Probably belongs on rorpi, but this is worth saying here. Tom K (weew2x's author) has reported that he's had a raspberry pi running for 5 years?? at 5 minute intervals, with an sqlite database and standard skin. I have to say that is mightly impressive. Seriously impressive; but it wasn't my experience.
Toms and my setups were/are different. I prefer a minute archive, had several skins going (cmon for one), and very unreliable power. On top of that I tried running mysql locally. But the biggest error of all was I had an ad-hoc backup plan, and I got caught! I paid dearly, more than once. I possibly also struck a bad batch of Sandisk usb sticks? YMWV 5 minutes with an sqlite database shouldn't be a problem - depending on make manufacturer / quality and direction the wind is blowing. But then you are doing regular backups so you're a long way along the path to recovery if the proverbial does hit the fan. If you don't have to reinstall the OS on top of rebuilding a corrupt database, then you'll be a lot happier. Trust me on that last one. P.S. Did I mention it's a good idea to have backups, regular backups? :-) Cheers Glenn rorpi - read only raspberry pi & various weewx addons https://github.com/glennmckechnie On 30 January 2018 at 11:33, Praveen Chandrasekaran <praveen.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Glenn, > > Even the usb stick will wear out if I write every 5 minutes i assume. Is > there way to wrote out from memory to usb say every 1 hour and restore from > usb on power up. That will extend the usb stick lifetime significantly. Or > is this a rorpi discussion :) I found how to backup to usb in your page but > couldn't find restoring on power up. > > Regards, > Praveen > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
