How large are the cacti rrds

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Aloras
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How large are the cacti rrds

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Hi Guys

How long can I store data in Cacti ? Is the Size of the red files fixed , or can they grow dynamically ?

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Re: How large are the cacti rrds

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Aloras wrote:How long can I store data in Cacti ?
As long as you configure it to. By default the files contain two years of data.
Aloras wrote: Is the Size of the red files fixed , or can they grow dynamically ?
After creation, the size is fixed, but the size depends on how you configure the data to be consolidated and for how long and how much data you put in one file.
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Re: How large are the cacti rrds

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This is discussed and a script is provided in the documnetation section. Using this script, you may mass-extend exting rrd files
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