Well according to the man page you can but rrdtool throws an error.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03067.html You should be able to specify a negative time also but it does not work either, you will get an illegal attempt to update using time error. >From that thread it was supposed to be patched in, but I guess it broke again. -c --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [rrd-users] Can I fill a hole in an rrd? > To: "Koaps" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 2:31 PM > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:30:14PM > -0700, Koaps wrote: > > well, are you doing a xport then restore? or replaying > the values using update? > > > > If you xport to xml you can find the timestamp range > where the hole is, take the last successful update value and > replace all the NaN's in the timestamp range with the last > successful update value. > > I haven't done that yet since it's a different format than > the one I used to > load up the RRD, but my understanding is that it's still > kind of the same > problem that I have to stop updates, dump the file, fix it, > restore it, and > restart updates, which will give me a hole. > > I would really like to just feed the missing data samples > in the RRD with > a bunch of > rrdtool update housepower_21.rrd > 1242148828:500000853:500000071:500000070:499999218:499999999 > commands to feed data samples in the middle of the file > (since I'm giving > the time index) and not just at the end. > > Is that not possible? > > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to > type in" - A.S.R. > Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... > > > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet > cooking > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ > _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
