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1. Will all of my views be saved? Some add-ons can only be customized by going through them screen by screen and setting the view types you want manually, This alone took an insane amount of time, as some of these add-ons have thousands of screens.

2. If I create a backup to an external drive, then wipe my hard drive so I can do a clean install, can I then just import the backup from the external?

The only other thing that worries me is all the metadata and fanart I have edited over the past few years, but I assume since I exported my entire library and created .nfo files for every video that all the info should just show up automatically when I scan my video sources (they are in the same folders as the videos).

1. Your views are most likely saved in the guisettings.xml file (someone correct if I'm wrong here). This file is saved if you are selecting the "Config Files" option in the addon. Unfortunately the guisettings.xml file is the most problematic of the XBMC config files in that it is read/written to a lot during normal operation. This usually doesn't affect backup but restores to that file sometimes fail if XBMC has it open. In this case you just manually move it from your backup location or keep trying until the lock is gone.

2. Yes, you should be able to just install the XBMC Backup addon from the repo, configure it, and do a restore from your external to get you settings back. A restart of XBMC may be necessary to refresh sources, and other preferences since they might be read at startup.

3. Rescanning your sources should not be necessary if you are saving your DB and fanart/thumbnails with the addon. All of this should repopulate itself. That being said doing the library export as insurance doesn't hurt either!

Thanks for the quick fix – sometimes Git is too clever for it's own good!

I've downloaded the latest zip but XBMC is now telling me that the "Add-on does not have the correct structure" and won't install it...

EDIT: It installs correctly after downloading the source files from github as a zip, but the zip from your link above (and in the github 'Downloads' section) is broken.

Thanks for letting me know. What is really funny is the GitHub download link is just a repost of the "download as zip" option from GitHub. All I did was rename it. I'll try it again! Glad it's working for you.