Dayfile entries missing after downtime

[mickopla]

At the suggestion of Steve i will start a new thread for this. Basically my pc was down from 5th Jan for 8 days. When i restarted Cumulus it didn't retrieve the data from the downtime days. The console was running for those days and should have the data. I tried to use a backup of the data folder to retrieve the data but it didn't work. Diags folder attached.

[steve]

When you started Cumulus again on 13th Jan, it tried to download the data from the logger to fill in for the time when it hadn't been running:

13/01/2012 18:04:25.829 : VP2: Downloading history from 05/01/2012 04:53:00
13/01/2012 18:04:25.829 : y=2012 m=1 d=5 h=4 m=53
13/01/2012 18:05:44.606 : VP2: DownloadData_V = 2559
13/01/2012 18:05:44.606 : VP2: GetNumberOfArchiveRecords_V = 2559
13/01/2012 18:05:44.606 : VP2: Number of history records = 2559
13/01/2012 18:05:44.607 : Logger entry zero: Y = 2012, M = 1, D = 11, H = 23, M = 21
13/01/2012 18:05:44.607 : VP2: Earliest timestamp 11/01/2012 23:21:00
13/01/2012 18:05:44.607 : VP2: Actual number of valid history records = 2559

Your station logger is set to a 1-minute interval, which means it holds a maximum of less than 2 days, so that's all the data that was available (i.e. back to late on the 11th Jan).

[mcrossley]

Snap!

When you restarted on the 13th, Cumulus attempted to download history from the 5th, but your VP data logger only has data going back to the 11th

13/01/2012 18:04:25.829 : VP2: Downloading history from 05/01/2012 04:53:00
13/01/2012 18:04:25.829 : y=2012 m=1 d=5 h=4 m=53
13/01/2012 18:05:44.606 : VP2: DownloadData_V = 2559
13/01/2012 18:05:44.606 : VP2: GetNumberOfArchiveRecords_V = 2559
13/01/2012 18:05:44.606 : VP2: Number of history records = 2559
13/01/2012 18:05:44.607 : Logger entry zero: Y = 2012, M = 1, D = 11, H = 23, M = 21
13/01/2012 18:05:44.607 : VP2: Earliest timestamp 11/01/2012 23:21:00

[mickopla]

Thanks guys, Guess the data is lost forever. Would it be good practice to change the interval time to more than 1 minute. Would this effect live updates to Cumulus in any way??

[steve]

It wouldn't affect live data at all. But you only need to change it if you think you'll ever need to catch up data for more than about 42 hours. A 5-minute interval would give you nearly 9 days.

[mickopla]

Thanks Steve.

In doing what i did today i doubled my rainfall for the month to 32mm and also lost the max gust of the month which was 76km/h on Jan 5th. What is the best way to correct these errors?

Mick


edit: Looking through my records again it looks like 32mm is correct.Max gust still needs to be fixed.

[steve]

The monthly highs and lows are in month.ini; you can edit this using the editor in Cumulus on the Edit menu.

[mickopla]

The monthly highs and lows are in month.ini; you can edit this using the editor in Cumulus on the Edit menu.

Thanks Steve