/bin/devKitCommandLine newExtent " to accept
> compressed (gz) dbf?  That way, I can compress my original and pass the
> .gz.dbf.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>

Actually, I would be able to pass both:

1) a zip of the extent0.dbf
2) the result of SystemRepository fullBackupCompressedTo:

Thanks

-- 
Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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