I use mysql and keep a week of files which are backed up to another server. I use the name of the day of the week and that way it overwrites the old file with the same name and you get a rolling 7 files.
#keep a weeks worth of weewx backups /usr/bin/mysqldump --add-drop-table --user=root --password=password weewx > $FILELOCATION/weewx-$(date +%A).sql So you end up with 7 rolling files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512633446 Jan 8 23:15 weewx-Friday.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 511735369 Jan 4 23:15 weewx-Monday.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512857289 Jan 9 23:15 weewx-Saturday.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 513079187 Jan 10 23:15 weewx-Sunday.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512408576 Jan 7 23:15 weewx-Thursday.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 511958413 Jan 5 23:15 weewx-Tuesday.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512183056 Jan 6 23:15 weewx-Wednesday.sql Works well. I have restored lots of times with success. On Monday, 11 January 2021 at 06:32:01 UTC+11 [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:06 AM Timothy L <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For my own personal understanding as a newcomer I would like to ask how >> is it possible to lose a data record using a logger such as in the Vantage >> Pro 2 series that should report once weewx is restarted after the backup? >> Wouldn't the logger have recorded the weather event and then transferred >> that event once weewx has restarted? >> > > True enough for a Vantage station, but not all stations have a logger. In > fact, most don't. > > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/97646840-76dc-4853-b1ce-0593e236c2b1n%40googlegroups.com.
