[robweber]

Is this still alive? This is the most frustrating issue!!!

Not sure what you mean here. This addon is very much alive, are you referring to some issue in particular?

Sorry, I was referring to this pull request, as my current hardware running Android keep losing it's settings when it loses power. I was reading in the forum of a conversation between you and the PR author and I was curious if you know what was going on with it. Sorry if I wasn't specific, I was using my phone and I tend to get lazy (horrible excuse, I know.)

I honestly don't know the status of that pull request. Looks like there hasn't been any activity there in some time. As you've probably guessed it didn't make it into Gotham. Perhaps now that it is out we'll see some action on this.

Sorry to bombard you with more questions.

I've managed to get my 'hack' to work on Frodo (at least 90% of the time anyway), but the addon isn't behaving as I was expecting.

It was my understating that while it will not change existing files which are no present in the restore back up, it will replace that already present if there is.

Is this not the case?

You're correct, that is not the way the addon works. It does not check if files exist, or any sort of timestamp information when doing a restore. The basic idea is that if a file exists in the restore archive, it is copied to the original location. If there is already a file there it is overwritten.

You can cherry pick things by category, to an extent. For example, in the addon settings if you have only Database and Config Files selected, then only those types of files will be transferred from the backup archive during a restore. Any files within these categories will be transferred however.

The reason for this behavior is that if you were to install XBMC from scratch you'd have a lot of files already existing by default. This includes database files, certain config files, etc, etc. If the addon was to ignore existing files you'd end up missing a lot of the data in your archive during a restore.