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Restoring bandwidth usage data?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2023 9:38 am
by chuser
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?
Re: Restoring bandwidth usage data?
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:09 am
by Lantis
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
Re: Restoring bandwidth usage data?
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:09 am
by chuser
I just have a "bandwidth.csv" which is what the router gave me when I asked it to back up the data.
Re: Restoring bandwidth usage data?
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:04 pm
by Lantis
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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