Re: [rrd-users] Adding data in the past

2016-03-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Thank you for the advise. > As Simon pointed out, you cannot do this, by design. OK. > If you have a large amount of historical data to add in one go, then you > could do it by creating a separate RRD file for this new data, then using an > RRD merge function to merge the two together. That's w

Re: [rrd-users] Adding data in the past

2016-03-09 Thread Steve Shipway
> I want to add data in the past but cannot figure how to do so. As Simon pointed out, you cannot do this, by design. RRDTool performs continuous consolidation of data which would not be possible were you able to add data in the past. If you have a large amount of historical data to add in one g

Re: [rrd-users] Adding data in the past

2016-03-09 Thread Simon Hobson
Olivier Nicole wrote: > I am stuck with aan annoying issue with rrdtool. > > I want to add data in the past but cannot figure how to do so. You can't That's a design feature, not a bug. > So far, I have only added data now, but I want to reconstruct an history > from data gathered from an olde

Re: [rrd-users] Adding data in the past

2016-03-09 Thread Heinrich Schnorrenberg
Hi Olivier, I have the same problem. according to the documentation there is an option “-skip-past-udates” which should solve the problem. But in my environment (Rasperry3, Jessie, rrdtool V1.4.8 ) this option is not available. regards Heinrich > On 09.03.2016, at 11:25, Olivier Nicole wro