Returned to find my node offline and restarted to no avail

[BrightSilence]

@thepaul

Just to clarify, orders.db is a database. It’s possible someone got confused by the error “file is not a database”, which sqlite outputs when it thinks that a file is not a database, because of some sort of corruption.

Ironically after the next update it literally won’t be a database anymore.

@littleskunk

Order DB
Some storage nodes had problems with a locked order DB. To avoid this problem we replaced the order DB with flat files. The storage node creates one file per hour per satellite and appends all incoming orders. One hour later the storage node will submit these orders to the satellite and move the file into an archive folder. By creating a new file every hour we avoid defragmentation and with that also DB locks.
Note: The storage node will check the unsent orders every 5 minutes. For 55 minutes it will notice that there is nothing to submit. That is intentional and not a bug.