[rrd-users] Error in database?

[Karl Fischer]

Mats Gustafsson wrote:
>>
>> rrdtool dump measure10.rrd \
>> | pcregrep -v '<!-- 19[567]\d-\d+-\d+ \d+:\d+:\d+ \w+ / -?\d+ -->' > new
>> rrdtool restore new new.rrd
>>
>> did work for me - YMMV
>>
>> hth
>>
>> - Karl
>>
> Hi Karl,
>
> before I received your proposal I tried to shrink the databases using
> rrdtool resize. This seems to work just fine (knock on wood).
> Could you see any disadvantage with this method?

Well,

of course I thought about resize first, but since rrdtool obvoisly can't
handle the data properly (fetch didn't work) I simply didn't trust that
method anymore. Dumping the data and restoring it seemed safer to me.
Does that make sense?

- Karl