That's easy. Put the image file you download onto the flash card. I installed the orange pi normal operating system onto the flash card. Then I copied the image file they provide from SA onto the card too.
Probably not my last at this point.I was quite surprised how fast the little pi machines are. The os is just arm linux but its very robust. Cool little machines.I have more Pi learning to do. All my experience since '93 has been Linux on PCs. This is my first Pi.
Make a directory call /backups on the SA drive and then save this script out and run it. I cut this out of a backup script I wrote that automatically backups my database on schedule.
#!/bin/bash
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
echo "Stopping influxdb..."
systemctl stop influxdb
echo "Taring /var/lib/influxdb to /mnt/nfs/solar_assistant_backup ..."
logger Taring /var/lib/influxdb to /mnt/nfs/solar_assistant_backup ...
cd /var/lib
tar -cvf /mnt/nfs/solar_assistant_backup/var_lib_influxdb_$(date +%Y%m%d).tar influxdb
echo "Done."
logger Done
echo "Starting influxdb."
logger Starting influxdb
systemctl start influxdb
echo "Done."
logger Done
echo "Removing backups older than 30 days..."
logger Removing backups older than 30 days...
find /mnt/nfs/solar_assistant_backup -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;
echo "Done."
logger Done
root@solar:/var/tmp# dd if=/dev/zero of=./largefile bs=1M count=1024 conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 21.8935 s, 49.0 MB/s
root@solar:/var/tmp# sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
root@solar:/var/tmp# dd if=./largefile of=/dev/null bs=1M
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 8.52819 s, 126 MB/sI dunno how large the DEV team is at SA, but I would think exposing all values that SA collects through MQTT should be something SA would want to put towards the top of their roadmap. Have you thought about bringing this to them for consideration?
