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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This looks weird and not at all what should happen. Doing a restore followed by a dump should result in an identical XML file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Can you give the exact list of commands you use to duplicate this, and maybe a copy of the initially dumped XML file if possible, so someone can try to duplicate? Also, any info about the server on which this is occurring (OS, version of RRDTool, 32/64bits etc) would help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve Shipway</span></b><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>ITS Unix Services Design Lead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>University of Auckland, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Floor 1, 58 Symonds Street, Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> rrd-users-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:rrd-users-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mickael GARNIER<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 15 November 2012 2:17 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch<br><b>Subject:</b> [rrd-users] Pb with unit when dump and restore on the same server<br><b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have a problem with rrdtool dump and restore and the same server (pb was first detected also when converting from 32b to 64b).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>When I dump a RRD file made by PNP4NAGIOS Disk_space_C.rrd with the command ‘rrdtool dump Disk_space_C.rrd Disk_space_C.rrd.xml’, I get an XML file (Disk_space_C.rrd .xml) with values like that :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <database><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <!-- 2012-11-12 12:13:00 CET / 1352718780 --> <row><v> 7.1210000000e+03 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <!-- 2012-11-12 12:14:00 CET / 1352718840 --> <row><v> 7.1210000000e+03 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <!-- 2012-11-12 12:15:00 CET / 1352718900 --> <row><v> 7.1210000000e+03 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <!-- 2012-11-12 12:16:00 CET / 1352718960 --> <row><v> 7.1210000000e+03 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=FR><!-- 2012-11-12 12:17:00 CET / 1352719020 --> <row><v> 7.1210000000e+03 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The values are in MB, and there is 7121 MB free on the server.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Then, I restore the XML file with the command ‘rrdtool restore Disk_space_C.rrd.xml Disk_space_C.rrd’, and dump it another time with the same command as above, and get another XML file with values like that :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <database><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <!-- 2012-11-12 12:13:00 CET / 1352718780 --> <row><v> 7.0000000000e+00 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <!-- 2012-11-12 12:14:00 CET / 1352718840 --> <row><v> 7.0000000000e+00 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <!-- 2012-11-12 12:15:00 CET / 1352718900 --> <row><v> 7.0000000000e+00 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <!-- 2012-11-12 12:16:00 CET / 1352718960 --> <row><v> 7.0000000000e+00 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=FR><!-- 2012-11-12 12:17:00 CET / 1352719020 --> <row><v> 7.0000000000e+00 </v></row><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>My problem is that in the new file, the values in the new dump are not the same unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In the first file, the unit is MB. In the second file, it seems to be in GB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The RRD files are coming from PNP4NAGIOS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Can you explain me why the units are different ? I expect the second file would be the same as the first !<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Indeed, with the new restore RRD database, I cannot have a good graph because the new values inserted by pnp4nagios come again in MB. So I have old values at 7 and new at 7121.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks for your answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Mickael GARNIER | Pôle Projets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>10 rue du petit Chatelier - CS 50324 - 44303 Nantes Cedex 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>Standard : +33 (0)2 40 89 89 30 | Mobile : +33 (0)6 52 17 19 44<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR>------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>