On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Ofer Inbar wrote:
> With Matthias' method, you could add some more lines to the portion > of /etc/init.d/gmetad that creates /dev/shm/rrds, to then rsync your > RRDs from disk. That shouldn't interface with later restarts because > if the directory already exists, it won't rsync. If you've done this, > have you run into any problems? > Right, so before you start gematd you need to restore the RRD archive from disk to /dev/shm/rrds, and after you stop gmetad you need to save data away. So for save you can simply go ahead and tar everything under /dev/shm/rrds and put it somewhere on disk, say under /var/lib/ganglia/snapshots. Then before you start gmetad in the init script you simply untar the snap shot back to /dev/shm/rrds/. I hope this adds the last piece to the puzzle. Regards, Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
