Matt, I can not talk for BBB as I never tested that long.
I have a geothermal monitoring system running on a mini2440 for about 4 years now. It collects data from a PIC, format it, displays it using Qt program, saves it on flash drive and every night send the data of the day via email. The only failure was the SDCard mounted R/W. So now the system is mounted RO, logs are circulars on ram tmpfs and data is stored on usb stick. I can reach the system anytime, well if internet is not gone there, it's about 3000kms from here. The systems connects to my local server using VPN. You'd need a static IP or a dynamic dns if you want to use that way. Thats the only way I had, because they do not want to open ports ( nor did know how to do ) where the system is installed. I must say that the system is stable, runing a bit hot sometimes because of improper venting, but show goes on :) That said, if you boot on sdcard, be sure to buy a really good one. Industrial rated if possible. I saw the difference on many embedded systems I built. Industrial grade is not just a word on the product. Regards, Cedric. Le lundi 28 juillet 2014 17:28:49 UTC-4, Matt Pinner a écrit : > > tldr: can i run a BBB for three years? > > I'm about to fly a BBB (w the latest debian) high into the rafters at a > space in Denver. > > It will control 1440 leds over SPI from pixel data sent over UDP via OPC. > > This is all very exciting for me and things have been running fairly > smoothly and the community support and blogs have been enormously helpful. > > Now i'm kind of freaking out bc this thing should ideally run as stably as > any light fixture and i'm not sure a good way to really test that kind of > thing. > > the sub one-minute boot up time seems acceptible enough, so the client can > always reboot it, but then what does that do the filesystem? > > i've started looking into logrotate to keep the disk cleared, but there is > still the question how many read/write cycles will the eMMC accept before > drama happens? > > I plan to have a private network running so i should be able to login to > the BBB for some kind of maintenance and troubleshooting. do i run a long > (100ft) serial cable? and usb cable as well? > > im tempted to put it online so i can check from afar, but i feel that > invites all kinds of new room for disaster and abuse. > > i realize these are more debian/sys-admin/collo questions than BBB > specific, but i thought there might be some specific examples of people > doing this type of thing or suggestions from this group for what to check > and lookout for. > > thanks for your consideration, questions, and suggestions! > > -matt > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
