[rrd-users] Re: removing rra's

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Bjorn Nordbo wrote:

 |
 | Due to bad planning, I have several RRD's with redundand RRA's:
 |
 | RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:8064
 | RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700
 |
 | Ie. 28 days of high resolution (5 min) samples and 14 days om
 | lower resolution (30 min) samples. I presume there's no good
 | reason to keep the second RRA around(?), and thus I would like
 | to remove it.

a good reason could be that this saves some caculation time when
generating graphs which need data in 30 minute interval

 |
 | Is there a good way of doing this (resize to zero doesn't do
 | the trick), except dumping the output to XML, modify it and
 | restore it to anothe RRD archive?

I suggest you dump :-)

this can be scripted, so it should not be that bad

tobi
 |
 |

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