[collectd] Collectd in ram syncing with hdd

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Wed, 3 Oct 2012, valent.turkovic wrote:

> I'm running collectd on openwrt and by default all data is stored in ram.
> After every reboot all of my data is gone.
>
> Is it possible to sync data to usb stick every hour so that on reboot only
> 1 hour is lost and not all of the data?
> I can't make collectd work in in this setup so any help is much
> appreciated.

Can you store the data remotely?  You could use rsync over ssh from a
remote machine, triggered by a cron job.  Another approach could be to
mount a remote data store using NFS for example.

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73,
Ged.