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 <[email protected]> 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 > <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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/[email protected]/msg15295.html >>> >>> -- >>> Alan Orth >>> [email protected] >>> 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++ >>> >>> >> > > -- Alan Orth [email protected] http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke "In heaven all the interesting people are missing." -Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
