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Server seems to roll back daily
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#1

Not sure this is the best title, but here goes. I will sometimes build something, and then logoff for the day. The next day when I log on, perhaps 10-15 minutes of my past progress is gone. It's as if the server restored itself from a backup that was taken 15 minutes before I logged off the day before.

I'm not an admin on this server but I am working with the owners. So far they've found nothing. Has anyone else noticed similar behavior? The server is not crashing and being restored, but it does have a daily restart and I'm leaning toward that timeframe being when this occurs. Thoughts or similar experiences?

Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#2
Sounds like the server was restarted without saving. What is triggering the restart? If you are having a host do the restart, most of the time it is more of a kill than a graceful restart.
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#3
I've also seen this without a server rollback... two different perspectives.

I will put all my stuff away, log off.. comeback at some time  and find all my shit BACK in my inventory...
Have tried different ways of leaving the server   (disconnnect/quit/hard off) but only on remote servers never my locals.

If the server is doing a reset.. then you have to trigger a save manually.. since I have seen shutting down the server does not always save the state correctly for all cients.. I'm thinking  some race condition, maybe realted to the way my VM function.
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#4
The correct way to close or restart the server is typing quit or restart X in console, X being seconds, if you are closing the server any other way it will never trigger a save before closing.
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#5
Does NOT always work reliably........  as I said I think there is some race condition.....
My point of reference was from the client..... clearly if you just hit the power button or hard shutdown a server/ "kill" a program... you deserve what you get.
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#6
Cant really do anything here without the owners input on this. Its a weird and uncommon issue.
Posted 6 years ago
Last updated 6 years ago
#7
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Cant really do anything here without the owners input on this. Its a weird and uncommon issue.

I reported this to FP so many times it AINT funny...... even supplied them a video.
they also have a triggerable  null exeption pointer error in the  binary code on a shutdown thread they launch... STILL not fixed after 3 months of reports...... maybe that thread is coming  "0000 exec addr" randomly during saves...

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process:   exc handler [0]


oh... it's moved.. & changed type..