Random Access Memories

I’m finding that some people want to come here to critique my views, attitudes, etc. And yet there is no way for me to return the favor towards them. (IE. Trolls) Those people are now banned from posting here. Have a nice day.

It’s sloppy, but most importantly it works, and it backs up EVERYTHING. Terrain maps, world map image, .oar, .xml, all three .ini files, mysql database, etc.

I based this off the backup script here:

I’m running Ubuntu 11.04 server, x64 btw and this all works.

I store both scripts in /home/username/backupdir/scripts, the shell script gets run as a cron job.

#!/bin/sh
;Not that it *really* matter that we tell people, but I think it's polite, heh.
screen -S opensim -p 0 -X eval 'stuff "alert Beginning full simulator backup, things might be slow for a bit.^M"'
;Yes, I'm redundant, this is just in case I missed something
cd /home/username/backupdir
;Copy the old backups to a holding directory, I clean them out by hand every so often. This could be an offsite location.
mv /home/username/backupdir/*.* /home/username/backupdir/old
;This line runs the second command script inside the opensim process.
screen -S opensim -p 0 -X eval 'stuff "command-script /home/username/backupdir/scripts/osbackup.txt^M"'
;Now dump the mysql data to zip and date it.
mysqldump -ulogin -ppassword opensim | gzip > /home/username/backupdir/opensimbackup_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.sql.gz
;Copy and date the 3 .ini files
cp /home/username/opensim/bin/OpenSim.ini /home/username/backupdir/opensim_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.ini
cp /home/username/opensim/bin/Regions/Regions.ini /home/username/backupdir/regions_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.ini
cp /home/username/opensim/bin/config-include/StandaloneCommon.ini /home/username/backupdir/standalonecommon_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`.ini
;The next line is just a delay so the .oar output can finish, it might take your server much longer, change as needed.
sleep 30
;There is likely a much more efficient way to do the following, but this was what I could figure out
timestamp=$(date)
;these rename the opensim dumped files to add timestamps to the names. I think this makes them easier to manage later.
for f in epsilon.*
do mv "$f" "epsilon_$timestamp.${f#epsilon.}"
done
for f in techrealms.*
do mv "$f" "techrealms_$timestamp.${f#techrealms.}"
done
for f in theta.*
do mv "$f" "theta_$timestamp.${f#theta.}"
done
for f in delta.*
do mv "$f" "delta_$timestamp.${f#delta.}"
done
for f in connections.*
do mv "$f" "connections_$timestamp.${f#connections.}"
done
; Guessing this could also probably inform something in-world that could record backups. I'm not sure how tho
screen -S opensim -p 0 -X eval 'stuff "alert Backup complete, thank you.^M"'

This second script is executed inside the screen that is running opensim.

;Script Name = osbackup.txt
;executed with "command-script /home/username/backupdir/scripts/osbackup.txt" inside opensim
;
change region root
; Persist objects to the database now
backup
;
change region techrealms
; export world map image
export-map /home/username/backupdir/techrealms.jpg
; save terrain
terrain save /home/username/backupdir/techrealms.r32
; save prims to XML
save xml2 /home/username/backupdir/techrealms.xml
; save the current region to an opensim archive
save oar /home/username/backupdir/techrealms.oar
;
; repeat as needed
;
change region delta
export-map /home/username/backupdir/delta.jpg
terrain save /home/username/backupdir/delta.r32
save xml2 /home/username/backupdir/delta.xml
save oar /home/username/backupdir/delta.oar
;
change region theta
export-map /home/username/backupdir/theta.jpg
terrain save /home/username/backupdir/theta.r32
save xml2 /home/username/backupdir/theta.xml
save oar /home/username/backupdir/theta.oar
;
change region epsilon
export-map /home/username/backupdir/epsilon.jpg
terrain save /home/username/backupdir/epsilon.r32
save xml2 /home/username/backupdir/epsilon.xml
save oar /home/username/backupdir/epsilon.oar
;
change region connections
export-map /home/username/backupdir/connections.jpg
terrain save /home/username/backupdir/connections.r32
save xml2 /home/username/backupdir/connections.xml
save oar /home/username/backupdir/connections.oar

Use them however you want. If someone wants to clean them up for me that would be appreciated.

Thanks & good luck.

All the server move issues should be fixed finally.

I added a few coded messages to the front page, some easier than others.

I moved my site to a new host and off my personal home brew FreeBSD server.

Now i’m just fighting a bunch of little details to get it all working right.

Ahh, fun, fun.

If you haven’t noticed i’ve moved my personal site to http://www.lasivian.com/ and made the main site my business portal.

Lots of things are going to be broken, cut me some slack, heh.