OH3: unexpected power loss; major drama and question marks after restart

[Wolfgang_S]

@Max_G

Still, the ZRAM business (based on this experience) is not to my liking.

I am thinking of backing up OH on a at least daily basis. However, I suspect this will not capture the ZRAM data.

Is there any guidance on how to get around this issue?

based on

ZRAM nightly sync, openhab service restart

It’s unclear what you did to your system. Did you reinstall the openhab package only ? Or the OS ? Syncing ZRAM no longer requires to restart OH so openHABian no longer does this in quite some time. As it obviously does on your system I believe you’re still running an ancient OS setup. It’s /etc/systemd/system/zsync.service usually calling /usr/local/sbin/zram-config. You can replace the latter with the latest version from https://github.com/ecdye/zram-config. Well or you can install every…

as far as I understand it should be possiblt to regularly sync ZRAM content back to the disk which is also described here sync-files-to-disk