I initially tried BerryBoot out of curiosity and did not expect to keep using it but decided to do so when I found it worked so well. I have only had one SD Card fail in about five year of using weewx - and that by conincidence was one week after I configured the NFS mounts so I was lucky I didn't lose anything. Even before that I was using log2ram to minimise writes to the SD Card.
Once BerryBoot has been configured with the iSCSI Target and an OS installed, it can be flagged as the default OS so it boots up automatically, no manual intervention required. It displays the boot menu for 20 secs (default time) before booting the default OS. If you run headless (no monitor attached), it can be configured to run up a VNC server so you can view the boot menu and configure remotely. Once the OS starts booting, you do lose the VNC. The other advantage is that you end up with a fast filesystem - faster than the SD card. It will also work over WiFi but I have not tried it. I expect it wouldn't be as stable (or as fast) as using an Ethernet cable. Also, because it uses the NAS filesystem, you can also utilise the NAS's snapshot and backup features - depends on how paranoid you want to be. It's not a solution for everyone but it impressed me so I kept using it. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/390855bc-58b3-48e2-8485-8a6ef648077d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
