Re: [weewx-user] weewx.sdb backups revisited

2019-11-12 Thread Greg Troxel
WindnFog writes: > Reading the list archive, the documentation, and searching the Internet > about the "best" way to backup SQLite databases, I conclude cold backups > are safer than a "hot" cp or rsync. That said, I am doing a hot rsync > (takes 2-3 seconds) to another LAN system and a cloud

Re: [weewx-user] weewx.sdb backups revisited

2019-11-12 Thread Paul Dunphy
Thanks,Tom!  I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, so I shall keep doing what I've been doing. Take care, Paul VE1DX On 2019-11-12 12:12 p.m., Thomas Keffer wrote: Unless you are running some unusual service, there should be no situations where weewx is modifying the database between

Re: [weewx-user] weewx.sdb backups revisited

2019-11-12 Thread Thomas Keffer
Unless you are running some unusual service, there should be no situations where weewx is modifying the database between archive events. -tk On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 7:48 AM WindnFog wrote: > Reading the list archive, the documentation, and searching the Internet > about the "best" way to

[weewx-user] weewx.sdb backups revisited

2019-11-12 Thread WindnFog
Reading the list archive, the documentation, and searching the Internet about the "best" way to backup SQLite databases, I conclude cold backups are safer than a "hot" cp or rsync. That said, I am doing a hot rsync (takes 2-3 seconds) to another LAN system and a cloud server at 01:18 AM