[Orca-users] moving orca input files

[Blair Zajac]

RJNiesz at dstoutput.com wrote:
> 
> OK, so I guess I took the long way around the block. That's about par 
> for me  :)
> 
> But I did not ever delete the rrd files on the new server after running 
> orca for the fiorst time with all the old data files. This is what I did
> 
> Installed new server
> Installed orca and all the supporting software
> moved all old orcallator files from all clients to new orca server
> ran orca

When you say orcallator files, just to be clear, these are different than the 
rrd files.  Did you copy these over also?

> deleted all old orcallator files
> 
> At this point I had all my historical data back and all the graphs were 
> current
> 
> At about midnight last night all the clients transferred a new 
> orcallator file to the new orca server, and shortly after that had 
> completed the new orca server kicked off orca once again. Once it had 
> completed, all the graphs showed was the data from yesterday. All the 
> old data was gone.

Very odd.  I would run orca with the -v -v -v command line options and log the 
output to see what happened.

> I'll go through this process again to make sure I did not blow it 
> somewhere. Although this time I will just move over the rrd files. I'll 
> let you all know how it goes.

Great.

Thanks,
Blair