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These instructions apply whether you are upgrading to/from a beta version or a 'release' version. | These instructions apply whether you are upgrading to/from a beta version or a 'release' version. | ||
== Moving Cumulus software to a new PC (or updating Windows Operating System) == | |||
Cumulus will continue to work with your existing weather station and existing log files, providing | |||
#Your Windows regional settings are the same (i.e. date format unchanged, decimal point symbol unchanged, list sparator character unchanged) - if there is a difference, the new installation cannot understand the old lines in the file and will give an error when Cumulus is restarted. | |||
#You may need to 'tweak' a few things (serial port number etc) in [[cumulus.ini]]. | |||
#The Cumulus 'data' sub-folder has been copied across, together with 'cumulus.ini' from the folder with cumulus.exe in it, and if you have created a 'strings.ini' that file too. | |||
#Obviously if you use customised web pages, then you need the corresponding templates in the new installation. | |||
#Any other customised files (images and/or a twitter.txt file, for example), you may want to copy those over too. | |||
== How do I back up my data (or view it in another Cumulus installation) ? == | |||
*Copy the contents of the Cumulus ‘data’ sub-folder on a regular basis to a different storage device. Then if you have any problem with the original storage device, or corruption of files, you can minimise the loss of logged observations. | |||
*It can be useful to take copies of the Cumulus 'backup' sub-folder on key dates (e.g. just after change of month or year), or if you think you might have some rogue figures. The '.ini' files in the backup sub-folder contain past extreme values that you might want to look up. | |||
*You should also back up, at least once, your cumulus.ini file in the main Cumulusfolder. This contains all the key settings and you need a record of those! | |||
Such a back-up can be viewed in Cumulus installed on another PC (see point about Windows regional settings in previous question) to look at past extremes or graphs; although obviously that additional installation will not be able to add further observations from the weather station connected to the original PC. | |||
== Moving Cumulus software to a different location on your PC? == | |||
This article in the wiki gives more details above moving Cumulus: [[Moving cumulus]] | |||
== What are the formats of the Cumulus data files? == | == What are the formats of the Cumulus data files? == | ||