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HI,
I have setup for some friends and family several box of Android running XBMC 12.2 with customization such as Arabic font, channels, subtitles and so on. I'm trying to figure out a way to create a full/complete back of my box and put it on a site and have them download to update their boxes. Some of those people are computer illiterate. What's the best way? Should I backup the entire android box which include XBMC or just backup XBMC?
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Sam
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Hello mate, XBMC backup may be of use to you. You get it from xbmc.org add ons. You can back up to flash drive or drop box.
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Thanks I've been using that. But some of the setting are not there when I restore such as character set. Add-on short cut, fonts, will the user data save these information? Hours about user is and password for add-on such as Navi-x USTV NOW Trakt.tv
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It should save everything. Are you sure you backup the complete userdata folder?
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I agree with safisam. No, Kodi backup does NOT do a complete backup. You still have to go in and re-set some of the settings. It is not much, but for customers completely computer illiterate even that presents a problem. I too am looking for a way to do a complete image backup of the entire (in my case Android) box that they could just go to a website and easily re-image their box. A factory re-set is not helpful because that also requires re-setting all the up front Android settings, then they'd have to re-start Kodi and have the Kodi backup to restore. If anybody has an idea of how to do a complete image backup of an Android box please share it.
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"Customers" that are completely computer illiterate are going to have a hard time setting up Kodi in the first place. I have no issue with making Kodi backups easier, but backing up Android settings is not something we're ever going to support. Kodi is a specific application that runs on multiple OSes, and not a system for managing your entire PC/TV box/whatever.