[hobbit] Moving RRDs from one version of rrdtool to another

[Charles Jones]

Wow. Yet again I figure something out immediately after I click *send*. 
Looks like I needed to use "dump" instead of "xport". xport was the 
option in the older version, which I thought I had.  :)

-Charles

Charles Jones wrote:
> Indeed...it should be simple, but of course I'm having some unknown 
> problem :)
> # /usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.49/bin/rrdtool xport la.rrd
> ERROR: can't parse 'la.rrd'
> # ls -l la.rrd
> -rw-r--r--    1 hobbit   other       19572 May 29 09:02 la.rrd
>
> I truss'd the command and don't see any reason for it to fail. the 
> last thing that happens before the failure is checking my timezone:
> 18476:  open("/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/US/Arizona", O_RDONLY) = 3
> 18476:  fstat64(3, 0xFFBE68F0)                          = 0
> 18476:  read(3, " T Z i f\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0".., 130)      = 130
> 18476:  close(3)                                        = 0
> 18476:  time()                                          = 1180454799
> 18476:  fstat64(2, 0xFFBE6548)                          = 0
> ERROR: 18476:   write(2, " E R R O R :  ", 7)                   = 7
> can't parse 'la.rrd'18476:      write(2, " c a n ' t   p a r s e  ".., 
> 20)      = 20
>
> Meh.
> -Charles
>
> Charles Goyard wrote:
>> Charles Jones wrote :
>>
>>   
>>> * Now I am assuming that the problem is the difference in the rrdtool 
>>> versions.  I don't really want to roll back to an older version on the 
>>> linux box.
>>>     
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had the same problem, the cause is that Sparc and Intel/PC hardware
>> have different endianess.
>>
>> What I did is what you suggest, dump, copy, restore. The trick is you
>> have to restore on the target host. Installing two versions of rrdtool
>> on the solaris box won't do.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>   
>

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