Better and better - thanks Susan On Tuesday, 29 March 2022 at 3:30:22 pm UTC+11 gjr80 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 March 2022 at 12:50:33 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > >> Picking up on this again (due to another power failure at my house), I >> can see how the '--rebuild-daily --from' would work, but does this mean >> that you don't need to '--drop-daily' (which doesn't have such date-related >> options) first? > > > Short answer is 'usually'. You can certainly rebuild the daily summaries > without first dropping them and that will solve most folks issues. There > are some corner cases where dropping the daily summaries is required (for > example some daily summary metadata issues are not fixed by a rebuild alone > and a drop is required first) but such cases are rare. This has been the > case for some time, I'm not sure if the 'dropping of the drop' occurred > when the database structure changed in v3.0.0 or if it was later when we > dealt with the weighting issue issue at issue #61. Am sure Tom will have > the details. > > >> I other words, you can rebuild the daily records even if they already >> exist? >> > > Yes. The beauty of not dropping and just date/time limiting your rebuild > is that you only lose the loop based max/min fidelity (if loop_hilo = True) > of your daily summaries for those summaries that were rebuilt (rather than > losing for all summaries if you drop). > > Gary > -- 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/17ee4646-c74c-4ffa-a971-6e02b58bc6b3n%40googlegroups.com.
