[rrd-users] Re: newbie question (creating an rrd that is updated occasionally)...

[Stephan Harren]

And actually, that's the solution.

rrdtool create foo.rrd -b -100days -s # of secs in 30 days  DS:...etc.. 
RRA:LAST:...etc..

Now you should pick the last timestamp from your rrd that exists, doing 
so by rrdtool dump foo.rrd.

Then you update your rrd with exactly this timestamp, after about 
another thirty days with the next timestamp=timestamp+ # of secs in 30 
days by doing
rrdtool update bla bla timestamp:value. It doesn't matter if you do that 
after maybe 31 or 32 days, but be sure to provide the right timestamp.

The secret is that it's always a rate, so take care of heartbeat and 
step. A good idea for your example is to take a step of 30 days and a 
heartbeat of 60 days. If you then provide the values with the exact 
timestamps you'll have that value valid for exactly thirty days.

HTH,

Stephan


Eric Ho wrote:

> actually, that's the dilemma.
> let's say that I created the rrd w/:
>  
> rrdtool create foo.rrd -b -100days -s X  DS:...etc.. RRA:LAST:...etc..
>  
> where X = # of secs in 30 days.
>  
> Now, if I update it w/ timestamp, T, where T may not lie at the
> beginning of the month, I get strange results when I fetch foo.rrd.
>

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