[Orca-users] how to "go back in time" when orca server was down?

[Dave Lowenstein]

That didn't seem to work. If I read lines from the new orca.state it
mentions the orcallator files that have been added in, but the graphs
haven't changed.

Any Ideas?

Dave Lowenstein
Programmer/Analyst
Instructional Technology Services
San Diego State University
(619)594-0270
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Dave Lowenstein wrote:
> > 
> > I had to remove my orca server (the one that makes the plots) from the
> > network for a while. I have all the orcallator files from the servers that
> > it is making plots for but I can't figure out how to tell my orca server
> > to read a month's worth of files to fill in what it is missing. It only
> > seems to want to make graphs for today's orcallator files and ignores
> > everything from the time period that it was off the network. I'm using the
> > standard orcallator.cfg file which I don't think I changed much if it all.
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Orca should be smart enough to find the old data files and load the
> old data files.
> 
> Try the following
>   1) Stopping Orca
>   2) Move orca.state to orca.state.old
>   3) Run Orca
> 
> Let me know if that works.
> 
> Best,
> Blair
> 
> -- 
> Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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