Hi all, i had a question. is there a way to backup a mystic configuration? so incase your BBS blows up bad, there would be a way of restoring the settings from an exported config file? i am hoping something like this exists.

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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On 16 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

Hi all, i had a question. is there a way to backup a mystic
configuration? so incase your BBS blows up bad, there would be a way of restoring the settings from an exported config file? i am hoping
something like this exists.

Depends on the OS, but there are a number of programs for backing up stuff.
I backup the whole directory and subdirectories with rsync, but there are
many programs for backups. The rsync runs via ssh so is encrypted and can
run over the net to servers anywhere. There are a large number of cloud backup methods these days as well, also encrypted. Likely good to use more than one method and location so it takes more than one fault point to really fail.

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On 04/16/2021 12:11 pm gcubebuddy said...

Hi all, i had a question. is there a way to backup a mystic configuration? so incase your BBS blows up bad, there would be a way of restoring the settings from an exported config file? i am hoping something like this exists.

I just added a command in the sysop menu and it executed a shell - but I'm on linux - you should be able to do the same with windows using zip. For linux, it was a tar command that backed my entire mystic directory (which only equated to about 9mb since I didn't back up the file section). I suppose you could put it in an event scheduler - but I just kept it manual.

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telnet westwoodbbs.net 8888 (ssh 8889)
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I just added a command in the sysop menu and it executed a shell - but
I'm on linux - you should be able to do the same with windows using zip. For linux, it
was a tar command that backed my entire mystic directory (which only equated to
about 9mb since I didn't back up the file section). I suppose you could put it in an event scheduler - but I just kept it manual.

Does anyone know, in what file the settings are stored?

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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On 19 Apr 2021, gcubebuddy said the following...

Does anyone know, in what file the settings are stored?

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

Most are stored in mystic.dat, but there are increasing .ini and other settings files in mystic root and data, even some in text so it's hard to
get them all. Themes are of course under /mystic/themes for the most part. That's some of the reason I use rsync and backup the whole file structure
to other drives and systems.

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Most are stored in mystic.dat, but there are increasing .ini and other settings files in mystic root and data, even some in text so it's hard to get them all. Themes are of course under /mystic/themes for the most
part. That's some of the reason I use rsync and backup the whole file structure to other drives and systems.

ah ok ya. i have been doing the same thing too. interesting about the dat
file. if i remember right, it doesnt appear like you can read the contents of the dat file either.

Thanks
- Gamecube Buddy

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