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* It reads the daily log and uses the rainfall totals for each day stored in the daily summary log to calculate the rainfall for this month, and this year/season (see [[FAQ#Where_does_Cumulus_get_its_this_month_and_this_year_rainfall_totals_from.3F|this Cumulus 1 FAQ]])
* It reads the daily log and uses the rainfall totals for each day stored in the daily summary log to calculate the rainfall for this month, and this year/season (see [[FAQ#Where_does_Cumulus_get_its_this_month_and_this_year_rainfall_totals_from.3F|this Cumulus 1 FAQ]])
* Thus you must not have another process attempting access to the daily log when Cumulus is re-starting.
* Thus you must not have another process attempting access to the daily log when Cumulus is re-starting.
* Back ups of all the log files mentioned here (not all the log files) including dayfile.txt are copied to the 'cumulus\backup' folder, the last 8 start-up folders only are retained.
* For Cumulus 1, back ups of 8 selected log files including dayfile.txt that are copied to start-up folders in the 'cumulus\backup' folder, the last 8 start-up folders only are retained.
* For Cumulus MX, there are backups of 10 files, the extra ones are the weather diary and Cumulus.ini, that are  copied to start-up folders in \CumulusMX\backup\, again there are only 9 kept, unless you back these up somewhere else.


== How you can use the daily log ==
== How you can use the daily log ==
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