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- | **Enable:** This turns on the Bandwith Monitoring feature. (Default: Enabled). | + | \\ |
- | **Save History Location:** This menu allows you choose where Bandwidth Monitoring | + | **Enable:** Checking this turns on the Bandwidth Monitoring |
- | | + | **Save History Location:** From this menu, you choose where Bandwidth Monitoring history files are saved. |
- | * NVRAM - This saves Bandwidth Monitoring history to the router' | + | |
- | * JFFS2 - This will save monitoring files to a portion of the router' | + | The options include: |
- | * CIFS1 - This will make FreshTomato write bandwidth logs to the first external CIFS network share configured. CIFS Client connections to CIFS shares are configured in the **[[: | + | |
- | * CIFS2 - This will let FreshTomato write bandwidth statistics to the second external CIFS share. CIFS network shares are configured in the Administration/ | + | |
- | * Custom Path. This allows you to create a custom directory within the JFFS2 storage space. This is useful when you are also using JFFS2 for other storage tasks, and want to organize your storage into folders | + | * This is temporary |
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+ | * NVRAM - This will save Bandwidth Monitoring history to NVRAM. | ||
+ | * NVRAM is permanent storage, but is often tiny on routers. | ||
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+ | * JFFS2 - This will save monitoring files to a portion of flash RAM formatted with the Journalling Flash File System, a log-structured file system. | ||
+ | * JFFS partitions are managed | ||
+ | * Storage | ||
+ | * FreshTomato and any JFFS2 partitions | ||
+ | * The larger the build, the less space there will be for JFFS2 partitions. | ||
+ | * The upgrade process must rewrite the whole flash chip, and data on JFFS is destroyed. | ||
+ | * To avoid this, FreshTomato prevents you from allowing a firmware upgrade until JFFS is disabled. | ||
+ | * You must back up the data on your JFFS storage before a firmware upgrade. | ||
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+ | * CIFS1 - This makes FreshTomato write bandwidth logs to the first external CIFS network share. | ||
+ | * CIFS Client connections to CIFS shares are configured in the **[[: | ||
+ | * CIFS is the Common Internet File System, a version of Microsoft' | ||
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+ | * CIFS2 - This will let FreshTomato write bandwidth statistics to the second external CIFS share. | ||
+ | * CIFS network shares are configured in the Administration/ | ||
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+ | * Custom Path - This allows you to create a custom directory within the JFFS2 storage space. | ||
+ | * This is useful when using JFFS2 for other storage tasks, and want to organize your storage into folders. | ||
(Default: RAM). | (Default: RAM). | ||
- | **Save Frequency: | + | **Save Frequency: |
- | **Save on Shutdown: | + | **Save on Shutdown: |
- | **Create New File: | + | **Create New File: |
- | **Create Backups: | + | **Create Backups: |
- | **First Day of the Month: | + | **First Day of the Month: |
- | **Excluded Interfaces: | + | **Excluded Interfaces: |
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===== Restore ===== | ===== Restore ===== | ||
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