Not quite that impressive. It's 3 years and 2+ months: http://www.threefools.org/weewx/status/index.html
-tk On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 5:57 PM, Glenn McKechnie <glenn.mckech...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
