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[holycrap]

Hi, at first insalled my eggdrop directory does not have these files. What are they and what purposes do they serve? They just started to appear. It's in the format *.chan~bak and *.user~bak

Thanks!

[nml375]

They're backups of the user and channels files, and are automatically created by renaming the old user/channels file prior saving a new one. Their purpose is to maintain an old copy of the user/channels file whenever a new one is saved, just in case something would go wrong (process is killed while saving, disc quota exceeded, etc).
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