[rrd-users] Can I fill a hole in an rrd?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Yesterday Koaps wrote:

> Well according to the man page you can but rrdtool throws an error.
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/rrd-developers@lists.oetiker.ch/msg03067.html
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> You should be able to specify a negative time also but it does
> not work either, you will get an illegal attempt to update using
> time error.

Note that you can not go back in time with rrdtool. This is due
to the way it handles updates (re-sampling). The bug you are citing
(which is fixed) is about sending updates relative to the current
time. YOu still have to observe the strict ordering along the
timeline.


> >From that thread it was supposed to be patched in, but I guess it broke again.

cheers
tobi

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