So yesterday performed a sort on my message bases. This is something I do from time to time as new echoes/nets get added.

After sorting all the boards by network name, I noticed that there were a lot of boards missing. Like 2/3rds of them were just gone.

Fortunately, all I needed to do was restore the mbases.dat file from a recent backup, and everything was back to normal.

Has anyone seen any behavior like this?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Raspberry Pi)
* Origin: Alcoholiday / Est. 1995 / alco.bbs.io (21:1/113)

So yesterday performed a sort on my message bases. This is something I
do from time to time as new echoes/nets get added.

After sorting all the boards by network name, I noticed that there were
a lot of boards missing. Like 2/3rds of them were just gone.

Fortunately, all I needed to do was restore the mbases.dat file from a recent backup, and everything was back to normal.

Has anyone seen any behavior like this?

Backups are well worth the time!!
I haven't seen this before, the only time I screwed up my message bases was when instead of adding a new base I copied and pasted and didn't rename and then changed a few things in the new one. I think thats what happened anyway
it cleared all my msgs.
Cheers,
Steve

ÄÄÄÄÄ Â¿Ú¿ Ú¿ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
²±°Û ¿à ôڿÚÙ DatanetBBS.net:23 ÛÛ²±°
ÄÄÄÄÄ Á ÁÙÙÀÅÙÀÙ ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Linux)
* Origin: Datanet BBS | telnet://datanetbbs.net:23 (21:1/166)

On 09/08/16, Zero Reader said the following...

So yesterday performed a sort on my message bases. This is something I
do from time to time as new echoes/nets get added.
After sorting all the boards by network name, I noticed that there were
a lot of boards missing. Like 2/3rds of them were just gone.
Fortunately, all I needed to do was restore the mbases.dat file from a recent backup, and everything was back to normal.
Has anyone seen any behavior like this?

not me but good thing you back things up

|08 .|05ú|13ù|15Dr|07e|08am Ma|07st|15er|13ù|05ú|08.
|08 øù|05ú|13ùø |13øù|05ú|08ùø
|11 DoRE|03!|11ACiDiC|03!|11Demonic |08[|15dreamland|09.|15darktech|09.|15org|08]

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
* Origin: |08--[|15!|07dreamland BBS dreamland.darktech.org (21:1/163)