[Xymon] how to migrate historical data

[Kris Springer]

That worked.  I completely forgot about the folders needing that.
Signature - Kris

Thank you.

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Kris Springer



On 8/26/2014 9:23 PM, Phil Crooker wrote:
> You need to use -r to recursively copy.
>
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> 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.
>
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> Kris Springer
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> 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
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