Tools in the Archive Module

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dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.ReestablishAdminDatabase

This is a tool which is only run when converting from a file based administration of ArcRepository to the database based administration of ArcRepository. It takes the admin.data file and puts it into the database.

Prerequisites

You need to have the external database running, the admin.data file must exist, and the tool must be run from the installation directory of the installation.

Usage

java -Ddk.netarkivet.settings.file=conf/settings_ArcRepositoryApplication.xml dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.ReestablishAdminDatabase [admin.data]

The optional argument [admin.data] is the path to the admin.data file. As default it is assumed that it is called 'admin.data' and it is located in the directory where the tool is run. It is therefore only necessarry if the admin.data is in another directory or called by another name (e.g. backups/admin.data or admin.data.backup).

dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.CreateIndex

This tool forces the IndexServer to create indices. This tool can be used for retrieving logs and cdx'es for previously completed harvestjobs before they are actual needed. This can be helpful if you want to improve the time it takes to generate Deduplication indices.

Prerequisites

You need to have a IndexServerApplication online. If you use HTTP as file transport method, you probably also need to override the settings.common.remoteFile.port in order to avoid conflicts (In the example below, we have set the port number to 5000).

Furthermore all harvestjobs referred to in the CreateIndex commands must have metadata-1.arc files stored in the archive.

Usage

export INSTALLDIR=/fullpath/to/installdir
export CLASSPATH=$INSTALLDIR/lib/dk.netarkivet.archive.jar
cd $INSTALLDIR
java -cp lib/dk.netarkivet.archive.jar -Ddk.netarkivet.settings.file=conf/settings_ArcRepositoryApplication.xml -Dsettings.common.applicationInstanceId=INDEX dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.CreateIndex -t dedup -l 2

This requests a deduplication index based on the harvestjobs with id 2, and stores this index in $INSTALLDIR/DEDUP_CRAWL_LOG/2-cache

dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.GetFile

With this tool you can retrieve a file from your archive.

Prerequisites

If you want to use another arcrepositoryclient than the default (dk.netarkivet.archive.arcrepository.distribute.JMSArcRepositoryClient), you need to override the setting (settings.common.arcrepositoryClient.class). If you do use the default, you need to set the environmentName correctly, so your ArcrepositoryApplication receives your GetFile request, and define your replicas, and the replicaId of the replica where you want to get the data. All this is most easily put into a local settings.xml:

<settings>
 <common>
    <environmentName>QUICKSTART</environmentName>
    <replicas>
            <replica>
                <replicaId>SH</replicaId>
                <replicaType>bitarchive</replicaType>
                <replicaName>SHB</replicaName>
            </replica>
        </replicas>
        <useReplicaId>SH</useReplicaId>
</common></settings>

In the setting.xml above, the environment name have been set to QUICKSTART, you only have a single replica with replicaId=SH, and the Id of the replica where you want to get the data is "SH".

Usage

export INSTALLDIR=/fullpath/to/installdir
export CLASSPATH=$INSTALLDIR/lib/dk.netarkivet.archive.jar
export SETTINGSFILE=/home/user/conf/settings_ArcRepositoryApplication.xml
java -Ddk.netarkivet.settings.file=$SETTINGSFILE -Dsettings.common.applicationInstanceId=GETFILE \
dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.GetFile 3-metadata-1.arc

If the file 3-metadata-1.arc exists in your SH replica, the file is downloaded from the archive, and written to the current working directory. If not, you are going to wait for a long time, until the arcrepository client times out. The tool has an optional second argument, which is a destination file:

export INSTALLDIR=/fullpath/to/installdir
export CLASSPATH=$INSTALLDIR/lib/dk.netarkivet.archive.jar
export SETTINGSFILE=/home/user/conf/settings_ArcRepositoryApplication.xml
java -Ddk.netarkivet.settings.file=$SETTINGSFILE -Dsettings.common.applicationInstanceId=GETFILE \
dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.GetFile 3-metadata-1.arc destination-file.arc

dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.Upload

The tool "dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.Upload" allows one to upload ARC files to a repository of your choice.

The type of arcrepository you are uploading your files to are defined by the setting settings.common.arcrepositoryClient.class, where the default is dk.netarkivet.archive.arcrepository.distribute.JMSArcRepositoryClient. This client uses JMS messages to communicate with a repository.

Prerequisites

If you use the client dk.netarkivet.archive.arcrepository.distribute.JMSArcRepositoryClient, you need to ensure, that you send upload requests to the correct JMS queue, and that you receive the responses from the client. This is ensured by setting the setting settings.common.environmentName to the proper value (e.g. PROD or DEV). The same holds for the setting settings.common.applicationName (e.g. Upload), and finally "settings.common.applicationInstanceId" (e.g. ONE or TWO) If you intend to override any of the settings mentioned above, you can either do the overrides on the commandline or writing the overrides to a settings file.

