[Orca-users] Re: Retain Data For Extended Periods

[a_solaris_guy]

--- In orca-discuss at y..., Darren Dunham <ddunham at t...> wrote:
> > 
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm just beginning to get my head wrapped around a farily large 
> > installation of ORCA and my first issue is that I'd like to 
retain / 
> > chart data for longer than 1 year. Is this a configuration of 
orca,  
> > rrd, or both.
> 
> Well, while ORCA uses the raw data and plugs it into RRD for 
graphing,
> it doesn't explicitly remove it.  It might be a good idea for you to
> simply retain the raw data for at least a year.  Remove it after 
that
> time.  This would take a bit of disk space, but is technically 
simple.
> 
> That way if you have any problems with the RRDs, or you want to 
remove
> them or see detailed data for some months in the past, you can 
remove
> the rrd and rerun orca against the original data.
> 
> -- 
> Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at t...
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Company
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OK, tks for the quick response. So, if all data is held indefinately 
until I purge it, is it a matter of configuring ??SOMETHING?? to 
allow me to be able to display data from the beginning (long than one 
year)?

What I'm really going for is to extend the data graphs to include not 
only "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthly", "Quarterly", and "Yearly", but 
also "2 Years", "3 Years", and potentially "All".

Any further thoughts appreciated.