Morgan Fruchtnicht wrote: > This seems like an obvious question, but I can't find it > on the rrd web site - > rrd won't let me update a time that is prior to the most > recent update. I want to do this to set occasional hiccups > in data collection to 0 so it doesn't goof up my numbers > when it's all said and done.
That's right. You cannot update old values. > How does(can?) one do this? What you can do is make an ascii dump of the database, edit that dump and then restore it again. You will have to alter each RRA involved. RTFM for "rrdtool dump" and "rrdtool restore" for the ascii dump. Altering the values requires a little bit of knowledge of the RRD format, which isn't hard to find. In short: RRA = n rows of n datasources; each row describes (time-interval) to (time) HTH -- __________________________________________________________________ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | work private | | My employer is capable of speaking therefore I speak only for myself | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Technical questions sent directly to me will be nuked. Use the list. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | http://faq.mrtg.org/ | | http://rrdtool.eu.org --> tutorial | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
