On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, mordist wrote: >Uhm, why not just save a backup of the list when something is going to be >removed...kind of like the way the gdb logs are saved in the >autorun...maybe make it by date instead of number tho. Like, if the >script is run once a day you could do "12-27-00.backup"...and if you >notice anything going wrong you can just mv the backup into the >working(current) version. This way you can get everything you want 1) >auto-magic deleting of outdated links and 2) security for your poor >paranoid soul :) It's all stuffed into an SQL table of MySQL. While I could just make a copy of that file, I'm lazy, and would rather it just not happen in the first place. Besides, I don't have access to restart the MySQL server in the event I would need that replaced. I could have used: mysqldump -u username -p circlehosts -t > backup but then I'd have to deal with importing the stuff gone and errors and whatnot. Nice reminder though, I could have. I'd rather completely prevent the problem than be really fast at fixing it, however. -- George Greer | If it's about the CircleMUD mailing list, greerga@circlemud.org | mail owner-circle@post.queensu.ca instead. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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