[Opensim-users] linking regions and hypergrid

[Karen Palen]

If you are using Linux, be sure you backup include the /var/* directory!

What bit me is that MySQL uses /var/MySql/... for the database by default and /var/* was NOT being backed up! Unfortunately there are good reasons fo rnot including /var/* in a backup (it is intended as transient files after all!), but you do need to be sure that you make an exception for /var/mysql/* !!!

I use Linux/Ubuntu, but the issue is the same for every OS, only the names of the guilty parties will change!

You would be amazed at how much work you hav eput into that database WHEN you have to rebuild it!


Having said that remember that sailors are divided into three groups: those who have run aground, those who ARE aground and LIARS!

Forewarned is forearmed!

Karen

--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Kevin Buckley <kevin at buckley70.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:


>  And I do an automated back-up of
> EVERYTHING! Every day,

> I do a backupPC backup every night PLUS a complete dump of
> my MySQL database
> every night! I was bitten once with database corruption and
> do NOT intend to
> lose my work again!