remove *.rrd files in /rra directory

alexeyk · Post by **alexeyk** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:28 pm

Hi all!
When i create some data sources, a new .rrd file adds in /rra directory.
for example:

-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti cacti 47992 Aug 13 19:55 localhost_ping_8.rrd

when I remove this data sources from web interface file localhost_ping_8.rrd still exist in my /rra directory. How I can remove that file from disk, by my web interface?

alexeyk · Post by **alexeyk** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:41 pm

P.S.
When I removed graph, I used:
"Delete all data sources referenced by these graphs"

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:03 pm

The rrdclean plugin will do this job for you, and help you find old redundant rrd files.

In a normal system, the web interface doesn't have permission to write to the rra/ directory. I'm not sure if it would delete the files even then though.

Deviloper · Post by **Deviloper** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:12 am

No, It would not delete the files.
Cacti is very misleading in this case.

Just remove no longer "updated" files manuelly... easiest way sort by last change date... delete... in a explorer-style ftp-scp or whatever tool

Post by **gandalf** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:52 pm

Deviloper wrote:No, It would not delete the files.
Cacti is very misleading in this case.

Just remove no longer "updated" files manuelly... easiest way sort by last change date... delete... in a explorer-style ftp-scp or whatever tool

There have been issues (noatime) where this is misleading as well. RRDClean will work around this and delete files through the poller (who as the correct permissions as he created the files

)
Reinhard

remove *.rrd files in /rra directory

remove *.rrd files in /rra directory

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