Hi Vince Well when I started the process I didn't actually think that the sdcard was bad, I just needed more space to do the OS and Weewx upgrade. And then ...... your second suggestion is exactly what ended up happening :)
But certainly a valuable lesson in the vital things to have backed up other than what's covered in the general documentation Cheers Colin On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 16:04, vince <[email protected]> wrote: > For the future, never 'copy' a possibly bad SD to a new SD card. All > you're doing then is switching which physical media the bad bits are on. > > Reimage the os onto the new card with Balena Etcher or similar imaging > software, put it in the pi, and reinstall any added software like weewx > onto it. Then restore your database. 'That' is a clean reinstallation. > > -- > 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/22233ebc-bc8b-4732-83a7-ec39cb510be5n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/22233ebc-bc8b-4732-83a7-ec39cb510be5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CACjxfUsW%3DRKFybi99tus1z%2BWNK9hLeDd4SSeMcaoTXtw5j0FDg%40mail.gmail.com.
