[hobbit] Moved Hobbit to a new server, and now the Graphs have disappeared.

[Husemann, Harald]

Hi Brian,

okay, than this is a new feature, :-). Yes, just dump the contents to a 
file, as you wrote in your mail.

hh

Brian O'Mahony schrieb:
> Harald
> 
> When I run this on the old server it outputs the xml file, rather than creating the file -- It is rrdtool 1.2.11 - The version on the new server is 1.2.30
> 
> Should I be dumping this to a file? Ie rrdtool dump tcp.conn.rrd > tcp.conn.xml
> 
> B
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Husemann, Harald [mailto:Harald.Husemann at materna.de] 
> Sent: 07 April 2009 18:06
> To: Brian O'Mahony
> Cc: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Moved Hobbit to a new server, and now the Graphs have disappeared.
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> you use "rrdtool dump <filename>.rrd <filename>.xml" to dump the 
> contents of the RRD <filename>.rrd to the XML file <filename>.xml. 
> Execute this for all RRDs on the old machine, and copy the .xml-files to 
> the new one.
> Then, with "rrdtool restore <filename>.xml <filename>.rrd" rebuild the 
> RRDs from the XMLs on the new machine.
> 
> hh
> 
> Brian O'Mahony schrieb:
>> Having never used rrdtool. Other than for hobbit, how do I go about dumping and restoring? 
>> And yes it was architecture change from a dell 2850, to a VM. I think I also updated the version of rrdtool.
>> I still have the old server so can do this from the console.
>>
>> Thanks for the help BTW
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Husemann, Harald [mailto:Harald.Husemann at materna.de] 
>> Sent: 07 April 2009 16:38
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Cc: Brian O'Mahony
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Moved Hobbit to a new server, and now the Graphs have disappeared.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> another possible reason could be different versions of RRDTool (which 
>> can also be solved by dumping and restoring the RRDs, as suggested by 
>> Buchan).
>>
>> hh
>>
>> Buchan Milne schrieb:
>>> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 14:05:39 Brian O'Mahony wrote:
>>>> I moved from rhel3 to a rhel5 machine
>>> Are there any other differences? E.g., i386 vs x86_64 ?
>>>
>>>> , as I was moving everything else on
>>>> the box also. I recompiled hobbit (4.2.0) on the machine, and just copied
>>>> over the files. However the graphs and graph history are missing. I moved
>>>> the /home/hobbit directory and installed a fresh copy -- graphs are
>>>> visibl;e.
>>> I'm guessing the architectures differ, and you didn't dump/reload the rrd files 
>>> (which is required if you change architectures, e.g. i386 to x86_64).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Buchan
>>>
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