[arm-allstar] archivedir not archiving

[John Huggins]

It's a USB stick.

During another reboot, the files remained intact. Will continue to experiment.

John

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 9:36 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar"
<arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> NEVER archive to the SD card or Pi ram. It sounds like that is what you are
> doing if you are losing it in a reboot. While the SD card would save it, it
> could also be damaged very quickly and the RAM is not large enough and is
> volatile. On a busy system the WAV files take a lot of space.
>
> Archiving must be done to an external device. The best thing to use is a USB
> stick. You can get 32G, 64G and even
> 128G and larger sizes. You would then need to mount it and direct the
> archive to that directory. Anything that is external would work even a USB
> hard drive connected to the Pi.
>
> You also have the option of saving it on another system but I would suggest
> not doing this over the Internet unless yo have a large pipe
>  at both ends. Saving to a local computer on the same LAN might be a better
> choice.
>
> You also could use broadcastify to save all audio to their site where it is
> archived and you can look back through it later. In this case it is not
> individual files. This would also give other and opportunity to listen to
> your repeater. A howto on broadcastify is on the hamvoip.org web page.
>
> 73 Doug
> WA3DSP
> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 8:07 PM, "John Huggins via arm-allstar"
> <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We put in a thumbdrive and set the archivedir to point to it.
>> Immediately we see .WAV files show up for every key-up to our
>> repeater. Kudos to the developers as this is exactly what we want.
>> Very cool.
>>
>> However, we noticed that during a system reboot all previous WAV files
>> are deleted. This is certainly not what we want.
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what is performing the delete action, but I assume
>> it is the hamvoip/allstar package.
>>
>> Question:
>>
>> Is there a way to prevent deletes of archived information to actually
>> make the archive directory an archive?
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> 73
>> John, kx4o
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