Halforum Minecraft Server
- Thread starter Shakey
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Just let me know what your minecraft name is and I'll add you to the whitelist.
Fun times, someone unplugged the server and forgot where it was supposed to be plugged in to. So, it's completely down right now. I'm hoping to get to it soon. I just need a call back from someone else and I can get out of here.
GasBandit
Staff member
... I'd just like to take this opportunity to emphasize the importance of automatic nightly backups.
The damage is not as small as I'd hoped but not as bad as I'd feared, I suppose. But I put in an abnormally large number of hours (for me) last weekend, and it's all been undone.
The damage is not as small as I'd hoped but not as bad as I'd feared, I suppose. But I put in an abnormally large number of hours (for me) last weekend, and it's all been undone.
My best guess is when I rebooted the server on thursday cron didn't come up or something. The server runs in ram, which cron saves to disk. It also does my backups, neither of which must have happened since thursday.
When I asked someone to reboot the router today, they did a bit more than just reboot the router, which I had mentioned earlier and rebooted the server too. Which means the server didn't save all the changes in ram since thursday.
Fuck. I'm sorry guys.
When I asked someone to reboot the router today, they did a bit more than just reboot the router, which I had mentioned earlier and rebooted the server too. Which means the server didn't save all the changes in ram since thursday.
Fuck. I'm sorry guys.
Aussie is having seizures as he reads all of this.
Same here. Glad this happened the week when I was gone for 5 days. Looks like I only lost one level of digging. Whew!
--Patrick
Of course. He should be set.
I'd like to point out that any admin should be able to issue the "save-all" command at any time to flush changes to disk.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
If what I read previously is an indication, the game is actually being run from a ramdrive, and a cron job copies it to HD each night. So save-all would only update the ramdrive.
We're good.
Save all copies what's in ram back to the hard disk, so if the server crashes as long as it's doing the save we shouldn't lose much of anything. I run it every half hour. So at most we should only lose 30 minutes of work. Then there is a full backup that goes once a day. All done by cron. Problem was I was gone and cron wasn't working and I had no idea none of it was going.