Subj : Re: What maintenance do YOU run?
To   : paulie420
From : Warpslide
Date : Fri Sep 11 2020 11:43:54

On 11 Sep 2020, paulie420 said the following...
 
 pa> On your Mystic install, what daily/weekly maintenance do you run?

I have my mailin.ini set to also do message linking at the time of tossing,
it doesn't take very long, so why wait until nightly maintenance to do it?

ImportEchoMail     = true
FileToss           = true
LinkMessages       = true


I also have a maint.ini which I run nightly:

PurgeMessageBases  = true
PackMessageBases   = true
PackFileBases      = true
FileSort           = true
LinkMessages       = true
PurgeUserBase      = true
PackUserBase       = true

maint.ini is called from a .bat file which also 7zips the BBS directory and
then moves that .7z archive to a local NAS for safe keeping.

Most doors take care of themselves, but Usurpur tends to take a long time the
first time a user runs it on a new day, so I also force maintenance for
Usurper in the nightly maintenance.

I'm not sure of a graceful way to stop mis.exe from running on Windows, so I
just have a command in there to kill it and delete the mis.bsy file.  I also
have an option in there to delete any backups older than 7 days, which is
what the forfiles command does.  (forfiles doesn't like UNC paths so I map a
drive temporarily to do that).


@ECHO OFF
C:
CD \mystic
mutil.exe maint.ini
CD \Users\BBS\AppData\Local\Temp
TASKKILL /F /IM mis.exe /T
DEL \mystic\semaphore\mis.bsy
"\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -t7z nrbbs-%date%.7z c:\mystic\
MOVE nrbbs-%date%.7z "\\nas\Data\Jay Backups\BBS"
net use Z: "\\nas\Data\Jay Backups\BBS"
forfiles /p "Z:" /s /m *.* /D -7 /C "cmd /c del @path"
net use Z: /DELETE
CD \mystic\doors\usurper
USURPER.EXE /FMAINT
CD \mystic
mis.exe server

Of course I don't run door games anymore and am now running on a Raspberry
Pi, so I sill run the same maint.ini file but backups work a bit different.

I have a crontab entry set to run each night:

rsync -avz /home/pi/mystic/ /mnt/nas/Jay\ Backups/BBS/


Seems to do the job.

Jay

.... What do you call a laughing motorcycle? Yamahahaha.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
 * Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

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