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Piartool and multiple collectives

Emmanuel Desiderio

Hello, I would like to ask about how piartool works.

In my case, I have multiple Collectives available in my PI SMT..

If I run piartool to register/unregister archives in the command line, does it only apply to the currently active Collective/s?

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    Welcome to the PI Community ​ !

    What's the intended use of this batch file?

    PI Backup supports VSS which stands for Volume Shadow copy Service. The great thing is that it allows to backup files while they are in use by another process. PI Backup allows you to capture backups without any service disruption or otherwise downtime.

    If you like to synchronize archives between the members of a PI Collective, PI Collective manager can do this. By the way, PI Collective Manager also takes a PI Backup of the Primary, copies it to Secondary nodes and registers it there.

    All members of a PI Data Archive Collective operate independently. There is certain information which is synched from Primary to Secondary nodes but e.g. archives are independent. To ensure all data arrives on all members of a PI Collective, use PI Buffer Subsystem to buffer on interface nodes and to fan the data to all members in the Collective.

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    Welcome to the PI Community ​ !

    What's the intended use of this batch file?

    PI Backup supports VSS which stands for Volume Shadow copy Service. The great thing is that it allows to backup files while they are in use by another process. PI Backup allows you to capture backups without any service disruption or otherwise downtime.

    If you like to synchronize archives between the members of a PI Collective, PI Collective manager can do this. By the way, PI Collective Manager also takes a PI Backup of the Primary, copies it to Secondary nodes and registers it there.

    All members of a PI Data Archive Collective operate independently. There is certain information which is synched from Primary to Secondary nodes but e.g. archives are independent. To ensure all data arrives on all members of a PI Collective, use PI Buffer Subsystem to buffer on interface nodes and to fan the data to all members in the Collective.

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    Hello again, thank you for reply...

    We have a lot of data archive files (100s of GB worth I think) that we need to move to a new network drive location.

    I come across piartool and thought that we can make a batch file that will unregister an archive, copy that archive file to the new location, then register the copied archive.. Because we have a lot of archives, doing this by hand for each archive in the PI SMT will take a long time.

    In our collective, there is a primary Server and multiple secondary servers that all contain data archives that we need to move.