[slurm-users] Upgrading a slurm on a cluster, 17.02 --> 18.08

[Paul Edmon]

We archive here.  We only keep 6 months of data in our active database.  
Formerly we kept it all in there but we found that slurm upgrades were 
taking too long and the database was getting very large.  Data that is 
dumped can be read in by sacct using the flags documented in there.  
It's very rare though that we need to look back at that data.

-Paul Edmon-


On 10/01/2018 08:12 AM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 September 2018 1:18:24 AM AEST Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a good explanation of usage of the Archive and Purge
>> features for the Slurm database?  For example, how can the archived data
>> be used for accounting etc.?
> I've never archived data in Slurm, at VLSCI we would get reporting questions
> about usage (even after systems had been decommissioned) that we needed to go
> back to get data out of Slurm for.  Luckily we had some beefy Percona MySQL
> servers in a cluster!
>
> All the best,
> Chris