Thanks for the responses and I learned again! It seems good to me to make the weekly small backup with Weewx-live on Saturday 01h07min and to stop Weewx for the monthly image backup.
Regards, Keimpe Op ma 17 feb 2025 om 20:07 schreef vince <[email protected]>: > I copy the db to a different directory then compress the copy. Very safe > and reliable. > > On Monday, February 17, 2025 at 10:00:26 AM UTC-8 p q wrote: > >> It's not necessary to shut down weewx for the weekly backup. The database >> is the only thing being written to and if you're accessing it won't be >> written to. However, I do stop weewx for my daily backup just to be sure, >> but it doesn't take very long. I stop weewx just long enough to make a >> local copy of the db and then restart it before copying the copy off site. >> >> I have no idea what happens when you make an image of a running SD card. >> >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM Keimpe Bleeker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, once a week a script, executed by CRON, is making a backup of >>> the essentials like config files and the weewx.sdb, once a month an image >>> of the SD-card. Prior to these backups I'm stopping Weewx, in my point of >>> view to protect the database. The 'small backup' takes some minutes, the >>> image about half an hour. I'm curious if it is necesarry to shut down >>> Weewx. Anobody a suggestion? >>> >>> -- >>> >> 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 visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c84a0352-0b36-4e93-a78b-5fee18989600n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c84a0352-0b36-4e93-a78b-5fee18989600n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> Peter Quinn >> (415)794-2264 <(415)%20794-2264> >> > -- > 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/I2q3gPszItk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/328665b8-4799-4c74-83ce-ea37b01fda19n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/328665b8-4799-4c74-83ce-ea37b01fda19n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAGdxzRMk8dt1fe3rF056i5rqa6jOufbrbuVN5CPBVipCK-iOrw%40mail.gmail.com.
