TS3UpdateScript Best Practices

Here, you will find the latest best practices for the usage of the TS3UpdateScript. This file is always referred to the attached TS3UpdateScript.

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Optionally delete old logs, if they are not needed by your monitoring server for example.
Informing hundreds or even thousands of clients can take up to multiple minutes. In the meanwhile, some clients could already have left the server(s).
Disabling the ex- and import of the temporary passwords save a lot of time.

Following a table with all optional and related parameters for updating a TeamSpeak 3 server:

Recommendation	Parameter	Description
Optional	--delete-old-logs	Deletes old TeamSpeak 3 server logs while update process
No	--inform-online-clients	Sends the configured poke message to each online client on each virtual server, that the server will be updated (if you enter 'Yes, update!')
Optional	--keep-backups	Keep created backups by the script
Optional	--waiting-time-in-minutes [MINUTES]	Optionally the script can wait X minutes before it starts the update process
Yes	--disable-temporary-password-backup	Disable feature to backup temporary passwords
Optional	--set-release	Do not use the official latest release. Use instead the set release from the given file configs/config.all
No	--beta-release	With this parameter you are able to detect and update your TeamSpeak server to the latest beta release
Yes	--path	Specify the absolute path to the TS3 server instance, which should be updated instead of searching for all

Optional means, that it is up to you, if you want to use it or not. It does not really impact the performance of the script.
Yes mans, that you should use this parameter, because it helps to increase the performance.
No means, that you should NOT use this parameter, because it reduces the performance.