Re: [slurm-users] slurmdbd full backup so the primary can be purged

2021-12-13 Thread Paul Edmon
I haven't tested with super ancient versions of Slurm but I know we have uploaded past versions before so we could scrape the data for XDMod.  So as far as I'm aware there is no version limitation, but your mileage may vary with very old versions of Slurm.  To make sure I would probably ping Sc

Re: [slurm-users] slurmdbd full backup so the primary can be purged

2021-12-13 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi Paul, Am I right in assuming that there are going to be some limitations to loading archived data w.r.t. version of slurmdbd used to create the archive and that used to read it? Cheers, Loris Paul Edmon writes: > Files generated by the slurmdbd archive are read back into the live database

Re: [slurm-users] slurmdbd full backup so the primary can be purged

2021-12-10 Thread Paul Edmon
Files generated by the slurmdbd archive are read back into the live database by sacctmgr.  See: archive load Load in to the database previously archived data. The archive file will not be loaded if the records already exist in the database - therefore, trying to load an archive file mor

[slurm-users] slurmdbd full backup so the primary can be purged

2021-12-10 Thread Ransom, Geoffrey M.
Hello Our slurmdbd database is getting rather large and affecting performance, but we want to keep usage data around for a few years for metric purposes in order to figure out how our users work. I read a suggestion to have a backup DB which has all the usage data synced to it for metric pur