Subject: MOO DB Restoration?

From: "R.Mehta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1993 09:13:31 -0700

Due to various server reasons, our mud crashed and, due to lack of space on
our server, the backup databases had been truncated :-(

So, in a massive brain-wave, we decided to edit the database code and try to
restore some of the lost verbs from a corrupted db by block copying the code
and verbs into our only backup which survived (from about a week ago).

Unfortunately, when we started up the server, it displayed several notices
which we could not understand.

Has anyone any ideas or must we re-code our multiply-attacking monsters and
skills and magic routines and other long code again??

ps. If we don't restore it by tomorrow, a very nasty programmer is going to
get *very* angry when she realises her only 4 verbs have been erased!!! :-(

*ANY* help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!

Slayer and Snider (wizards)

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From: Roger Crew <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1993 13:49:58 -0700

If it's only 4 verbs, you're probably much better off simply extracting
the names and code for those verbs from the db listing, restoring the
old db as-is, and then using @verb and @program to enter the extra verbs.

Attempting to edit a saved-db directly, while it might not be as bad as, 
say, patching binaries, is still likely to be a frustrating process...
--
Roger Crew
Internet:   [email-masked]
LambdaMOO:  Rog