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Overview

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The archiving procedure that is described in this article only works with MySQL databases. See Exporting and Importing Your DataStore for information on exporting and importing data into Oracle and SQL databases.

 

This article describes how to retrieve DataStore data that was automatically archived by up.time, based on your configured archive policy.

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Archived data can only be restored by the same version of up.time that was used to create it.

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You can configure up.time to selectively archive data in the DataStore. Each month, up.time checks the DataStore to determine if the data is older than the specified archive period. The archived data is moved into a directory named archives under the base installation directory.

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performance_fscap_2010-06-12.xml.gz

 

Identifying the Data to Restore

Before importing your data, identify the files that contain the information that you want to import. up.time creates the following archives:

Type of DataArchive FilenameDatabase Table(s) Archived
CPU Statisticsperformance_cpu_<date>.xml.gzperformance_cpu 
Overall CPU Statisticsperformance_aggregate_<date>.xml.gzperformance_aggregate
NRM Statisticsperformance_nrm_<date>.xml.gzperformance_nrm (if you are running Novell NRM in your environment)
Multi-CPU Statisticsperformance_cpu_<date>.xml.gzperformance_cpu
Detailed Process Statisticsperformance_psinfo_<date>.xml.gzperformance_psinfo 
Disk Performance Statisticsperformance_disk_<date>.xml.gzperformance_disk
File System Capacity Statisticsperformance_fscap_<date>.xml.gzperformance_fscap
Network Statisticsperformance_network_<date>.xml.gzperformance_network
User Information Statisticsperformance_who_<date>.xml.gzperformance_who
Volume Manager Statisticsperformance_vxvol_<date>.xml.gzperformance_vxvol
Retained Dataerdc_int_data_<date>.xml.gz
erdc_decimal_data_<date>.xml.gz
erdc_string_data_<date>.xml.gz
erdc_int_data
erdc_decimal_data
erdc_string_data

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Importing the Archived Data

When you have identified the archived data that you want to import into the database, run the following commands to import the archived data:

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