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  • Nuked from Orbit

    From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to All on Wed Dec 21 14:41:37 2022
    So I nuked my system to get rid of the crypto miner that was squatting and I could not get rid of. He's gone, I'm happy.

    Restoring my system... where's my data folder?!

    So yeah, board looking a little barren now. Most everything is coming back to life, but gonna have to figure out how to get my old board data back.

    Worse case I think I still have my WinXP copy of SBBS somewhere. Could restore those older files, and re-poll all the board echo's.

    ...right after I make a proper backup script.

    -A.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Android8675 on Wed Dec 21 20:37:35 2022
    Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Android8675 to All on Wed Dec 21 2022 02:41 pm

    So I nuked my system to get rid of the crypto miner that was squatting and I could not get rid of. He's gone, I'm happy.

    Restoring my system... where's my data folder?!

    So yeah, board looking a little barren now. Most everything is coming back to life, but gonna have to figure out how to get my old board data back.

    Worse case I think I still have my WinXP copy of SBBS somewhere. Could restore those older files, and re-poll all the board echo's.


    you didnt zip it up?
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Android8675 on Wed Dec 21 21:04:00 2022
    Android8675 wrote to All <=-

    So I nuked my system to get rid of the crypto miner that was
    squatting and I could not get rid of. He's gone, I'm happy.

    Restoring my system... where's my data folder?!

    So yeah, board looking a little barren now. Most everything is
    coming back to life, but gonna have to figure out how to get my
    old board data back.

    You didn't do a backup of your /sbbs directory before nuking the system?

    Worse case I think I still have my WinXP copy of SBBS somewhere.
    Could restore those older files, and re-poll all the board
    echo's.

    ...right after I make a proper backup script.

    Yeah that would be a good idea, although you don't actually need a
    script. Just copy the directory somewhere.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Android8675 on Thu Dec 22 09:48:58 2022
    Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Android8675 to All on Wed Dec 21 2022 02:41 pm

    So I nuked my system to get rid of the crypto miner that was squatting and I could not get rid of. He's gone, I'm happy.

    Restoring my system... where's my data folder?!

    Which data folder are you referring to? Linux user data folder? That's normally in /home/<your-username>

    In Windows, it's normally in C:\Users\<your-username>

    Nightfox

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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to MRO on Thu Dec 22 11:03:53 2022
    Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: MRO to Android8675 on Wed Dec 21 2022 08:37 pm

    Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Android8675 to All on Wed Dec 21 2022 02:41 pm

    So I nuked my system to get rid of the crypto miner that was squatting and I could not get rid of. He's
    gone, I'm happy.

    Restoring my system... where's my data folder?!

    So yeah, board looking a little barren now. Most everything is coming back to life, but gonna have to figure
    out how to get my old board data back.

    Worse case I think I still have my WinXP copy of SBBS somewhere. Could restore those older files, and
    re-poll all the board echo's.


    you didnt zip it up?

    I know right? simple tar czf data command and for some reason I either forgot or something didn't sync correctly. It was a horrible oversight. I REALLY am not losing much other than some history, most of the message echos can be polled again from vert or my NC, so I'm NOT that upset. Losing my userbase was a blow, so I'm hoping I can find my WinXP data folder. It'll be a few years old, but at least I can restore SOME of it.

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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to Gamgee on Thu Dec 22 11:07:27 2022
    Re: Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Gamgee to Android8675 on Wed Dec 21 2022 09:04 pm

    Yeah that would be a good idea, although you don't actually need a
    script. Just copy the directory somewhere.

    Why risk it? I made a cron job that backs up daily, weekly, monthly and annually to my cloud drive and local NAS. Was easy, and now it runs automatically. I can set it up to ping my cell phone or post to my Discord when it fails to complete.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Android8675 on Thu Dec 22 15:20:32 2022
    Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Android8675 to MRO on Thu Dec 22 2022 11:03 am

    you didnt zip it up?

    I know right? simple tar czf data command and for some reason I either forgot or something didn't sync correctly. It was a horrible oversight. I REALLY am not losing much other than some history, most of the message echos can be polled again from vert or my NC, so I'm NOT that upset. Losing my userbase was a blow, so I'm hoping I can find my WinXP data folder. It'll be a few years old, but at least I can restore SOME of it.

    you should be backing it up off site every week. it's not that hard
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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Android8675 on Thu Dec 22 21:15:00 2022
    Android8675 wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Gamgee to Android8675 on Wed Dec 21 2022 09:04 pm

    Yeah that would be a good idea, although you don't actually need a
    script. Just copy the directory somewhere.

