DBNPC's disappearing.

[DustyPorViva]

Rufus had asked me for some help with Bomy Island concerning a function suddenly not working. The system is set up with a Control-NPC command to give items to a player, and communicates with a DBNPC called Control-Items. However, when I logged on the server the DBNPC was missing, so the function wasn't doing anything. I checked the NPC folder and the file for the NPC was there. I ended up making a back-up of the file and then made a new NPC under the same name and uploaded the back-up. After I reset the NPC it seems to function... but major DBNPC's should not be disappearing like this. Any ideas? I checked NPC logs and absolutely nothing was touched.

This is a pretty major flaw whatever it is, as the server's whole item database functions off of this NPC.