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    From MRO@1:103/705 to Richard Vonzel on Tue Oct 14 00:23:18 2025
    Re: Messagebase question
    By: Richard Vonzel to Digital Man on Mon Oct 13 2025 11:44 am

    Re: Messagebase question
    By: Digital Man to RickV on Tue Sep 02 2025 04:05 pm

    Will Synchronet scfg re build the message bases if you delete all t If not is there a way to get hem to re build?

    Yes, if you run "scfg -a". https://wiki.synchro.net/util:scfg#command-line


    So I tried this and it did not create new message base files.

    just restore a backup or dump some files in from a new install.
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  • From RickV@1:103/705 to MRO on Tue Oct 14 11:18:39 2025
    Hello MRO!

    22 May 71 11:58, you wrote to Richard Vonzel:

    Re: Messagebase question
    By: Richard Vonzel to Digital Man on Mon Oct 13 2025 11:44 am

    Re: Messagebase question
    By: Digital Man to RickV on Tue Sep 02 2025 04:05 pm

    Will Synchronet scfg re build the message bases if you
    delete all t
    If not is there a way to get hem to re build?

    Yes, if you run "scfg -a".
    https://wiki.synchro.net/util:scfg#command-line


    So I tried this and it did not create new message base files.

    just restore a backup or dump some files in from a new install.
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    In this case no that won't work. I was have some trouble with miss configuration, so I deleted all the message areas and files, and re created the areas. The re built the files with scfg -f -a, worked great. Then just sent rescans to my feeds to re capture all the messages. BOOM! back up.

    RickV


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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to RickV on Tue Oct 14 20:40:35 2025
    Re: Messagebase question
    By: RickV to MRO on Tue Oct 14 2025 11:18 am

    files.

    just restore a backup or dump some files in from a new install.
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    In this case no that won't work. I was have some trouble
    with miss configuration, so I deleted all the message areas
    and files, and re created the areas. The re built the files
    with scfg -f -a, worked great. Then just sent rescans to my
    feeds to re capture all the messages. BOOM! back up.


    scfg creates rolling backups in that directory.
    make sure you write a script to do weekly backups and upload it to some external source so you wont end up like a stupid sysop who 'lost everything
    in a crash'.
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