Well... it looks like I've got rev 3.6.2, but if the switch changed over time, that's fine. Thx, Chris
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 4:32 PM, gjr80 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, 28 January 2018 10:05:37 UTC+10, [email protected] wrote: >> >> To whom it may concern... :^) There are a few spots in the >> Customization guide referencing this; >> >> wee_database weewx.conf --rebuild-daily >> >> >> Hi, > > That is exactly correct, --rebuild-daily is the correct action, > --backfill-daily was used in wee_database until weeWX 3.7.0 was released. > WeeWX v3.7.0 and later uses --rebuild-daily instead of --backfill-daily. > > >> but the help from wee_database actually supports >> Actions: >> --backfill-daily Rebuild the daily summaries from the archive database. >> > > Are you sure that the wee_database you are using (or your weeWX install) > is not 3.6.2 or earlier? I have just checked the 3.7.0, 3.7.1 and 3.8.0 > release copies of wee_database and there is definitely no --backfill-daily > anywhere in the file. > > >> >> --rebuild-daily failed when I tried last week, but since the summaries >> rebuild when weewx starts up >> anyway, I let it go. >> > > Just be careful here, you will see a line like: > > Jan 28 10:21:14 stretch22 weewx[1279]: manager: Starting backfill of > daily summaries > > in the log, whilst it is true weeWX is backfilling the daily summaries it > is only from the last time the daily summaries were updated until the > timestamp of the latest record in the archive; nothing is done with any > historical daily summaries. On the other hand, the --rebuild-daily action > in wee_database will (in most cases) rebuild the entire daily summaries > from the very first record in the archive. So for normal operation the > rebuild during startup is all that is needed, but if you have done > something that altered historical data (eg deleted some nonsense data) then > you really need to use wee_database and do a --rebuild-daily. > > Gary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/weewx-user/WsJ4kOyY5SI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
