Export/Import RRDtool database with differents RRA

Question

I have a RRDTool database that has data inside and I want to be able to import this data into another RRDTool database that differs only by the RRAs.

I want to increase the precision of historical data, so I tried how to grow the RRA via rrdresize but it doesn't recompute the added rows. That means I get strange results when graphing as various "zoom levels" : the graph has data when graphing at a lower precision, but empty when I increase the precision since RRDTool automatically selects the best precision level, and the newly added RRA rows are empty (UNKNOWN).

I cannot use rrdrestore either since that also creates the RRD (and doesn't just fill an already existing one).

I know that I cannot recreate the lost data, but I would like to at least copy the data from the lower precision RRA to the new high precision one.

I did write a simple tool, rrdmove, that just loops on every step to do a rrdfetch/rrdupdate cycle so that RRDTool just recomputes all the RRA in the new database, but it does not seem very efficient.

Answer 1

Hi Steve, do you still have that script/tool you mentioned? I'm looking for the same thing, but I'm okay with something less efficient.

Edit: I found a pretty cool (I think) tool: http://docs.cacti.net/manual:087%3A8%5Frrdtool.04%5Fresize but I still need to get it to work.