[hobbit] Moving RRDs from one version of rrdtool to another
Charles Jones
jonescr at cisco.com
Tue May 29 18:22:31 CEST 2007
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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