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<div>RRD files are not (yet) portable between architectures, although Tobi has indicated that this is planned in a future version of RRDTool (v1.5 maybe?)</div>
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<div>This means between big- and little- endian, or between 32 and 64 bit. So, you cannot copy an RRD file between Windows and Linux (for example), or between 32bit Linux and 64bit linux. There is even potentially a differrence depending on what C compiler was used to compile the rrdtool binary although this is unlikely.</div>
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<div>Also, there is no forwards-compatibility between the RRD files generated by v1.0.x and later versions -- IE, an old 1.0.x RRDTool cannot read an RRD file generated by a 1.2.x RRDTool.</div>
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<div>The only way to convert the files is to do an RRDtool export and then import the XML data to create a new RRD file on the target machine. This is relatively simple, and uses the 'rrdtool export' and 'rrdtool import' functions (see the rrdtool manual for details).</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><strong>Steve Shipway</strong></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px">University of Auckland ITS</div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><em>UNIX Systems Design Lead</em></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</a></div>
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 13px">Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487</div>
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<div class="PlainText"><strong></strong><br>Now the display doesn't show me graphs - instead it tells me the RRD was<br>created on another architecture. But _which_ architecture? Is it the<br>hardware/cpu? Is it a 32/64 bit problem? Or simply a RRDtool problem<br>with the differrent versions?<br><br>If it's the later - will my datafiles get lost if upgrading the collector?<br><br></div></span></font></div></body></html>