Quoting Joe Thornton <[email protected]>:
I'm new to Evergreen and to this list so I apologize in advance if this issue has been discussed already (I did look). I installed Evergreen successfully on a test server with 16GB RAM and about 200GB of disk -- in two partitions.
Is this for production use or are you just kicking the tires at this point?
We have: Debian 7 Postgres 9.1 (not on a remote server) Evergreen 2.4 To migrate bib records from our SirsiDynix Horizon database I used this document: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.4/_migrating_your_bibliographic_records.html
I migrated our Horizon system to Evergreen in 2011. Here is the software that resulted: http://git.mvlcstaff.org/?p=jason/hz2eg.git;a=summary
You might find it useful, you might not, but it is there.
The process was interrupted a few times by serious errors, but eventually I ended up with 550k bib records in the staging_records_import table. The real problems started when I ran SELECT staging_importer(); The first time it stopped after many hours because it ran out of disk space. Postgres was using the smaller partition for data so I changed it to use the larger partition (~135GB) and restarted the job. This time it ran over the weekend and then ran out of disk space again. Although this seems very strange to me, I started it again and this time the staging_records_import table has about 160k records in it. I started SELECT staging_importer(); yesterday (about 24 hours ago) and it's still running and has used more than 50GB of disk so far. Am I missing a step (or steps), or is this normal?
I've done/helped with a few migrations and to be honest, I've not had much success using the stock import tools. I generally do things differently.
I do suspect, however, that you are going to need more disk space for your database. If you intend to use this in production, you will definitely want a more powerful database server that is on separate hardware from that which runs your Evergreen services.
Thanks, Joe Thornton Manager, Automation Services Upper Hudson Library System 28 Essex Street Albany, NY 12206 518-437-9880 x230
-- Jason Stephenson Assistant Director for Technology Services Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
