Traffic Totals Retention
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Does Traffic Totals only keep data for the current year? I just realized all of my data for the prior year is gone.
Looks like there are some settings related to vnstat that might be able to control retention but when I look in /usr/local/etc/vnstat.conf there is a big banner telling me the file was automatically generated and I should not edit it.
Thoughts?
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I lost all my traffic totals with the update to 26.3. Did you update recently?
I’d been led to believe that the system retained package data even when packages are removed for updates, but that seems untrue for traffic totals.
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@Mission-Ghost So I just installed Traffic Totals last year in 2025 and it was chugging along happily. I recently noticed that I no longer had any data for 2025; January 2026 was the first month for which i had any metrics.
I assumed this lack of data from 2025 was due to a retention policy and not upgrade, but maybe tit is related somehow? I upgraded to 26.03 within the past month and still have data prior to the upgrade, albeit its all just this year. I don't recall if prior to the update if I had any 2025 data in 2026.
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@codechurn puzzling. I've only had trouble with the data vanishing during an OS update.
I've never seen any setting related to this package like a retention policy. Where do you see that?
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@Mission-Ghost My understanding is that Traffic Totals uses vnstat for data collection. There are a whole host of options that can be set in the /usr/local/etc/vnstat.conf file. Only 1 or two of them are exposed via the GUI.