Cumulative table support

Tools for concatenating per-volume tables into cumulative tables.

create_cumulative_indexes(template_name: str, volumes: list[str] | None = None, args: Namespace | None = None, exclude: list[str] | None = None) → None

Create the cumulative files for a collection of volumes.

Parameters:

• template_name – Name of index template.

• volumes – List of volume ids to process. Overrides args.volumes.

• args – Parsed arguments.

• exclude – List of volumes to exclude.

get_args(host: str | None = None, exclude: list[str] | None = None) → ArgumentParser

Argument parser for cumulative metadata.

Parameters:

• host – Host name, e.g. ‘GOISS’.

• exclude – List of volumes to exclude.

Returns:

Parser containing the argument specifications.