Subj : Migration Journey repost
To   : DavidG
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Jan 14 2025 12:40 pm

  Re: Migration Journey repost
  By: DavidG to All on Tue Jan 14 2025 11:46 am

 > step: migrating my Mystic BBS from Windows 10 (32-bit) to a Raspberry Pi 3
 > running Linux. Sounds simple, right? Well, it wasn't quite as smooth as you'


Doesn't sound simple at all. I've tried a couple of times and given up.

 > After struggling to make Synchronet BBS work (spoiler: it didn't), I had a
 > frustrating realization about Fidonet. It's hard not to notice how some folk
 > prefer to guard their knowledge like buried treasure, watching others
 > flounder instead of lending a hand. It's ironic, really, because hoarding
 > knowledge doesn't help anyone. In Colombia, we say, "No one takes their


I'd disagree. There's a user-contributed Wiki. Mystic guy has tons of videos on Youtube. Digital Man has his own video channel. Sure, there are some people out there who are less than supportive, but as long as you read the manual/wiki and ask intelligent questions, there's a lot of support out there.

 > But back to the story. Installing Mystic on Linux turned out to be
 > surprisingly quick and easy. Using WinSCP, I copied my *.ini and *.dat files
 > as well as the data, echomail, msgs, files, and themes directories, to
 > /home/sbbs/mystic. Then I ran mystic -cfg, adjusted the System Paths, and
 > updated the QWK General Settings to remove references to Windows paths.

 > The real challenge came with the message bases. I have around 350 echomail
 > areas, and changing them one by one was simply not an option. While explorin
 > the Message Base Editor, I realized the paths were relative
 > ($mystic\path\msgs\) instead of absolute. That sparked an idea: why not use
 > the Global option to update the path? I tested it with a few  FSXNet areas,
 > and it worked!


I have a ton of message bases I'd like to preserve, but they're in Synchronet's format. I've been playing with Mystic and could export the message areas from Synchronet and probably import them into Mystic, but I couldn't export the messages.
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