[rrd-users] How to plan RRD creation from previously acquired data?

[Simon Hobson]

gschanuel <gabriel.schanuel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess there is something to do with archives or step.. but I really have
> no idea!

The problem is the heartbeat (plus the format already mentioned).

Your new RRD is expecting data spaced by (at most) 600 seconds - while your data is spaced a LOT wider than that. You'll need to set your heartbeat to "longer than the period between updates" while you import the data. WHat will happen then is that when an update comes in, all the buckets from the previous update to the new one will get filled in - instead of what happens now which is that they get filled with NaN as the interval is too long for the heartbeat.
After import, you should be able to tune the heartbeats back to a normal setting.

Alternatively, you'll need to write a program that "fills in the blank" and does multiple updates spaced not more than heartbeat apart.