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Molly · 12-17-2007, 10:39 AM

We actually do have a backup script that zips up and sends the code and pfiles daily, which is why the gameplay wasn't affected, except by the downtime. Doing the same for our very large world seemed a bit over-extended, especially when you pay for a server that is supposed to keep daily backups. Even zipped, the world files take up almost 20,000,000 and that is a bit much to handle on a daily basis, at least for my computer. We did take safety backups of the world files ourselves once a month, however, and that's what saved us from total disaster. We'll probably do it once a week from now on.

It would actually be interesting to know how many Muds that take daily backups of their world files themselves, (I mean, apart from the ones that the server is doing).

The server is still down, and we still don't know what happened, so I doubt we'll get any help from there.

12-17-2007, 10:39 AM	#4
Molly Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Sweden Home MUD: 4 Dimensions Posts: 574	Re: 4 Dimensions is moving on We actually do have a backup script that zips up and sends the code and pfiles daily, which is why the gameplay wasn't affected, except by the downtime. Doing the same for our very large world seemed a bit over-extended, especially when you pay for a server that is supposed to keep daily backups. Even zipped, the world files take up almost 20,000,000 and that is a bit much to handle on a daily basis, at least for my computer. We did take safety backups of the world files ourselves once a month, however, and that's what saved us from total disaster. We'll probably do it once a week from now on. It would actually be interesting to know how many Muds that take daily backups of their world files themselves, (I mean, apart from the ones that the server is doing). The server is still down, and we still don't know what happened, so I doubt we'll get any help from there.