[rrd-users] Re: rrdtool graphs without the rrd?

[Cory Casler]

> You should be able to populate it on the fly.  

I would be interested to know if you or anyone knows how to populate an
rrd on the fly.  I have never seen this as an option.  If it's in the
doc I've never seen it. 

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[mailto:rrd-users-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of PAUL WILLIAMSON
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:53 PM
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Subject: [rrd-users] Re: rrdtool graphs without the rrd?

>>> "Jayson Larose" <jayson at interlaced.org> 03/23/05 3:56 PM >>>
>Hello, folks.
>
>This is probably going to sound really stupid and/or blasphemous, 
>but I was wondering if there's any way to get rrdtool to generate 
>a graph from input data without having to populate and maintain 
>an RRD.  I really like rrdtool's output graphs, but the data I track 
>has to be kept around in a non-lossy format, and it seems like a 
>waste of cycles to keep a set of RRDs populated for ongoing graphs,
>as well as potentially creating RRDs for custom graphs.
>
>If anyone knows if this is at all feasible, please let me know.
>
>--Jayson Larose

Jayson,

You should be able to populate it on the fly.  But, you can 
always define an RRA that is not lossy.  I have all my 
RRDs set up with the average RRAs as well as a "non-lossy" 
5 minute RRA that has been extended to 1 year.  We back 
these RRDs up at the end of the year.  At this point, I've 
got 5 years worth of 5 minute data, and regularly do 
long-term analysis of our bandwidth consumption.

Paul

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