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That worked pretty well in that I got more data than I ever have before by a lot. It only goes back about 18 days, but I'm not sure why. The slurmdbd.conf back then contained no directives on retaining logs, which is supposed to mean it defaults to retaining
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Hi John,</div>
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Have you tried specifying a start time?  The default is 00:00:00 of the current day (depending on other options).  Example:</div>
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sacct -S 2020-11-01T00:00:00</div>
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Our accounting database retains all job data from the epoch of our system.<br>
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Best,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:57 PM<br>
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<div dir="ltr">My jobs database empties after about 1 day. "sacct -a" returns no results. I've tried to lengthen that, but have been unsuccessful. I've tried adding the following to slurmdbd.conf and restarting slurmdbd:
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<div>PurgeSuspendAfter=1month</div>
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<div>No job archives appear (in the default /tmp dir) either. What I'd like to do is have the slurm database retain information on jobs for at least a few weeks, writing out data beyond that threshold to files, but mainly I just want to keep job data in the
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