[IRCServices] Auto-Backup

[Michael Smith]

You could write a bot to login 5 minutes before you do your script and
oper up, and send '/msg operserv update' which would write everything to
disk.

Mike

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Michael Smith (Warlock on IRC)
http://www.warlock.web.za/
"The software said Windows95 or better...
                ...so I got Linux"


On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Andrew Church wrote:

> >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.
>
>      You can't do this, but if you keep UpdateTimeout (in services.conf)
> low enough then you shouldn't have much data loss--especially since your
> backup interval is 12 hours anyway, so an extra 30 minutes (default) give
> or take won't make a significant difference.
>
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/
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