2013-06-17, 15:42
(2013-06-16, 17:47)fernandovg Wrote: Is the backup complete or copy only what changed? Can I choose the destination folder of dropbox? Thanks
Each backup is a complete backup of the files/folders selected. This is so that restores can be easily done by just picking the day you want. Within Dropbox you can't choose a folder. The app is only given permissions within the "Apps" folder of Dropbox so it can only read/write to that directory.
(2013-06-17, 05:51)Ghostdivision Wrote: I was just thinking about a backup for htpc, and im wondering if this approach is better than doing a system image file on windows?
I was thinking this might be better if i update my os from windows 7 to windows 8 in the future can I restore xbmc yetIf this is the case then this would be ideal.
One question though i dont know if rob you use rom collection browser or anything like that but i take it if i install a new os, and restore, would RCB have to be completely re-done, or would my games and images show up and I can just correct the paths to the roms? Roms currently mostly have to be installed locally on my machine/htpc, so I im just wondering to what end this addon will back things up as the location of the roms on the machine would likely change if I upgrade the OS and need to re-add them to the my pc. I guess the same principle would be for movies or music, if you had those on your htpc, and did a backup elsewhere, and installed a new os and then put the movies back on the htpc, the location might change then, would the images and artwork should up, and you could simply fix the location path to your movies? Or would you have to rescan everything?
Similarly i use advanced launcher to launch a web browser and added that entry to my skin menu, would that still be present (the web entry in my skin) and I could just correct the path to the browser to launch in chrome?
Im just trying to understand to what extent this backup will restore everything.
This addon will backup pretty much anything located within the local xbmc profile. In Win 7 this is C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\XBMC. This includes all artwork, local databases, addon data (including RCB data), addons, config files, etc. The additional two directories outside of XBMC are for any other directories that may be local to your machine that you want backed up. In your case this could be the location of your ROMS if you wanted, although I wouldn't recommend it. The main purpose of the outside directories was to capture configuration information for other programs that may be critical to running your XBMC system (running eventghost, using OpenELEC and have other config, etc).
I can't speak for RCB specifically, you may be able to edit some config files manually, but for XBMC media if the paths change you're going to have to rescrape it. If you search the forums you may be able to find an SQL query that you can use to modify the database and update the paths that way, but that's a little advanced if you want to go that route. This addon will restore things in XBMC the way they were, so any changes you've made after that you'll have to play with those. Regarding your skin entry, as long as the skin source is in the local profile folder and you are backing up the addons it will get copied as well. A good test would just be to run a backup, and then look in the backup folder and see what data you grabbed. If you've checked all the options in the settings it should be pretty much everything you need from XBMC if you rebuild the machine.
