Game mode: [Online private]
Type of issue: [Performance]
Server type : [PvE-Conflict, Dedicated, Windows, No Mods]
Region: [Europe]
Hello,
By running an kinda well visited server I had always one “issue” in my mind, the auto-backuping.
Currently the server saves a backup of the game.db every 5 minutes, any dedicated-server-user knows them as game_backup_1.db … … game_backup_30.db etc.
My problem now is that my game.db is around 500mb big, which results in 500mb getting written on the drive (ssd in my case) every 5 minutes. Thats around 144GB a day. (if my math was correct)
that does not only mean that every 5 minutes there is a small, sometimes not even noticeable lag on the server but as people may know an SSD has a limited lifetime, better known as a limited amount of data that can be written to it before it may fails.
Yes, I know, a 500mb game.db may should be wiped more frequently but we still have a stable perforance on the server thanks to cleanup routines for old stuff (players, characters, clans, limited event-log etc.) and probably the beasty machine the server is running on.
But still, there should be a setting allowing the administrators to adjust the time between backups so every-one can fit them to their own needs. F.e. I do a scheduled backup to a separate drive anyways, why would I need another backup every 5 minutes.
Thanks for reading through this awful long post,
but maybe there are other server-admins out there that already got the same thing going through their head at some point and maybe funcom considers to add a feature like this in the future