Template: collectd/migration-3-4 Type: note _Description: Layout of RRD files has changed The layout of the RRD files created by collectd has changed significantly since version 3.x. In order to keep your old data you have to migrate it. This can be done by using /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-3-4.px. . This step requires both the perl and the rrdtool packages to be installed, which is currently not the case. You need to perform the migration manually. . See /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/NEWS.Debian.gz for details. Template: collectd/auto-migrate-3-4 Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Automatically try to migrate your RRD files? The layout of the RRD files created by collectd has changed significantly since version 3.x. In order to keep your old data you have to migrate it. This can be done by using /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-3-4.px. . This step can be done automatically. In this case a backup of /var/lib/collectd/ is made in /var/backups/. This script is still experimental, though. Do not expect it to work in all cases. . See /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/NEWS.Debian.gz for details. Template: collectd/migration-4-5 Type: note _Description: Layout of RRD files has changed in version 5.0 The layout of some RRD files created by collectd has changed since version 4.x. In order to keep your old data you have to migrate it. This can be done by using /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-4-5.px. . This step requires both the perl and the rrdtool packages to be installed, which is currently not the case. You need to perform the migration manually. . See /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/NEWS.Debian.gz and the collectd wiki at for details. Template: collectd/auto-migrate-4-5 Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Automatically try to migrate your RRD files? The layout of some RRD files created by collectd has changed since version 4.x. In order to keep your old data you have to migrate it. This can be done by using /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-4-5.px. . This step can be done automatically. In this case a backup of /var/lib/collectd/ is made in /var/backups/. This script is still experimental, though. Do not expect it to work in all cases. . See /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/NEWS.Debian.gz and the collectd wiki at for details. Template: collectd/postrm_purge_data Type: boolean Default: true _Description: Remove all collected data (e.g. RRD files)? The /var/lib/collectd/ directory which contains the data files containing the collected statistics is about to be removed. For example, this directory includes (in the default configuration) all RRD files. . If you're purging the collectd package in order to replace it with a more recent or custom version or if you want to keep the data for further analysis, the data should be kept.