how to migrate historical data
list Kris Springer
I've built a second Xymon server that I plan to use as my primary, but I need to pull all the historical data from the old one. What's a quick way to do that? Can I just add the new server's IP into a config file and have the old one just pump all the data over? Signature - Kris Thank you. Kris Springer
list Stef Coene
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On Tuesday 26 August 2014 09:33:18 Kris Springer wrote:
I've built a second Xymon server that I plan to use as my primary, but I need to pull all the historical data from the old one. What's a quick way to do that? Can I just add the new server's IP into a config file and have the old one just pump all the data over?
Just copy the data directory. If the rrd's are not compatibel (32 bit -> 64 bit) you can export the rrd to xml on the old server, transfer the xml file and import the xml to an rrd. I juist did that for one of our customers :) Stef
list Kris Springer
I tried using scp to copy the following directories over to the new server. /var/lib/xymon/hist/ /var/lib/xymon/histlogs/ /var/lib/xymon/rrd/ But I keep getting 'not a regular file' errors on the rrd and histlogs files. I need the rrd data. The graphs are really all I care about.
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Thank you.
Kris Springer
On 8/26/2014 12:12 PM, Stef Coene wrote:On Tuesday 26 August 2014 09:33:18 Kris Springer wrote:I've built a second Xymon server that I plan to use as my primary, but I need to pull all the historical data from the old one. What's a quick way to do that? Can I just add the new server's IP into a config file and have the old one just pump all the data over?Just copy the data directory. If the rrd's are not compatibel (32 bit -> 64 bit) you can export the rrd to xml on the old server, transfer the xml file and import the xml to an rrd. I juist did that for one of our customers :) Stef
list Phil Crooker
You need to use -r to recursively copy. cheers, P
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From: Xymon on behalf of Kris Springer
Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2014 1:41 PM
To: Stef Coene; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] how to migrate historical data
I tried using scp to copy the following directories over to the new server.
/var/lib/xymon/hist/
/var/lib/xymon/histlogs/
/var/lib/xymon/rrd/
But I keep getting 'not a regular file' errors on the rrd and histlogs files. I need the rrd data. The graphs are really all I care about.
Thank you.
Kris Springer
On 8/26/2014 12:12 PM, Stef Coene wrote:
On Tuesday 26 August 2014 09:33:18 Kris Springer wrote:
I've built a second Xymon server that I plan to use as my primary, but I
need to pull all the historical data from the old one. What's a quick
way to do that? Can I just add the new server's IP into a config file
and have the old one just pump all the data over?
Just copy the data directory.
If the rrd's are not compatibel (32 bit -> 64 bit) you can export the rrd to
xml on the old server, transfer the xml file and import the xml to an rrd. I
juist did that for one of our customers :)
Stef
list Kris Springer
That worked. I completely forgot about the folders needing that.
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Signature - Kris
Thank you.
Kris Springer
On 8/26/2014 9:23 PM, Phil Crooker wrote:You need to use -r to recursively copy. • cheers, P • ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Xymon on behalf of Kris Springer *Sent:* Wednesday, 27 August 2014 1:41 PM *To:* Stef Coene; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] how to migrate historical data I tried using scp to copy the following directories over to the new server. /var/lib/xymon/hist/ /var/lib/xymon/histlogs/ /var/lib/xymon/rrd/ But I keep getting 'not a regular file' errors on the rrd and histlogs files. I need the rrd data. The graphs are really all I care about. Thank you. Kris Springer On 8/26/2014 12:12 PM, Stef Coene wrote:On Tuesday 26 August 2014 09:33:18 Kris Springer wrote:I've built a second Xymon server that I plan to use as my primary, but I need to pull all the historical data from the old one. What's a quick way to do that? Can I just add the new server's IP into a config file and have the old one just pump all the data over?Just copy the data directory. If the rrd's are not compatibel (32 bit -> 64 bit) you can export the rrd to xml on the old server, transfer the xml file and import the xml to an rrd. I juist did that for one of our customers :) Stef