Pi and Weewx

[Luke Marcum]

I've finally got Weewx working on my Pi FTPing to my website how I want.  I was just wondering if weewx takes up a lot of storage on my PI and what I can do to backup and store this data differently so my Pi doesn't run out of space!

[vince]

On Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 5:09:39 PM UTC-7, Luke Marcum wrote:

I've finally got Weewx working on my Pi FTPing to my website how I want.  I was just wondering if weewx takes up a lot of storage on my PI and what I can do to backup and store this data differently so my Pi doesn't run out of space!

I have 12 years of data and it's under 400 MB for my archive directory, so filling up your disk is about the last thing you need to worry about.

You definitely want to back up your archive directory to keep all your data.  There are 'many' threads here for how to do that.   Do a little searching in the group archive. 

[Luke Marcum]

Ok, Thanks!

[Duane Kerzic]

I have about 10 years of data on my RPi4 and all the data is about 1.7gb, I'm using a 1 minute archive interval (total used on the card is about 6.4gb). I use mysql and it might be different with sqllite as there is a lot less overhead. Good SD cards are cheap now and there are other storage options as well. I stay after the replication logs however.

I was sftping the pages to an external web hosting site every 5 minutes. But installed Apache2 on the pi to serve it instead. Then used dynDNS on the router, no-ip.com type. Created a subdomain http://weather.duanek.name at my domain provider to redirect that url to the dynDNS and now serve it off the pi. My ISP blocks port 80 so I just used port 8888 and set my router to forward that port to port 80 on the pi.

I really only have neighbors looking at this. So this results in less traffic even though the traffic from the sftp'ed pages was trivial.

[Mike Revitt]

I back mine up to AWS S3 once per day, which is also where I host the website, cost is negligible and I have created a Python extension to do the job for me as part of the Weewx install