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  • Backing Up Mystic On the Fly

    From SHIFT838@21:4/164 to All on Mon Nov 11 19:13:50 2019
    Being new to Mystic I wanted to pose a question.

    How does a sysop typically backup their Mystic BBS? Is it only certain files or do they typically just backup the whole directory and sub-directories?

    Can a backup be done on the fly while Mystic BBS is running using a like a scheduled Linux job ?

    Thanks,


    SHIFT838
    FuSiON BBS
    fusion.zapto.org:9900

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: FuSiON BBS (21:4/164)
  • From lemonlime@21:4/162 to SHIFT838 on Tue Nov 12 21:11:46 2019
    Being new to Mystic I wanted to pose a question.

    How does a sysop typically backup their Mystic BBS? Is it only certain files or do they typically just backup the whole directory and sub-directories?

    Can a backup be done on the fly while Mystic BBS is running using a like
    a scheduled Linux job ?

    Thanks,

    Hi SHIFT838,

    Although I just use full VM snapshot-based backups for my BBS, it is
    definitely possible to just backup the entire mystic directory. I've done
    this successfully when migrating my BBS from one machine to another. I'm not sure if it is required, but it would probably be a good idea to do a "mis shutdown" before trying to archive the directory to prevent any locked files
    or files in transit.

    Just a simple "tar -czvf ~/backups/backup-date.tgz /mystic" or something to that effect should work fine.

    Cheers,
    Mike

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Stellar Darkness BBS, Toronto, Canada (21:4/162)