Lagless Server Backups

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by ffcmike

Your post needs to be more explosive.

[cbk1994]

bump

[MattKan]

Originally Posted by ffcmike

Top 10 of npcs taken most CPU time:
1. 73.973551591 % *Beer

Hm, maybe you should lay off the alcohol...

[cbk1994]

Bump because it's ridiculous on Era right now. At least move the backups to a time when we don't have 80 players on if you won't fix them.

[WhiteDragon]

Same lag on Classic.

[ffcmike]

I'm wondering if these backups are backing up absolutely everything uploaded to a server.
While most of the contents of the levels folder, plus the scripts, npcs, weapons, databases and accounts folder would be essential, folders such as logs, temporary folders and personaluploads might not be.

Classic happens to have a copy of the pre-wipe account files uploaded in a separate folder, which is roughly 377 megabytes and something we never use, plus a folder specifically for manual backups which is rarely added to.

Perhaps there could be a form of serveroption to specify non-default folders which should be included in backups.

[Crono]

stefan's been messing around with it so i think something is being done about it?

[fowlplay4]

Stefan's been logging on to Zodiac the last couple days and providing info about it.

By the sounds of it they're re-seeding the entire backup, as too many garbage files (in particular *.arc on certain servers) caused the backup to break down.

*.arc files will no longer be backed up automatically as well I've heard.

[Crono]

if you back up arcs

you're gonna have a bad time

[cbk1994]

I hope he knows arc files are being used on some servers for other things than just GBall. Ideally he should have just made it known that the folder "backups" should be used for that stuff since it's not included in his server backups.