Changing interval for retrying saving results to disk post-5.0.7

Dear CryoSPARC Team,

The release notes for 5.0.7 indicate that there is a configurable interval between retries when saving results to disk. How is this interval configured / how can we change this from the default 60 minutes?

I tried adding the following environment variable to our config.sh to switch from retrying every hour to every 4 hours, but it doesn’t seem to have changed anything after a restart of the CryoSPARC master:

export CRYOSPARC_AUTO_EXPORT_INSTANCE_CONFIG_INTERVAL_HOURS=4

Did I set the wrong environment variable here?

Many thanks,

John Pellman

Hi John:

Are you looking for the
CRYOSPARC_AUTODUMP_RETRY_INTERVAL_MINUTES variable?

Would you like to share details of your use case where 240 (minutes) would be a more suitable value than the default?

Hi @wtempel ,

The main issue we have with the default setting is that it generates a large number of notifications in our instance for projects that need to be cleaned up or that are on volumes where a quota has been violated (24 per day per problematic project). We don’t want to disable notifications completely (because we want these issues to be resolved properly), but if there are too many notifications then our microscope operators find it difficult to navigate the web UI to perform everyday tasks. According to our operators, dismissing one of these alerts doesn’t prevent it from reappearing on the hour.

Thanks @jpellman for the feedback.