    Why risk it? I made a cron job that backs up daily, weekly,
    monthly and annually to my cloud drive and local NAS. Was easy,
    and now it runs automatically. I can set it up to ping my cell
    phone or post to my Discord when it fails to complete.

    Well, yeah, OK... But you didn't think to do that before you "nuked
    your system"? Doesn't make much sense to me.



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  • From Android8675@VERT/REALITY to Gamgee on Tue Jan 10 15:05:50 2023
    Re: Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Gamgee to Android8675 on Thu Dec 22 2022 09:15 pm

    Well, yeah, OK... But you didn't think to do that before you "nuked
    your system"? Doesn't make much sense to me.

    Me either, but here we are. So I'm not the best system admin, at least my crypto issues are gone (so far).
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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to Nightfox on Thu Feb 2 07:37:29 2023
    Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Nightfox to Android8675 on Thu Dec 22 2022 09:48 am

    Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Android8675 to All on Wed Dec 21 2022 02:41 pm

    So I nuked my system to get rid of the crypto miner that was squatting and I could not get rid of. He's gone, I'm happy.
    Restoring my system... where's my data folder?!

    Which data folder are you referring to? Linux user data folder? That's normally in /home/<your-username>
    In Windows, it's normally in C:\Users\<your-username>

    Was being facitious, I forgot to back it up like a tool, so yeah, /sbbs/data, gone. Not a BIG deal, but my userbase is gone which is sad. I'm tempted to pull apart my old system which is dead, spin up the drives and see if I can find my old data files. They are on a Virtualbox HD image somewhere. I'm pretty sure I could easily extract the files with a little patience. In the meantime my board is on an odd port now shodanscore.com:8086 (telnet). I think ssh is still blocked, but I'm debating opening it back up. Webv4 is working at https://bbs.shodanscore.com.

    I need to time travel so I can find some time to work on it without sacrificing my other time.

    -A.

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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to Gamgee on Thu Feb 2 07:41:20 2023
    Re: Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Gamgee to Android8675 on Thu Dec 22 2022 09:15 pm

    Well, yeah, OK... But you didn't think to do that before you "nuked
    your system"? Doesn't make much sense to me.

    We live in a world where Trump was President for 4 years, and this doesn't make much sense?

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  • From Gamgee@VERT to Android8675 on Thu Feb 2 12:24:00 2023
    Android8675 wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Gamgee to Android8675 on Thu Dec 22 2022 09:15 pm

    Well, yeah, OK... But you didn't think to do that before you "nuked
    your system"? Doesn't make much sense to me.

    We live in a world where Trump was President for 4 years, and
    this doesn't make much sense?

    That is correct. It doesn't make *any* sense, actually.

    Very weak attempt to inject politics into something that shouldn't be political, too. Additional points deducted for replying to a 6-week-old
    post. Overall, a massive failure in multiple ways.



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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to Gamgee on Thu Feb 9 07:06:23 2023
    Re: Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Gamgee to Android8675 on Thu Feb 02 2023 12:24 pm

    Very weak attempt to inject politics into something that shouldn't be political, too. Additional points
    deducted for replying to a 6-week-old
    post. Overall, a massive failure in multiple ways.

    Oh my gosh golly, I am such the failure. Whatever shall I do. My offspring will be shamed for generations to come.

    Was just a joke dude, relax a little.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Android8675 on Thu Feb 9 18:08:00 2023
    Android8675 wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Nuked from Orbit
    By: Gamgee to Android8675 on Thu Feb 02 2023 12:24 pm

    Very weak attempt to inject politics into something that
    shouldn't be political, too. Additional points deducted
    for replying to a 6-week-old post. Overall, a massive
    failure in multiple ways.

    Oh my gosh golly, I am such the failure.

    Concur.

    Whatever shall I do.

    I have a suggestion, but will refrain from expressing it.

    My offspring will be shamed for generations to come.

    I don't doubt that.

    Was just a joke dude, relax a little.

    It wasn't a joke, and I am relaxed.


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