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Exactly what MajorMUD files are essential to have backups of in case of a serious problem? Or should I just backup all of the dat files? What I'm aiming for is having a batch file run at cleanup that copies all the files I need backed up to 1 or maybe 2 other computers on the network for safe keeping.

The major ones that I can think of are

wccusers.dat

wccbanks.dat

wccgangs.dat

and those are probably actually

named with the 2 in the files like wccuser2.dat or however they do it now.

You would be best just backing up the whole game so you don't loose active monsters and ground items.

Atleast everything except maybe the wccupdat.dat and the wccmp001.dat (the rooms file) which is the bulk of it anyway.

1. make a directory "mudbackup" or something in your WG root directory

2. grap a copy of rar.exe or zip.exe

3. put this in a file called "WGSCLEAN.BAT" and place it in your WG root directory:

del mudbackup\mudbackup.rar

rar a -rr mudbackup\mudbackup.rar wcc*.*

-This will backup all of your wcc (mud) files every night at cleanup. for more protection, you should also schedule a windows backup to backup that zip/rar file to a different harddrive or removable media a few hours before or cleanup. this will give you 2 days worth of backups and still have a copy if a drive were to fail.

Quote (syntax53 @ April 26 2002,08:33)3. put this in a file called "WGSCLEAN.BAT" and place it in your WG root directory:[/quote]

Ah ha! It's wgsclean.bat, it was bbsclean.bat (for the old DOS version of WG). Anyhow I've got it set up now using xcopy to copy the entire bbs to a folder on a network drive. Cleanup went from 45 seconds to about 4 minutes but I think that's livable I kind of like the idea of having it ALL backed up just in case... ya know?