[hobbit] Moving to new Hobbit server

ZanDAhaR allan at zandahar.net
Thu Mar 2 06:49:22 CET 2006


Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> On 2/28/06, ZanDAhaR <allan at zandahar.net> wrote:
>   
>> Ok cool so basically the graphs stop updating if theyre NQR after the move,
>> I guess thats pretty effortless to test, move a host onto the new box and
>> come back in a day and see what happens I suppose.
>>     
>
> I think you could find out sooner than that - just copy an rrd over to
> the new system and try to dump it:
>
>      rrdtool dump datafile.rrd
>
> If you get XML, it's probably all good.  If it complains, you need to
> do the export at the original host and import it on the new host.  I
> just copied an rrd over from a Sparc system to an x86 system, and
> rrdtool dump tells me:
>
>    *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0804a170 ***
>    Abort
>
> whereas doing the same with a locally-created rrd I get a stream of
> xml.  Likewise, going back to the original system I can dump the
> original file just fine.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
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>   
I would definately expect possible issues between a sun box and an x86 box

Have just tested the dump on a few files and they all spewed out some 
nice xml so should be all good :)
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