[Orca-users] Re: Daily statistics

[dmitryb17]

Thank you for the info.
One more question. --->

--- In orca-discuss at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> dmitryb17 wrote:
> >
> > --- In orca-discuss at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> > > dmitryb17 wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a couple of questions.
> > > > First, how can I control for how long Orca would keep my data
(I
> > > > think I saw this being mentioned somewhere, but can't find it
any
> > > > longer)?
> > >
> > > The source data files or the data stored in the RRD files?
> >
> > Both.
> > And for now, I am only getting data from orcallator.se.
>
> To manage the source data files, delete the orcallator-200X* files
> when you want.  However, see the FAQ question #3.16 in the FAQ
>
>     http://www.orcaware.com/orca/docs/FAQ.html
>
> The RRD files already trim the data after a certain period of time.
> See lib/Orca/Constants.pm for the intervals defined by Orca for the
> RRD files.
>
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Second, how are monthly and yearly averages being
calculating? Are
> > > > they constantly updated with new data?
> > >
> > > They use just a simple average of the measured data.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Third, (this is probably tricky), is there a way to have Orca
> > create
> > > > and keep daily graphs for many different days? I need to be
able
> > to
> > > > go back a few months to any day and see the graph. In
general, is
> > > > there a way to control how daily, monthly, etc. graphs are
being
> > > > generated.
> > >
> > > You can set up a cron job to copy the html directory every day
at
> > > midnight.  In contrib/rotate_orca_graphs/ is a script you can
use
> > > to help automate this process.
> >
> > Is there a good way to automate this: rename daily html pages and
> > graphs to the daily{date} format and create links on the main
page to
> > those daily pages. I do understand that I could write a lot of
> > different scripts to help me do that, I just don't want to
reinvent
> > the weel if this functionality already exist.
>
> Most people just have a cron script that copies the main html
> directory into a directory named something like orca-YYYY-MM-DD
> so that they can see what it looked like then.

Is there a way to be sure that orca is not updating .html or .png
files. This is important, since if the files are copied while being
updated, I might get a bad copy.

Thank you.

Dmitry.