Re: [slurm-users] Advice for merging accounting data

2020-07-08 Thread Rodrigo Santibáñez
There is no problem with duplicated JobIDs. from https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html *-D**,* *--duplicates* If Slurm job ids are reset, some job numbers will probably appear more than once in the accounting log file but refer to different jobs. Such jobs can be distinguished by the "submit" time

Re: [slurm-users] Advice for merging accounting data

2020-07-08 Thread Brian Andrus
If you want everything good, you will want to dump/import before starting to use the new database. If they are the same versions of mysql/mariadb, I would merely rsync the database folders over and then start the db. One potential gotcha is the jobid starting over/being different. Make sure

[slurm-users] Advice for merging accounting data

2020-07-08 Thread Simon Kainz
Hello, we have a long-running slurm cluster, accounting into slurmdbd/mysql backend on the cluster master. We recently installed a new system, now with a dedicated, separate logging host, also with mysql backend. How could i, preferably without losing accounting data, move the logging informatio