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    From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to All on Friday, April 16, 2021 12:11:32
    Hi all, i had a question. is there a way to backup a mystic configuration? so incase your BBS blows up bad, there would be a way of restoring the settings from an exported config file? i am hoping something like this exists.

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

    telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Hive32 (21:4/129)
  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to gcubebuddy on Friday, April 16, 2021 11:50:49
    On 16 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

    Hi all, i had a question. is there a way to backup a mystic
    configuration? so incase your BBS blows up bad, there would be a way of restoring the settings from an exported config file? i am hoping
    something like this exists.

    Depends on the OS, but there are a number of programs for backing up stuff.
    I backup the whole directory and subdirectories with rsync, but there are
    many programs for backups. The rsync runs via ssh so is encrypted and can
    run over the net to servers anywhere. There are a large number of cloud backup methods these days as well, also encrypted. Likely good to use more than one method and location so it takes more than one fault point to really fail.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/08 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org:23 (21:1/145)
  • From Nuke@21:3/134 to gcubebuddy on Friday, April 16, 2021 20:24:46

    On 04/16/2021 12:11 pm gcubebuddy said...
    Hi all, i had a question. is there a way to backup a mystic configuration? so incase your BBS blows up bad, there would be a way of restoring the settings from an exported config file? i am hoping something like this exists.

    I just added a command in the sysop menu and it executed a shell - but I'm on linux - you should be able to do the same with windows using zip. For linux, it was a tar command that backed my entire mystic directory (which only equated to about 9mb since I didn't back up the file section). I suppose you could put it in an event scheduler - but I just kept it manual.

    -- Nuke

    --
    ~Nuke SYSOP Westwood BBS II King George VA USA
    nuke@21:3/134 (fsx) 25:25/19 (metro) nuke@westwoodbbs.net (new crap)
    telnet westwoodbbs.net 8888 (ssh 8889)
    --- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.12-beta (linux; x64; 12.22.0)
    * Origin: Westwood BBS II (21:3/134)
  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Nuke on Monday, April 19, 2021 12:16:22
    I just added a command in the sysop menu and it executed a shell - but
    I'm on linux - you should be able to do the same with windows using zip. For linux, it
    was a tar command that backed my entire mystic directory (which only equated to
    about 9mb since I didn't back up the file section). I suppose you could put it in an event scheduler - but I just kept it manual.


    Does anyone know, in what file the settings are stored?

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

    telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Hive32 (21:4/129)
  • From bcw142@21:1/145 to gcubebuddy on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 20:47:38
    On 19 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

    Does anyone know, in what file the settings are stored?

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

    Most are stored in mystic.dat, but there are increasing .ini and other settings files in mystic root and data, even some in text so it's hard to
    get them all. Themes are of course under /mystic/themes for the most part. That's some of the reason I use rsync and backup the whole file structure
    to other drives and systems.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/04/08 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org:23 (21:1/145)
  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to bcw142 on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 11:54:22
    Most are stored in mystic.dat, but there are increasing .ini and other settings files in mystic root and data, even some in text so it's hard to get them all. Themes are of course under /mystic/themes for the most
    part. That's some of the reason I use rsync and backup the whole file structure to other drives and systems.

    ah ok ya. i have been doing the same thing too. interesting about the dat
    file. if i remember right, it doesnt appear like you can read the contents of the dat file either.

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

    telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Hive32 (21:4/129)