Using the tool

This tool will upload a number of local files to all replicas in the archive. An example of an execution command is:

   java -Ddk.netarkivet.settings.file=/home/user/conf/settings_ArcRepositoryApplication.xml \
        -cp lib/dk.netarkivet.archive.jar -Dsettings.common.applicationInstanceId=UPLOAD\
        dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.Upload \
        file1.arc [file2.arc ...]

where file1.arc [file2.arc ...] is the files to be uploaded

This will cause the files to be uploaded. The behaviour of the default client (JMSArcRepositoryClient) is furthermore, that if a file is uploaded successfully, it is deleted locally. This means that if there are files left after execution, these files are not known to be stored safely.

If several independent uploads are performed at the same time, they should have different value for the 'settings.common.applicationInstanceId' (e.g. UPLOAD1, UPLOAD2, ...).

dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.GetRecord

This tool takes a CDX based lucene-index, and an URI, and retrieves the corresponding ARC-record from the archive, and dumps it to stdout.

Prerequisites

The same as for getFile.

Usage

export INSTALLDIR=/fullpath/to/installdir
export CLASSPATH=$INSTALLDIR/lib/dk.netarkivet.archive.jar
export SETTINGSFILE=/home/user/conf/settings_ArcRepositoryApplication.xml
export LUCENE_INDEX=/tmp/cache/DEDUP_CRAWL_LOG/1-cache
export URI=http://www.netarkivet.dk
java -Ddk.netarkivet.settings.file=$SETTINGSFILE -Dsettings.common.applicationInstanceId=RECORD \
        dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.GetRecord $LUCENE_INDEX $URI

If the URI is not in the given index, an exception is sent to stdout with the message: Resource missing in index or repository for URI TODO: Mention how to make an luceneindex for your stored arcfiles.

dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.RunBatch

The bitarchives are designed to receive batch-programs to run on all the arc-files stored in the bitarchive. This is true no matter whether the bitarchive is installed as a local arc-repository or a distributed repository with several bitarchives. Batch programs are also used internally by the NetarchiveSuite software to do specific tasks like getting a CDX'es for a specific job, or checksums of arc-files stored in the bitarchive, or lists of arc-files from the bitarchive.

The RunBatch program is used to send your own batchjobs to the bitarchives.

Note that a batchjob will only be sent to one bitarchive replica!

It is not possible to send batchjobs to checksum replicas. Only bitarchive replicas can handle batchjobs.

Prerequisites for running a batch job

A number of prerequisites must be taken care of before a batch job can be executed. These are:

Execution and Arguments

The execution of a batch program is done by calling the dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.RunBatch program with the following arguments:

If the batch program is given in a single class file, this must be specified in the parameter:

If the batch program is given in one or more jar files, this must be specified in the parameters:

To specify which files the batch program must be executed on, the following parameters may be set optionally

To specify output files from the batch program, the following parameters may be set optionally

An example of an execution command is:

which will take in lib/dk.netarkivet.archive.jar in the class path and execute the general NetarchiveSuite program dk.netarkivet.archive.tools.RunBatch based on settings from file /home/user/conf/settings_ArcRepositoryApplication.xml. This will result in running the batch program FindMime.class on the bitarchive replica named ReplicaOne, but only on files with names matching the pattern 10-*.arc. The results written by the batch program is concatenated and placed in the output file named resfile.

It is always a good idea to use a unique value for the 'settings.common.applicationInstanceId' for each batchjob (especially when running multiple batchjobs at once), since other applications could be listening on the same JMS-channels and thus receive the reply-message. This has previously caused confusion, since the application, which receives the batchjob reply, did not expect the reply and thus ignores it, causing the tool to never receiving the reply and thus never finish.

Example of packing and executing a batch job

To package the files do the following:

jar -cvf batchfile.jar path/batchProgram.class

where path is the path to the directory where the batch class files are placed. This is under the bin/ directory in the eclipse project. The batchProgram.class is the compiled file for your batch program.

The call to run this batch job is then:

where path in the -N argument has all '/' changed to '.'.

E.g. to run the batch job from the file myBatchJobs/arc/MyArcBatchJob.java, which inherits the ARCBatchJob class (dk/netarkivet/common/utils/arc/ARCBatchJob), do the following.

The lib/dk.netarkivet.common.jar library need to be included in the classpath since the batch job (myBatchJobs/arc/MyArcBatchJob) inherits from a class within this library (dk/netarkivet/common/utils/arc/ARCBatchJob).

Security

If the security properties for the bitarchive (independent of this execution) are set as described in the Configuration Manual the batch program will not be allowed to:

Outstanding Issues

As it will be described in archive assignment B.2.4, there are plans to make logging of internal logs and exceptions from batch jobs better. The only way to code internal logging today is to write to the output of the batch program.

If the batch job today is running at a time when not all bitarchives (i.e. BitarchiveApplications) are online, this will not be discovered by the NetarchiveSuite software. As described in archive assignment B.2.2 there are plans to change this at a later stage.

Additional Tools Manual 3.14/Tools in Archive Module (last edited 2010-09-30 11:27:47 by TueLarsen)