grundlesmash

Will most servers perform this database cleanup or is it a some do and some don't sort of deal....

I'm not sure if this has been answered before and if it has I wasn't able to find the answer anywhere, but I was wondering if anyone knows if vehicles/tents and the gear stored in them survive through servers patching to newer versions of DayZ and newer betas. The server I mainly play on has been on an older patch and I've aquired quite a bit of gear on it, and I'm wondering if It'll still be there after the server finally updates to the newest patch/beta...

This has also just happened to me for maybe the fifth time. The first few times this has happened to me I shrugged it off due to not losing my most valuable items. However, after what happened to me today I decided to check the forums and sure enough found this thread with all of you who have had the same problem. While that's comforting, it is frustrating knowing that the time spent acquiring gear can be wasted in the blink of an eye. I found and killed someone today that had the EXACT gear I had been looking for for a long period of time, which were an SVD and an extra pair of night vision goggles I wanted to give to a friend. After transferring them to my alice pack and logging on another server to meet up with friends after about 10 minutes of running I found the new gear gone and my old gear in the pack. I realize this happens after transferring gear into your backpack. Would anybody possibly know the "Safe-Zone" time to allow the server you're in to send your current character's loadout and equipment to the system that DayZ uses, or a sure method to use to not lose gear in this manner?