[rrd-users] Re: restore not working?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Alex,

you have to use

rrdtool dump

to create the dump

and rrdtool restore

to restore it ...

cheers
tobi

Today Alex Prinsier wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I forgot to set the maximum of a datasource, so i set it, then I
> exported the data with:
>
> rrdtool xport DEF:out=42.rrd:amount:AVERAGE XPORT:out:"amount of bytes"
> > test.xml
>
> and then I try to import it again:
> rrdtool restore -r test.xml test.rrd
>
> I also tried:
> rrdtool restore -r test.xml 42.rrd (putting it back in the original file)
>
> But I get this error: ERROR: Incompatible file version, detected version
> . This is not supported by the version 0003 restore tool.
>
> I'm using version RRDtool 1.2.13 (the development snapshot). The
> rrdfiles were originally created by 1.2.11, but doing the same thing
> with the older version didn't work either (with another error though),
> so that's why i updated to the development snapshot.
>
> Anyone knows what's wrong?
>
> Alex
>
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