Cacti Backups

[villieb]

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.5M Apr 5 11:59 Cacti-Database-2013-04-05.sql
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.5M Apr 5 11:59 CactiFolder-2013-04-05.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25K Apr 5 12:01 CLI_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34K Apr 5 12:01 LOG_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 122M Apr 5 12:01 RRAXML_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.2K Apr 5 12:01 SCRIPT_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz

[mouthpiec]

the main difference in size is the RRAXML_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz

Do you know what this file contain?

[villieb]

These are the RRD files that have been rrddumped to XML files. I think yours are empty.

I run the script without "–-range-check" as I think this causes problems.

Looking on http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/index.en.html it doesn't mention using the range-check variable when using rrdtool dump.

I would suggest to run the script without the range check because I know it works that way.

[mouthpiec]

i think it is better as suggested:

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[root@localhost cacti-backup]# ls -lh
total 71M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6M Apr  5 14:20 Cacti-Database-2013-04-05.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.1M Apr  5 14:20 CactiFolder-2013-04-05.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  26K Apr  5 14:22 CLI_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 505K Apr  5 14:22 LOG_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  59M Apr  5 14:22 RRAXML_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.7K Apr  5 14:22 SCRIPT_files-2013-04-05.tar.gz

[raminmalek]

How run this scripts ???


How apply this to my cacti server

[villieb]

Copy either the backup/restore script and save as "backupscript.sh"

run script using "bash /<location of script/backupscript.sh"

Remember to edit the file and change the mysql password to the one you set when setting up.

[Cornel]

I have a question on these scripts. I use these scripts and run great. I backup my Cacti weekly.
I finally need to do a restore after 2 years of using it, and I have an issue.
Im doing a backup of all data. No errors.
Im doing a restore of all data (new server, new IP). No errors.
I try to go https://server-name/cacti
I get nothing. No website, no nothing. Am I missing something, or does this backup only works if you use the same server IP?
Thanks...

[villieb]

Are you reinstalling cacti before you restore the data?

[Cornel]

Are you reinstalling cacti before you restore the data?

yes. This is what I do.
I backup my current Cacti Data with the script in this thread.
I create a new server (VM).
I install cacti, and cacti necessary packages, Apache2, etc etc.
I then reboot.
Cacti works great.
I copy the backup files to the new server (VM).
I use the restore script.
I can still see the Cacti Site while the script is running up until about almost at the end. When it gets to that point, Cacti website says "The Webpage cannot be found" and I cannot do anything after that, but I know Cacti is running in the back as I see my devices being pulled data from the server.
Where did I go wrong or am I missing a step?
Thanks...

[villieb]

Maybe there's something in the cacti folder where you allow http from anywhere needs changing. I can't remember of the top of my head. I don't have a test environment to check (or a production one either) since I changed jobs

[Cornel]

Maybe there's something in the cacti folder where you allow http from anywhere needs changing. I can't remember of the top of my head. I don't have a test environment to check (or a production one either) since I changed jobs

OK I found the issue finally. Holy crap, 4 days of playing with this, finally got the darn thing to work. The issue is plugins directory. It seems it did not like some of the plugins, among one of them that gave me trouble is the SSL Plugin. The others, I was able to work around them, but SSL Plugin was the major culprit. Once I removed that from the Plugins folder, BAM, everything came up.
Phew, man it was a long troubleshooting, but it was worth it.
Thanks...

[Cornel]

Maybe there's something in the cacti folder where you allow http from anywhere needs changing. I can't remember of the top of my head. I don't have a test environment to check (or a production one either) since I changed jobs

One small problem, probably you guys found a solution to this before. All my data is available from the backup, but no new data is being graphed. Am I supposed to do something after I restore my data? I did the php poller.php and still I do not get any new data.
Thanks...

[micke2k]

Maybe there's something in the cacti folder where you allow http from anywhere needs changing. I can't remember of the top of my head. I don't have a test environment to check (or a production one either) since I changed jobs

One small problem, probably you guys found a solution to this before. All my data is available from the backup, but no new data is being graphed. Am I supposed to do something after I restore my data? I did the php poller.php and still I do not get any new data.
Thanks...

Rebuilt the poller cache?

[Cornel]

Maybe there's something in the cacti folder where you allow http from anywhere needs changing. I can't remember of the top of my head. I don't have a test environment to check (or a production one either) since I changed jobs

One small problem, probably you guys found a solution to this before. All my data is available from the backup, but no new data is being graphed. Am I supposed to do something after I restore my data? I did the php poller.php and still I do not get any new data.
Thanks...

Rebuilt the poller cache?

Thank you. What I actually had to do is to change the Poller Type from cmd.php to spine. Then it worked like a charm. Thank you...

[hardwar315]

Hi,

When I've run file backup-cacti.sh. But I has error:

'var/lib/cacti/scripts/backup-cacti.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `
'var/lib/cacti/scripts/backup-cacti.sh: line 7: `rrdump ()

What happen for my scripts?


I've newbie cacti.