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
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