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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ rdarena, wrarena \- copy arenas between venti servers
.PP
.B venti/rdarena
[
-.B -v
+.B -qv
]
.I arenapart
.I arenaname
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ and writes this arena to standard output.
This command is typically used to back up an arena to external media.
The
.B -v
-option generates more verbose output on standard error.
+option generates more verbose output on standard error;
+.B -q
+generates only errors on standard error.
.PP
.I Wrarena
writes the blocks contained in the arena
@@ -97,10 +99,14 @@ awk '/^end offset/ { print $3 }' offset >last
Of course, one would need to add wrapper code to keep track
of which arenas have been processed.
See
-.B /sys/src/cmd/venti/backup.example
+.B /sys/src/cmd/venti/words/backup.example
for a version that does this.
.SH SOURCE
.B \*9/src/cmd/venti/srv
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR venti (7),
.IR venti (8)
+.SH BUGS
+.I Wrarena
+can't read a pipe or network connection containing an arena;
+it needs a file already containing the entire arena.