Restoring bandwidth usage data?

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chuser
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Restoring bandwidth usage data?

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I have a couple of years of bandwidth usage data which I like to look at from time to time. My router's 2.4Ghz interface died so I had to replace it with a new model of the same router. I downloaded my bandwidth usage data before I unplugged the old router, how can I restore it?

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Re: Restoring bandwidth usage data?

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You can try the following, but it is not guaranteed and may require you to failsafe reset your device to make it work again.

1. /etc/init.d/bwmon_gargoyle stop
2. rm -rf /usr/data/bwmon/*
3. Copy your backup /usr/data/bwmon/ onto the router
4. /etc/init.d/bwmon_gargoyle start

It will either work, or you'll have loaded corrupted data and have to reset it.
Good luck :)
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chuser
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Re: Restoring bandwidth usage data?

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I just have a "bandwidth.csv" which is what the router gave me when I asked it to back up the data.

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You cannot load the CSV. That button doesn’t say “backup” right? It’s just for downloading and viewing/processing offline.

If you did a backup of the router configuration this would include the data backups I was describing.
If you want to do some coding and you know python, you may be able to construct data files from the csv but this is entirely unsupported.
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