This looks like a useful script. Can we add it to the contrib area in the Ganglia repository?
Brad >>> On 5/21/2008 at 9:51 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jason A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few years ago I had put a script on ganglia's bugzilla that modifies > the rrd files to do a few simple things, like change the heartbeat value > and change the number of RRAs, see: > > http://bugzilla.ganglia.info/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33 > > Since we are in the process of moving our gmetad server from an old > 32-bit server to a new 64-bit server, I also needed the ability to move > the rrd files, which meant dumping and restoring them, so I added this > feature to the old script that I had from before. It is attached to > this email in case anyone else might find it useful. > > ~Jason > > > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 08:10 -0700, Witham, Timothy D wrote: >> >There may be a workaround thought: if you use 'rrdtool dump', you will >> >get a (large) XML file with all of the data. You should be able to >> >then use 'rrdtool restore' to read this back into the new .rrd file. >> >> But since you probably have hundreds or thousands of rrd files, you need >> some automation. So use a script like the below saved as dumprestore. >> Run "dumprestore dump | /bin/sh" from your rrd_rootdir on the old >> system. This will write a .xml for each .rrd. Then rsync all the .xml >> files to new machine and run "dumprestore restore | /bin/sh". After you >> confirm it is working you can find . -name '*.xml' -exec rm -f {} \; to >> clean up. >> >> -twitham >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> >> use warnings; >> >> sub oops { >> die "$0 dump|restore\n"; >> } >> my $what = shift @ARGV or &oops; >> my $in = 0; >> $in = 'rrd' if $what eq 'dump'; >> $in = 'xml' if $what eq 'restore'; >> &oops unless $in; >> >> open PIPE, "find . -name '*.$in' -print |" or die $!; >> while (<PIPE>) { >> chomp; >> my $in = $_; >> my $out = $in; >> $out =~ s/\.rrd$/\.xml/ or $out =~ s/\.xml$/\.rrd/; >> print "rrdtool $what $in ", $out =~ /xml$/ ? '> ' : '', "$out\n"; >> print "touch -r $in $out\n"; >> } >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Ganglia-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
