Cumulus Support

I currently run Cumulus on a netbook running Windows 7 Pro connected to my VP2 and I also use the netbook to run a few other tasks, one of which is to Robocopy some files as a backup over a Rasdial VPN connection from a remote Synology NAS to a local Synology NAS under a scheduled process.
When Steve launches the new version of Cumulus, I would love to replace the netbook with a Raspberry, but not knowing much about Linux at this stage, would it be possible to still carry this task out on the Raspberry under Linux?

Cheers

I don't see why not, you'll have to use different utilities of course. I haven't set up a VPN on a rPi, but I can't imagine that it can't be done. The rPi isn't the fastest thing around, but it should be able to copy files over the network OK.

mcrossley wrote:The rPi isn't the fastest thing around, but it should be able to copy files over the network OK.

RPi 2 is quad core though and reckoned to be very roughly 3x faster for a single core if I've understood the announcement correctly. Also 1GB RAM. News in several places but eg

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/02/raspberry-pi-2/

Looks interesting. And runs Windows 10...

And Windows 10 will be 'free of charge'* for the rPi. It will be interesting to see how fast that would run, I expect the Raspbian distro will still be the fav.

* http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/r ... pi2support

I've ordered a Pi2, and registered for the IoT Development program.

I have ordered one as well but I am using mine as a Video server, as I already have Acer Revo RL80 running the weather station.

Thanks all. Interesting info about the RPi2, have also now ordered one to play with and figure out VPN's and file copying but could I also assume Windows 10 will be more familiar for me and "theoretically" run Robocopy and of course setup VPN's in a similar way to Win7 I wonder?

I use filezilla to copy files to my pi. Works well from my windows pc. PuTTY also useful.

Geoff......

Boa noite , sou do Brasil , meu computador faz muito barulho , então decidi comprar um raspberry pra colocar o cumulus , irei conseguir ? Apenas pra mandar os dados pro wunderground e pegar os dados no fim do mes , tem o softare cumulus pra linux ? Me ajudem ?

Olá William:

Desculpe, eu não falo Português por isso este é o Google Translate.

Quando o novo Cumulus MX 3.0 é liberado ele vai trabalhar com Linux e assim também em Raspberry Pi. Agora MX 3.0 está em testes beta por isso ainda não está geralmente disponível.

--Kurt

Were you successful in getting it to run on Raspberry PI with Windows IOT?

Hi Browse,

I have transferred over to running CumulusMX from an RPi2 but I didn't use IoT in the end, I am running it on Debian. I found other ways of doing the backups not using the RPi.
I think there are a few posts elsewhere on here from people who run on IoT.

I'm pretty sure MX won't run on Windows 10 IoT - the .Net Micro Framework is far too limited.