Subj : Re: Backup mystic
To   : esc
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Mar 28 2023 07:32 am

-=> esc wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> In the context of the original-ish post of this thread, I can find no
 Ga> valid/acceptable reason to *NOT* stop the BBS/server before doing a
 Ga> backup.  Especially an incremental (e.g. 'rysnc' type thing) backup, as
 Ga> the whole process of shutdown/backup/startup likely takes about a single
 Ga> minute.  Even a complete backup might take 5 minutes.

 es> My only concern would be that I don't think Mystic gives any sort
 es> of "we're going to have an outage in 30 minutes" thing, but it's
 es> not like users would really care. *shrug*

One way around the automated methods, where a user might get dumped, is 
to just do it manually now and then.  When you see that nobody is logged 
on, just run a script to stop/backup/start, and the odds are very high 
that it'll be done before anyone tries to log in anyway.  I mean, we are 
talking about a BBS here, not national security stuff...  ;-)



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