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... ;-)
