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    From Rixter@rixter@RICKSBBS.remove-i1j-this to All on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 12:43:11
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    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@nightfox@DIGDIST.remove-mi8-this to Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 13:39:48
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    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 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@nelgin@EOTLBBS.remove-u8-this to Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 15:40:19
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    To: Rixter
    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@kk4qbn@KK4QBN.remove-ox7-this to Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 16:16:41
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    To: Rixter
    Re: Reboot schedule for bbs
    By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 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.

    Updates and crashes..
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  • From phigan@phigan@TACOPRON.remove-t0q-this to Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 16:43:16
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    To: Rixter
    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+@bf2k+@TACOPRON.remove-t0q-this to Rixter on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 16:53:13
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    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@rixter@RICKSBBS.remove-zww-this to nelgin on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 20:37:04
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    To: nelgin
    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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    Thank you for the advice. 😎

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  • From Gamgee@gamgee@PALANTIR.remove-n7-this to nelgin on Tuesday, August 06, 2024 20:06:21
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    To: nelgin
    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@nelgin@EOTLBBS.remove-g00-this to Gamgee on Wednesday, August 07, 2024 02:00:43
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    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@gamgee@PALANTIR.remove-11oe-this to nelgin on Wednesday, August 07, 2024 07:56:00
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    To: nelgin
    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.

    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.

    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>



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  • From Dumas Walker@dumas.walker@CAPCITY2.remove-ih3-this to RIXTER on Wednesday, August 07, 2024 08:36:00
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    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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