Way back in 2014 (wow) when we had that long thread about this, many of us checked our hundreds of backups with 'pragma integrity_check' and never found any that were not restorable, so I'm pretty ok with taking that risk still.
On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 5:26:08 PM UTC-8 Tom Keffer wrote: > I actually think 'cp' is pretty safe. When WeeWX writes a record to the > database, it has to update the main archive, as well as many daily > summaries. To make sure this is all done atomicallly, it does it as one big > transaction. > > So, unless your 'cp' has the unfortunate timing of happening at the exact > moment when the transaction is being committed, you should be fine. I don't > know how big a time window that is. Maybe a couple hundred milliseconds? > -- 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/2172edad-8aaa-4c6c-aeb2-61c9fb3adcean%40googlegroups.com.
