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     Re: Messagebase question   
     By: RickV to MRO on Tue Oct 14 2025 11:18 am   
      
    > files.   
      
    >  MR> just restore a backup or dump some files in from a new install.   
    >  MR> ---   
    > 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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