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Came up from the octobre monthly build
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Fresh install of XBMC. And attempted backup. Looks like a directory has to be picked first. So put it in my DROPBOX directory. Worked fine.
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Ok explains it...
Thank you for your time.
Just did a fresh backup on 12.3!! ;-)
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2014-01-03, 21:59
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-04, 01:59 by roveer.)
My hardware is RPi using Openelec and xbmc 12.2 I believe. Using the confluence skin.
I had this installed on a old slower SD card and had done an xbmc backup (selecting all options except custom directories). Saved the backup to my NAS.
Upgraded the SD card to a newer class 10 card, reinstalled openelec (same version as on the older card, therefore same version of xbmc)
Went into XBMC installed the XBMC add-on and did a restore.
It did restore everything but none of my settings took. My screen was off (had adjusted that in xbmc settings), the RSS feed was running, the "recently added movies" was displaying. Basically doesn't look like it restored any of my settings. It did restore my sources and brought back up my movie library with artwork, but none of the settings.
Is this a known problem or should it be restoring the settings? Is there something else I should be doing? Since I can go back to my old installation just by popping in the older card. I'm going to run through the process again and double check everything and make sure the versions are the same.
There is also an option on the Openelec add-on to backup Openelec and XBMC so I might try that option and see what happens. Will report back if I have any success, but would Like to use XBMC Backup going forward since it has more features.
Thanks,
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Roveer - am very interested in your test. Many just say to copy the user XML directory from XBMC and that works just as well.
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I have just tested this on my RPi running XBMC 13 and when coping with multiple profiles the backup is missing the advancedsettings for all profiles and also one profile made after the master profile was also not copied. Not to sure why and the only way I know to do a backup is to copy the whole userdata folder off using SMB and then copy it back when needed.
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That is an interesting question. In your use case the "One-Off" style schedule wouldn't really work as you don't know if XBMC will be running or not at a given time. The catch to making this work is if once the XBMC shutdown signal is detected if we can run the backup or if XBMC will kill the thread as part of it's shutdown process. I'll have to give it a test, each script is supposed to watch for the abortRequested signal and close gracefully on it's own so running a backup may be possible.
I'll post back here with any updates to this.