more on clock skew

[Eric Gammeter]

Having difficulties with fixing my "clock skew" situation.  My installed file system differs from the one documented in the User Guide under "clock skew".  

/var/lib/weewx compared to /home/weewx/archive.  

Granted-  I have been thru this clock skew situation before-  Alas- I do not recall nor can find the resolution process steps.

It all started when my microSD card failed recently.  I was able to burn a new card with an image backup I had- but the index.html file is not getting updated.  Many thanks.  

Also-  I would like to eventually get to a point where I can maintain a back-up copy of my .SDB file so that my WX history can be preserved.  /Eric G  

[vince]

On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 12:50:21 PM UTC-8, Eric Gammeter wrote:

Having difficulties with fixing my "clock skew" situation.

What situation are you encountering ?

 

My installed file system differs from the one documented in the User Guide under "clock skew".  

/var/lib/weewx compared to /home/weewx/archive.  

ok - you installed using a dpkg rather than by running setup.py, so things are in different locations.  That's fine.

 

Granted-  I have been thru this clock skew situation before-  Alas- I do not recall nor can find the resolution process steps.

It all started when my microSD card failed recently.  I was able to burn a new card with an image backup I had- but the index.html file is not getting updated.  Many thanks.   

We'd have to see your syslog from the period where you start weewx to after the first archive period happens.

 

Also-  I would like to eventually get to a point where I can maintain a back-up copy of my .SDB file so that my WX history can be preserved.  /Eric G  

Sure.  There are dozens of posts on how to do that.  In general you just need to copy it someplace periodically, but it's wise to verify the copy can be restored from.  There are lots of instructions for how to do this in the google group previous posts.

But lets get you going first.  What 'clock skew situation' are you encountering and what does your log look like ?

And what version of weewx, and what version of your os etc. as well so we know what platform you're on.

[Eric Gammeter]

Thank you Vince-  I certainly appreciate your reply.  I was successful in finding an old post from Tom K-  As I mentioned above-  I had been thru this situation prior- and I was able to locate that info from Tom.  Worked for me!  Now I will take up reading about backing-up my database and hopefully never loose any of my weather data again!  I hope.