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Reboot schedule for bbs
From
Rixter@VERT/RICKSBBS to
All on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 12:43:11
How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my board
Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.
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From
Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to
Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 13:39:48
Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 12:43 pm
Ri> How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my
Ri> board Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.
These days I rarely reboot mine. I'm currently running my BBS on Linux, and I don't know how much difference that makes, but I've often let it run for a long time and it seems okay. Usually I only reboot the PC when I do a software update that involves an OS kernel update.
Nightfox
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From
nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to
Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 15:40:19
On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 12:43:11 -0400
"Rixter" (VERT/RICKSBBS) <VERT/RICKSBBS!Rixter@endofthelinebbs.com>
wrote:
> How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my
> board Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.
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I reboot it whenever I update, which depends on how many updates there
are. I don't schedule any sort of reboot.
If you're worried about corruption of message bases, you can go through
and lock them all before doing an update.
smbutil options
L = lock a msg base for exclusive-access/backup
U = unlock a msg base
You'll obviously have to loop through all the bases, or you can just
take your chances.
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From
kk4qbn@VERT/KK4QBN to
Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 16:16:41
Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 12:43:11
Ri> How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my
Ri> board Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.
Updates and crashes..
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From
phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to
Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 16:43:16
Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 12:43 pm
> How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my board
What year is it?
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From
Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to
Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 16:53:13
Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 12:43 pm
> How often do you reboot your BBS PC?
Probably about once a week... but it isn't done automatically anymore... just when I feel like it.
Years ago, when my ISP liked to change my IP address whenever they felt like it, I had it automatically rebooting once a day.
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From
Rixter@VERT/RICKSBBS to
nelgin on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 20:37:04
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 12:43:11 -0400
> "Rixter" (VERT/RICKSBBS) <VERT/RICKSBBS!Rixter@endofthelinebbs.com>
> wrote:
> I reboot it whenever I update, which depends on how many updates there
> are. I don't schedule any sort of reboot.
> If you're worried about corruption of message bases, you can go through
> and lock them all before doing an update.
> smbutil options
> L = lock a msg base for exclusive-access/backup
> U = unlock a msg base
> You'll obviously have to loop through all the bases, or you can just
> take your chances.
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From
Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to
nelgin on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 20:06:21
Re: Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: nelgin to Rixter on Tue Aug 06 2024 03:40 pm
> > How often do you reboot your BBS PC? I was just curious. I stopped my
> > board Sunday for a 15 minute backup and did a reboot afterwards.
> I reboot it whenever I update, which depends on how many updates there
> are. I don't schedule any sort of reboot.
Same here. I also do after I've run "fstrim" for maintenance on the SSD, which I try to do every 10-14 days.
> If you're worried about corruption of message bases, you can go through
> and lock them all before doing an update.
> smbutil options
> L = lock a msg base for exclusive-access/backup
> U = unlock a msg base
> You'll obviously have to loop through all the bases, or you can just
> take your chances.
I cannot understand why anyone would do something like this. Why do such a
thing instead of just shutting down the BBS, then updating, and then restarting it? Makes no sense to me.
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From
nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to
Gamgee on Wednesday, August 07, 2024 02:00:43
Re: Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
By: Gamgee to nelgin on Tue Aug 06 2024 20:06:21
> I cannot understand why anyone would do something like this. Why do such a
> thing instead of just shutting down the BBS, then updating, and then
> restarting it? Makes no sense to me.
Why would you shut the board down when you can just lock your message bases and do a backup? Doesn't make sense to me.
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From
Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to
nelgin on Wednesday, August 07, 2024 07:56:00
-=> nelgin wrote to Gamgee <=-
> I cannot understand why anyone would do something like this. Why do such a
> thing instead of just shutting down the BBS, then updating, and then
> restarting it? Makes no sense to me.
ne> Why would you shut the board down when you can just lock your message
ne> bases and do a backup? Doesn't make sense to me.
Because, as you said yourself, it reduces risks. File corruption,
invalid backup, etc. If you've got locked/open files, are you really
getting a backup of everything? Plus, it's significantly more
work/hassle to do it that way. <SHRUG>
... As a matter of fact, it IS a banana in my pocket.
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From
Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to
RIXTER on Wednesday, August 07, 2024 08:36:00
Nightfox said to you:
> These days I rarely reboot mine. I'm currently running my BBS on Linux, and I
> don't know how much difference that makes, but I've often let it run for a lon
> time and it seems okay. Usually I only reboot the PC when I do a software
> update that involves an OS kernel update.
My answer would be the same as this... I only reboot when there is some OS
upgrade where I believe it is required or a good idea. Otherwise, I try
not to reboot it.
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