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Data and backup
Posted: Thu 23 Oct 2008 3:34 am
by PaulMy
Cumulus seems to be working fine on my computer since installing in September, however there is nothing in the 'cumulus/data' folder and it says "folder is empty". Also, nothing in 'backup' folder. Is this normal, and how do I backup?
Paul
Davis VP2
Weather Underground IONTARIO226
Re: Data and backup
Posted: Thu 23 Oct 2008 4:11 am
by PaulMy
Have reposted this in the Cumulus forum...
Re: Data and backup
Posted: Thu 23 Oct 2008 8:24 am
by TNETWeather
Steve I'm sure can come up with more complete information but it appears looking at what changes that the bulk of the data that would need to be saved would be the data directory.
If you have made changes to the web templates, you would want a copy of that as well.
Personally, I just save the entire directory structure every night using a backup tool that creates a simple compressed zip which get sent offsite for storage. It is fairly small compared (only 14mb's in the zip file) to other weather software packages and lets me rewind back to a previous version if something bad happened.
The backup tool I use is called SyncBackSE from 2BrightSparks Software:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbse.html