[rrd-developers] Re: Possible "create as clone"?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today David Lee wrote:

> If the above functionality already exists, my apologies: just point me to
> the correct man page (or whatever).  We have version 1.0.34 and yesterday
> I skimmed through 1.0.40 .

try rrdtool info

tobi
>
> If it doesn't exist, would it be useful?  What would be the best
> implementation?  Something like:
>
> 1.  Enhance "rrd tune" to display RRA characteristics.
>
> 2.
>    a.  Add an option to "rrd restore" (and/or "rrd dump"?) to say "ignore
>        the data".
>
>    b.  Add an alternative mode of working for "rrd create" to say "use
>        another rrd as a protoype".
>
>    "2a" has the advantage of working across architectures whereas "2b"
>    would only work if both rrds (prototype and new) are same-architecture.
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> If the ideas and suggested implementations sound reasonable, I could have
> a look at trying to implement it (but no promises!).
>
>
>

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