Fb is now once again actually recording trends.
A section of the daqdrc file (located in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/target/fb/ directory) had been commented out by Alex and never uncommented. This section included the commands which actually make the fb record trends.
The section now reads as:
# comment out this block to stop saving data
#
start frame-saver;
sync frame-saver;
start trender;
start trend-frame-saver;
sync trend-frame-saver;
start minute-trend-frame-saver;
sync minute-trend-frame-saver;
start raw_minute_trend_saver;
#start frame-writer "225.225.225.1" broadcast="131.215.113.0" all;
#sleep 5; |