Hey all, had a catastrophic failure on my Rpi last week, and since I hadn't
got around to backing up *anything* -- I was still mid-tinkering -- I've
had to start from scratch... again... LOL.

Basics are up and running, but good a time as any to make some overdue
changes:

- "Card & Claw BBS" is now "The Drunken Gamer BBS"
- thedrunkengamer.com:8888 and 8889 are the telnet/ssh addresses, but cardandclaw.com will still work
- Building on a Digital Ocean droplet just FYI (so long, Pi)

Luckily, I did have some backups of my ANSI/menu files!

Cheers,

Alpha / Robbie

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/12 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Drunken Gamer BBS (21:4/158)

On 29 Sep 2020 at 03:50a, Alpha pondered and said...

- "Card & Claw BBS" is now "The Drunken Gamer BBS"
- thedrunkengamer.com:8888 and 8889 are the telnet/ssh addresses, but cardandclaw.com will still work

Updating nodelist etc. for you now :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

Hello Alpha!

On 29 Sep 2020, Alpha said the following...

Hey all, had a catastrophic failure on my Rpi last week, and since I hadn't got around to backing up *anything* -- I was still mid-tinkering
-- I've had to start from scratch... again... LOL.

:-O

Was it some kind of storage crash?

Luckily, I did have some backups of my ANSI/menu files!

Always good!

Hoping the rebuild will go well!

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/12 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

On 29 Sep 2020, Alpha said the following...

- "Card & Claw BBS" is now "The Drunken Gamer BBS"
- thedrunkengamer.com:8888 and 8889 are the telnet/ssh addresses, but cardandclaw.com will still work

Thanks for the update, hope everything goes smoothly with the new droplet.
Not used DO yet for any personal stuff, I'm too fond of OVH lol, although I
did just recently find a company that is very very compelling to change to.

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Hello Alpha!

On 29 Sep 2020, Alpha said the following...

Hey all, had a catastrophic failure on my Rpi last week, and since I hadn't got around to backing up *anything* -- I was still mid-tinkeri -- I've had to start from scratch... again... LOL.

:-O

Was it some kind of storage crash?

SD card failure -- not sure what caused it, it was pretty new... Back to
square one :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/12 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Drunken Gamer BBS (21:4/158)

Hello Alpha!

On 29 Sep 2020, Alpha said the following...

Hey all, had a catastrophic failure on my Rpi last week, and sin

Was it some kind of storage crash?

SD card failure -- not sure what caused it, it was pretty new... Back to square one :)

Ah. :)

Adding something like commit=600 to the mount options in /etc/fstab could
help reduce wear (only writes to disk every 10 minutes, unless the writing program specifically states that it want it committed to disk immediately). However, if you lose power, you will lose the last 10 minutes of data, but
your file system will still be OK. So it's a tradeoff.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/162799

Most writes during normal operation could be log writes, but perhaps most log writes are synced to disk (depends on the application), so the actual
reduction of wear could vary...

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/27 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)

Adding something like commit=600 to the mount options in /etc/fstab could help reduce wear (only writes to disk every 10 minutes, unless the
writing program specifically states that it want it committed to disk immediately). However, if you lose power, you will lose the last 10 minutes of data, but your file system will still be OK. So it's a tradeoff.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/162799

Most writes during normal operation could be log writes, but perhaps
most log writes are synced to disk (depends on the application), so the actual reduction of wear could vary...

Thanks, Zip! I just ordered a new SD card and I'll give this a try.

Cheers,

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/12 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Drunken Gamer BBS (21:4/158)

On 01 Oct 2020 at 05:17a, Alpha pondered and said...

Thanks, Zip! I just ordered a new SD card and I'll give this a try.

Hi there. Just checking in, did you get the netmail I sent you a few days ago?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

Most writes during normal operation could be log writes, but
perhaps most log writes are synced to disk (depends on the
application), so the actual reduction of wear could vary...

Thanks, Zip! I just ordered a new SD card and I'll give this a try.

also consider this to reduce log writing
https://github.com/azlux/log2ram

and this to clone your sd-card to antother sd-card (i have one in a usb
stick to clone the original sd-card every now and then). if the original sd-card fails, i am ready to go with a cloned sd-card again :) https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone

Mindsurfer

--- MagickaBBS v0.15alpha (Linux/armv7l)
* Origin: FuNToPia telnet://funtopia.ddnss.eu:2023 (21:3/119)

On 01 Oct 2020, Mindsurfer said the following...

Thanks, Zip! I just ordered a new SD card and I'll give this a try.

You may also want to consider skipping the SD card all together. You can USB boot from the Pi 3 & Pi 4. I have a Pi 4 running off of a 250GB spinning
hard drive (a Pi Drive actually) and was surprised how much faster everything is.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md

Jay

... Someone stole my toilet and the police have nothing to go on

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hi there. Just checking in, did you get the netmail I sent you a few
days ago?

I did not! Could have been during my SD card shenanigans. Can you re-send?

Cheers,

R

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/12 (Linux/64)
* Origin: The Drunken Gamer BBS (21:4/158)

On 01 Oct 2020 at 11:10p, Alpha pondered and said...

I did not! Could have been during my SD card shenanigans. Can you
re-send?

I will fire you a test one now .. thanks :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)