On your Mystic install, what daily/weekly maintenance do you run? It might
even be nice to have any scripts that you run pasted into the message so that sysops from different platforms can search fsx and find the info.

I'm on Linux, so thats what I'm hunting... however if this post gets any traction it would be beneficial for all types of systems. Be sure to specify, for those who might not know how to decipher the commands.



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* Origin: American Pi BBS (21:2/150)

On 11 Sep 2020, paulie420 said the following...

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.

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On 11 Sep 2020, Warpslide said the following...

On your Mystic install, what daily/weekly maintenance do you run?

One thing I forgot...

I also have a nodelist.ini file which I run every Friday evening to import
the updated weekly nodelists:

[General]

MergeNodeLists = true

logfile=mutil.log
logcache=true
loglevel=2
logtype = 0
maxlogfiles = 3
maxlogsize = 1000

[MergeNodeLists]

strip_down = true
strip_private = true

nodefile=/home/pi/mystic/files/fdn_FSX_NODE nodefile=/home/pi/mystic/files/fdn_MIN_LIST nodefile=/home/pi/mystic/files/fdn_NODELIST

Jay

... Want to hear a joke about paper? Never mind, it's tearable.

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Seems to do the job.
Jay
... What do you call a laughing motorcycle? Yamahahaha.

Very nice, Warp... I'm on all-linux systems but know how to suck out all the data of what you're doing. I like how you do some message maint as it goes...

I don't know if I want to announce it, but I haven't done any maintenance of
my bbs! So... well; I guess I do backups and I packed the msg/user bases once because there were deleted users and msgs. BUT... I don't have a hands-off system.

I'm going to put most all of what you stated into operation. Wonder if others post anything new - heck maybe even something that helps a veteran out.

Thanks for sharing, I appreciate it.



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