As some of you may know on the 16 valve will break the game once more. Thus in order to speed up recovery I am creating backups of all custom content to redeploy to the server. Luckily I found a way to shorten the time it takes me to do this by about 20 hours per server by using winmerge! I am able to compare the packages against a fresh install and then delete everything that is stock content so we do not waste time uploading content that the server does not actually need post update. This will dramatically improve the time it takes to redeploy the servers.

I expect to have packages for all the servers ready by the weekend so that we are prepared for valve well in advance. Still plugins will likely need updates but that is another story.