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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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