[IRCServices] Auto-Backup

[Strider]

If I am correct, there is a configuration option to indicate the frequency
that services saves the db to disk. I may not be correct though, I am often
wrong, heh.

Beau (Strider) Steward
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----- Original Message -----
From: "viperzpit" <viper at imagine2k.net>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Auto-Backup


> This isnt necessarily related to this except in this:
> Is it normal for the services DBs to get corrupted (read zeroed, blank db)
> about 1/3 times you use /operserv shutdown or die or restart?  I have
tried
> it under RedHat 7.1 and Debian Sid, both have the same problem... Might it
> be that I am using it with UnrealIRCd?  Any ideas... I have a crontab that
> copies the dbs to a rotated backup every 6 hours, but i don't know if an
> update is really needed or not before just copying the db's....  Also, on
> another note -- the dbs never have a problem if i just kill the services
> pid.  Really odd....
>
> viperzpit
> Imagination Network Administrator
> viper at imagine2k.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rayford Pomeroy" <rayfordp at mhonline.net>
> To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 11:43 PM
> Subject: [IRCServices] Auto-Backup
>
>
> > My shell provider likes to crash a lot and 90% of the time my databases
> > get corrupt. So I wrote a simple perl script that every 12 hours
> > archives the current databases. I was wondering if there was some way
> > that right before my script runs it could signal services to save to
> > disk? Thanks.
> >
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