Hi all: I need to backup a couple of thousand rrd files that are updated every 5 minutes. and I don't want to shut down the update process while the backup is going on.
I am planning on using rsync, but the question is is that safe? The rrdtool dump and restore commands export the data to an xml format file and there are a couple of web pages that refer to this as a 'backup' of the rrd file. I assume that by using rrdtool dump, it will act just like a reader would and give me something consistant that I could use to restore the rrd even if the file was in the process of being updated. The question is if I just copy the binary file (.rrd), can I end up with something that rrdtool will think is corrupted? For my purposes loosing one or more data values that are being updated at the time of the backup is ok, but I don't want to lose the structure of the rrd file. So as long as I can restore the rrd file and have rrdtool keep updating the file I will be satisfied. Thanks for any info. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard =========================================================================== My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users