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outdoorbits / little-backup-box

This software turns a single-board computer into a versatile, pocket-sized backup solution. Especially for digital photography, this is the solution for backing up images and media files on mass storage devices when traveling or at events. Media content can be viewed and rated for the subsequent process.
http://littlebackupbox.com
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memory issue or is the pi3 (1GB RAM) not sufficient to run littel-backup-box? #184

Closed smu closed 1 year ago

smu commented 1 year ago

At the moment pi4 models are hard to get so I though lets use one the pi3 models lying around to test your interesting software. The installation worked fine, however, when importing photos from my camera the pi3 runs out of memory within minutes.

I know that a pi4 is recommended (due to the USB 3.0 ports). The pi3 has 1 GB of memory. Isn't this enough to run little-backup-box.

Below you can see a screenshot of bpytop, with shows how the systems runs out of memory..

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outdoorbits commented 1 year ago

I didn't check LBB for Pi 3 but there are reports, it's running on Pi zero. So I wouldn't expect problems in Pi 3. Did you install raspbian 32 bit light?

smu commented 1 year ago

thanks for the answer and good to know. Yes, I installed raspbian 32 bit light.

Knowing that it should in general be possible to use a Pi 3, I will make a few more tests to understand this issue.

outdoorbits commented 1 year ago

Maybe I have a Pi 3 somewhere, if yes, I'll check next week...

ruebyi commented 1 year ago

Sorry, I sold my Pi3 two Weeks ago, so I'm not able to test...

smu commented 1 year ago

I think I found the problem. Either I have a problem with the power supply or my external USB hard disc is broken. The PI runs out of memory, when the connection to the external drive is lost while importing photos. Using another drive everything works fine.

Sorry, I should have checked the log files for this yesterday. Now this issue can be closed as solved, i guess. thanks for you support!

outdoorbits commented 1 year ago

There have been some problems of power supply. Usually they are solved by a powered USB hub. For tested devices have a look at the wiki.