Proper way to restart the server without losing items

[Yasuke 0]

Hello guys,

I checked for a solution before posting and I tried every command in the following post:

 

The problem is none of the solutions worked for me.

Can someone show me a proposer way to restart the server?

[PetePeter 38]

Just kill the game & auth process before the db one, they will send packet to db at exit

[Deliris 534]

/shutdown in game, wait a few minutes then just kill the processes (check with top if they're still doing something before killing them!).

[Dr3Ame3r 36]

Basically, the server has a heartbeat at which it processes the entries in the database, if you kill the process via SSH before the heartbeat finishes, you will lose all your items and progress.

 

Best way is to /shutdown in game then killall in ssh, WITHOUT arguments, only killall cause it will be graceful everytime.

[Defacer35 23]

First of all type /shutdown in game after this wait 5 min (cache) after 5 min close auth and channel then db. Thats it.

[DrTurk 139]

struct SendDisconnectFunc
{
	void operator()(LPDESC d)
	{
		if(d->GetCharacter())
		{
			d->GetCharacter()->SaveReal();
			DWORD pid = d->GetCharacter()->GetPlayerID();
			db_clientdesc->DBPacketHeader(HEADER_GD_FLUSH_CACHE, 0, sizeof(DWORD));
			db_clientdesc->Packet(&pid, sizeof(DWORD));

			if(d->GetCharacter()->GetGMLevel() == GM_PLAYER)
			{
				d->GetCharacter()->ChatPacket(CHAT_TYPE_COMMAND, "quit Shutdown(SendDisconnectFunc)");
			}
		}
	}
};

 

[Deliris 534]

43 minutes ago, DrTurk said:

struct SendDisconnectFunc
{
	void operator()(LPDESC d)
	{
		if(d->GetCharacter())
		{
			d->GetCharacter()->SaveReal();
			DWORD pid = d->GetCharacter()->GetPlayerID();
			db_clientdesc->DBPacketHeader(HEADER_GD_FLUSH_CACHE, 0, sizeof(DWORD));
			db_clientdesc->Packet(&pid, sizeof(DWORD));

			if(d->GetCharacter()->GetGMLevel() == GM_PLAYER)
			{
				d->GetCharacter()->ChatPacket(CHAT_TYPE_COMMAND, "quit Shutdown(SendDisconnectFunc)");
			}
		}
	}
};

 

I see what you did there, but this doesn't help at all, what if the player disconnected before the shutdown ?
As we said before, best way is to shutdown in-game, wait a few minutes and then just gracefully kill the cores.

[DrTurk 139]

Ye thats true, im also waiting 5m after shutdown because of the 5m cycle and then i shutdown the server with killall -1