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NAME
seivot - benchmark backup application (obnam)
SYNOPSIS
seivot [--benchmark-fsck] [--config=FILE] [--description=TEXT] [--drop-caches] [--dump-config] [--dump-memory-profile=METHOD]
[--dump-setting-names] [--encrypt-with=KEYID] [--file-size=SIZE] [--generate-manpage=TEMPLATE] [--generations=COUNT] [-h] [--help]
[--incremental-data=SIZE] [--initial-data=SIZE] [--larch-branch=LARCH-BRANCH] [--list-config-files] [--log=FILE] [--log-keep=N]
[--log-level=LEVEL] [--log-max=SIZE] [--log-mode=MODE] [--no-default-configs] [--obnam-branch=OBNAM-BRANCH] [--obnam-config=FILE]
[--obnam-profile=NAMEPATTERN] [--output=FILE] [--profile-name=PROFILE-NAME] [--program=PROGRAM] [--sftp-delay=SFTP-DELAY]
[--use-existing=DIR] [--use-sftp-repository] [--use-sftp-root] [--verify] [--version] [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
seivot benchmarks a backup application. It has been written primarily for obnam(1), but could be extended for other backup applications.
seivot generates some live data using genbackupdata(1), and then runs the backup application. It then generates some more live data, and
runs a second backup generation, etc. It stores the measurements in an output file. See seivots-summary(1) for a tool to show data from
such files in a tabular fashion. (seivot does not itself show the tabular data, because one is rarely interested in the output from just
one run, and instead wants to contrast it with other runs).
OPTIONS
--benchmark-fsck
benchmark fsck?
--config=FILE
add FILE to config files
--description=TEXT
free-form description of this backup run
--drop-caches
clear Linux kernel cache before running commands (will ask for sudo pasword
--dump-config
write out the entire current configuration
--dump-memory-profile=METHOD
make memory profiling dumps using METHOD, which is one of: none, simple, meliae, or heapy (default: simple)
--dump-setting-names
write out all names of settings and quit
--encrypt-with=KEYID
encrypt backups with KEYID
--file-size=SIZE
size of files to create
--generate-manpage=TEMPLATE
fill in manual page TEMPLATE
--generations=COUNT
total number of generations to measure (5)
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
--incremental-data=SIZE
add SIZE live data for additional generations (1024)
--initial-data=SIZE
size of initial live data (1024)
--larch-branch=LARCH-BRANCH
bzr branch from which to use larch (default is installed larch)
--list-config-files
list all possible config files
--log=FILE
write log entries to FILE (default is to not write log files at all); use "syslog" to log to system log, or "none" to disable log-
ging
--log-keep=N
keep last N logs (10)
--log-level=LEVEL
log at LEVEL, one of debug, info, warning, error, critical, fatal (default: debug)
--log-max=SIZE
rotate logs larger than SIZE, zero for never (default: 0)
--log-mode=MODE
set permissions of new log files to MODE (octal; default 0600)
--no-default-configs
clear list of configuration files to read
--obnam-branch=OBNAM-BRANCH
bzr branch from which to run obnam (default is installed obnam)
--obnam-config=FILE
use FILE as an Obnam configuration file
--obnam-profile=NAMEPATTERN
store Python profiling output in files named after NAMEPATTERN (no profiling, unless set); %(foo)s in pattern gets filled in, where
foo is op (for backup/restore/etc), gen, or order (cumulative/time)
--output=FILE
write output to FILE, instead of standard output
--profile-name=PROFILE-NAME
name of backup use-case profile name (for documentation purposes only)
--program=PROGRAM
program to benchmark (obnam)
--sftp-delay=SFTP-DELAY
add an artificial delay (in milliseconds) to all SFTP transfers
--use-existing=DIR
use exiting DIR for initial generation
--use-sftp-repository
access backup repository over the network via sftp
--use-sftp-root
access backup repository over the network via sftp
--verify
verify restored data
--version
show program's version number and exit
EXAMPLE
To run a simple benchmark:
seivot --initial-data=10G --incremental-data=1G
SEE ALSO
seivots-summary(1), obnam(1).
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