Hello, I've done this a few times, and it's never been a problem for me. I make a backup of all of the .dat files in the log directory and the entire reports directory before deleting the .dat and .html files, just in case.
B-- >>> On 10/17/2011 at 1:14 AM, in message <CAKKdN4Wu-eKf6ff29ruVOCC1EUsQgxevVA6GCPgjPi=bqut...@mail.gmail.com>, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Never heard back on this, so I'm re-sending: We had some bad metadata > and didn't realize for a few weeks that our stats scripts were > choking. Now we have a gap in our monthly stats (08/2011, 10/2011... > but no 09/2011!) > > Is clearing the stats and rebuilding from scratch feasible? All the > historical log files are there... > > Thanks! > > Alan > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey, >> >> We noticed recently that our monthly stats hadn't run for the month of >> September. As it turns out, a batch import had imported some items with >> malformed `dc.date.accessioned` date fields, which was causing the stats >> scripts to die. We finally tracked down all the items with these bad >> dates[1], and now the scripts are running successfully, but it seems the >> month of September has gone missing (we have 08/2011 and 10/2011)! >> >> My attempts to fix this are here: http://pastebin.com/9EDX8Vhx >> >> I'm curious, would starting over from `dspace stat-initial` and `dspace >> stat-report-initial` remedy this? All the log files are there, and as far >> as I know the stat scripts process .log -> .dat -> .html (nothing in the >> database or anything. Is there any danger in doing this (other than being >> expensive for the CPU/disk)? >> >> Thanks, >> >> [1] DSpace-tech thread: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15295.html >> >> -- >> Alan Orth >> alan.o...@gmail.com >> http://alaninkenya.org >> "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; >> my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my >> telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
