[Developers] IO::recover = autoprobe

[Luca Baiotti]

Erik Schnetter wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007, at 19:38:37, Luca Baiotti wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have used (by mistake) the following settings:
>>
>> IO::recover                             = autoprobe
>> IO::recover_dir                         = "checkpoint"
>> IO::recover_file                        = "checkpoint.chkpt.it_83200"
>>
>> while I should have used
>>
>> IO::recover                             = manual
>>
>>
>> However, what should be the behaviour in this case? I think it should
>> check whether the specified checkpoint file exist and, in case the
>> checkpoint file was found, recover from it or, otherwise, start from
>> initial data. But I have experienced a different behaviour, namely that
>> the run started from initial data, even if the checkpoint file existed
>> in the specified directory.
>>
>> Could some developer please check?
> 
> 
> With autoprobe, the parameter recover_file is ignored.  Cactus is 
> supposed to look into recover_dir and restart from the latest checkpoint 
> found there.  If there is no checkpoint, it is supposed to start from 
> scratch.
> 
> I am using the autoprobe feature regularly, and it works fine for me.
> 
> There could have been something wrong with the checkpoint files or with 
> the specification of the directory.  Do you still have the output from 
> the run, which should contain explanatory comments of the recovery 
> routine about whether it found checkpoint files and what it was going to 
> do?

Hi Erik,

I attach the stdout, where, however, I cannot see relevant messages from 
CarpetIOHDF5.


Ciao

Luca

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