Hi Alan, That's right, Tomcat won't need to be restarted. The stats scripts do access the database to get titles of items, but it doesn't alter anything, so there should be no side effects. I'd say good luck, but you won't need it, big smile.
B-- >>> On 10/18/2011 at 1:11 AM, in message <CAKKdN4VFfghmNyeB6pK8TC2JxcOGLTQnp=pjc0ugacmz7le...@mail.gmail.com>, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brian, > > Thanks for the vote of confidence. I'll give this a try tonight when > our servers aren't as busy. > > Another question, there's nothing that gets modified in the database > when this happens, so I shouldn't need to restart Tomcat, right? > > Thanks, > > Alan > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Brian Freels-Stendel <bfre...@unm.edu> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've done this a few times, and it's never been a problem for me. I make a > backup of all of the .dat files in the log directory and the entire reports > directory before deleting the .dat and .html files, just in case. >> >> B-- >> >>>>> On 10/17/2011 at 1:14 AM, in message >> <CAKKdN4Wu-eKf6ff29ruVOCC1EUsQgxevVA6GCPgjPi=bqut...@mail.gmail.com>, Alan >> Orth >> <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Never heard back on this, so I'm re-sending: We had some bad metadata >>> and didn't realize for a few weeks that our stats scripts were >>> choking. Now we have a gap in our monthly stats (08/2011, 10/2011... >>> but no 09/2011!) >>> >>> Is clearing the stats and rebuilding from scratch feasible? All the >>> historical log files are there... >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Alan >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hey, >>>> >>>> We noticed recently that our monthly stats hadn't run for the month of >>>> September. As it turns out, a batch import had imported some items with >>>> malformed `dc.date.accessioned` date fields, which was causing the stats >>>> scripts to die. We finally tracked down all the items with these bad >>>> dates[1], and now the scripts are running successfully, but it seems the >>>> month of September has gone missing (we have 08/2011 and 10/2011)! >>>> >>>> My attempts to fix this are here: http://pastebin.com/9EDX8Vhx >>>> >>>> I'm curious, would starting over from `dspace stat-initial` and `dspace >>>> stat-report-initial` remedy this? All the log files are there, and as far >>>> as I know the stat scripts process .log -> .dat -> .html (nothing in the >>>> database or anything. Is there any danger in doing this (other than being >>>> expensive for the CPU/disk)? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> [1] DSpace-tech thread: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15295.html >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Alan Orth >>>> alan.o...@gmail.com >>>> http://alaninkenya.org >>>> "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; >>>> my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my >>>> telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
