Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi:

When we went through that transition at SNS, the archive display tool (CSS Data Browser) was configured to look in both the channel archiver's XMLRPC server and the RDB-based data source.

(If you update from the channel archiver to the archive appliance you could do the same. I believe the archive appliance can also serve existing channel archiver data, so then you're back to just one access point for reading data)

In principle it wouldn't be too hard to create a conversion tool.

The CSS sources include both an archive reader for the channel archiver (and other data sources) and an archive writer for the RDB.

The test code contains an older "CopyDemo" that reads all channels from a reader and writes all their samples for some time range to the writer:

https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/cs-studio/blob/master/applications/archive/archive-plugins/org.csstudio.archive.writer.test/test/org/csstudio/archive/writer/rdb/CopyDemo.java

So that's a starting point. If you only need the conversion once, you can try to adjust the URLs etc. in there, then run it from within the development environment.

-Kay