Subj : Re: Backup mystic
To   : Deyssman
From : Bucko
Date : Mon Mar 27 2023 06:10 pm


On 27 Mar 2023, Deyssman said the following...
 
 De> This is how I complete a backup. 
 De> bring down the BBS. 
 De> with a usb storage stick, backup the entire mystic directory with the
 De> use of windows file explorer. 
 De> After the backup is complete, I delete all of the log files from the bbs
 De> that is existing on the hard drive (within mystic- they can grow to be
 De> quite large) then I complete the process with maintenance mutil maint
 De> from the c:\mystic directory  Then restart the BBS 
 De> * This is is the same practice (backing it up) that I use before any I
 De> make any changes.  
 De> Hope this helps.

You know to make life a bit easier you might consider writing a .bat file to do it all.. When I was running in Windows, I had a bat file which every sunday morning would copy all of the logs to another directory and rename them the date then at the end of the month I would just zip up all the weekly logs and rename it the year and month.. You could probably toss backing up in it also.. That would be a simple add on to a bat file like that.. I currently run in Debian and use a bash script to do it, only thing I would like ot add to it is to zip up the weekly logs into a monthly pack..

Al

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