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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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