To: Kurt Weiske
  Re: Re: What older computers you got?
  By: Kurt Weiske to Chad Adams on Sun Dec 03 2023 10:02 am

 >  CA> hardware running. Especially the low cost of VMs that will run a BBS
 >  CA> now!
 >
 > Snapshots.
 >
 > There's no better feeling than screwing up your BBS running as a virtual
 > machine, then reverting to the snapshot you took before screwing it up.
 > 
 >
 > Compare to the times I screwed up my BBS on bare metal and had to look
 > for my backup script and put everything back manually - then missing
 > messages dating back to the backup date.

With all the doorgames i run on my bbses, some of them barf for no good reason.
i'd rather not restore a 'snapshot'. I've even had my irc bots just stop
working correctly with some functions and when looking at the code i can't
figure out wtf is going on because it all looks fine.

That's why i make backups every week, and backup the entire system periodically.

I can drop in an extract backups and get stuff working in a pinch.
I'm not going to overwrite something that doesn't need to be overwritten.

I haven't really had an issue with the actually operating systems(yet).

But i swear, i'm one of the small handful of guys in the bbs community that
actually backs up his stuff instead of talking about it.  Lots of sysops do not
put a small amount of effort into making reliable backups.

I still remember hearing about Roland DeGraff keeping his only sourcecode on
one system on one computer.   When it failed and he lost his sourcecode, he
tossed it on the floor in anger and it smashed to bits.

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