Pulling Logger Data after Hard Drive Crash

[hazyarc]

Hi all,

I have a Vantage Vue along with the USB Datalink Logger. My hard drive crashed on Saturday and I've replaced it today and have everything back up and running. Unfortunately, I do not have any backups of my log files (luckily, I just started broadcasting this month). I noticed that Cumulus pulls data from the logger from the last time that Cumulus was shut down. My problem is the fact that on my new hard drive, Cumulus is a new install, thus it doesn't know to pull the logger data. Is there a way I can override this limitation and force cumulus to pull data from the logger since Saturday? Thanks!

[steve]

You can try editing the 'timestamp' in today.ini, but you may have some tidying up to do. See http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/FAQ#I.E2.8 ... er_station

[hazyarc]

This worked beautifully, thank you for the information. I was actually able to enter September 3rd (the day I connected my weather station) in the timestamp field and was able to recover all of my data that I lost! I had no idea the logger retained information for that long, but I'm pleased it did!

Now, next up on the agenda...start backups of my Cumulus log files!

[steve]

This worked beautifully, thank you for the information. I was actually able to enter September 3rd (the day I connected my weather station) in the timestamp field and was able to recover all of my data that I lost! I had no idea the logger retained information for that long, but I'm pleased it did!

It holds 2560 entries, so the actual period covers depends on the (station) logger interval; e.g. at 10-minute intervals it's about 17 days.