import data form old cacti installation to a new one

furyro · Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Romania

i have a new cacti installed and i want to import all devices and rrds from an older one. is that possible?

thanks

gandalf · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

Yes. mysqldump the old database and restore it to the new one. You will enter the "cacti upgrade process" when hitting the web page next time.
For the rrd files: copy to new location
But in case on an architecture change: rrdtool dump and restore
Reinhard

furyro · Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Romania

thanks...

indeed there is an architecture change... or so is my apache error log reporting: ERROR: This RRD was created on another architecture...

although the hosts and templates were imported nicely

would you be so kind and give me some pointers regarding rrd dumping and exporting?

streaker69 · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:01 am Post subject:

If you can wait a couple more days, you're welcome to give the Cacti Migration plugin a try. N3ncy and I are almost done with it.

Here's a preview:

furyro · Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Romania

nice...

there's no rush... i'll wait...

thank you

furyro · Joined: 05 Jul 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Romania

any news on the export/import plugin?