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2014-08-26, 13:03
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-26, 14:11 by refael65.)
Sorry for the ignorance, but , do the xbmc backup add on backing up also the current skin that i'm using (Aeon nox gotham)
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cos if i remember right the last few times that i used "backup" add on it brought every thing right back , but the skin change to back to confluence.
am i right about it?
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It does backup your skin (assuming it is in your default addons folder) but you are correct that a restore probably does not get the skin to automatically be set as your default. this is because of issues with the guisettings.xml file - which stores the information for what skin to load. Please refer to the information below which I've cut/pasted from the FAQ:
Several settings aren't being restored, this includes views, weather, etc. How do I get these back?
GUISETTINGS.xml is a configuration file used heavily by XBMC for remembering GUI specific settings. Due to the fact that XBMC reads this file on startup, and writes from memory to this file on shutdown; it is not possible to restore this file while XBMC is running. You must manually move this file from your backup archives if you wish to restore it. User SouthMark has posted the following steps for restoring in the OpenELEC system where this is more difficult:
1. Run the restore of your backup
2. SSH using putty to the IP Address of your media centre username: root Password openelec
3. Type touch /var/lock/xbmc.disabled and then press enter
4. Type kill all -9 xbmc.bin and then press enter - Your media center machine should now go blank
5. Connect to your machine using WinSCP and copy the guisettings.xml file to the userdata folder (this is the guisettings.xml file from your backup)
6. go back to your putty window and type rm /var/lock/xbmc.disabled
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I have just reinstalled windows 7 and XBMC. I had Frodo before and took a backup of everything using XBMC-Backup. Now I have installed Gotham, but I can't restore my data. The only thing I really want back is "Watched" TV-shows and movies. Any ideas?
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2014-09-02, 01:54
(This post was last modified: 2014-09-02, 02:03 by bleer2001.)
Hello, I have a midnight mx2 that I'm getting ready to upgrade and I went and downloaded the xbmc backup, but when I run it to backup for the first time it says error remote path doesn't exist. How do I fix this?
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I've recently set up XBMC Backup and set my "backups to keep" to 3. I just checked my backup folder and I have 15 backups so far, one for every day since I set up XBMC Backup. Does anyone know why it isn't deleting everything older than the last 3 backups?
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2014-09-21, 09:02
(This post was last modified: 2014-09-21, 11:58 by dancaer69.)
Hello,
I'm using XBMC backup for almost two months now and I tried today to delete some backup folders. The problem is that I cannot delete any of these folders. I get the error:
An unexpected error is keeping you from renaming the folder. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem. Error 0x80004005: Unspecified error"
Also I tried to change XBMC backup setting to keep only 5 backups, and now XBMC backup stucked to the first folder delete.
The backups aren't on the system disk but on a different disk in which I haven't problems to delete anything else except XBMC backup folders.
Any help?
EDIT:
I found the problem and seems that is XBMC or GOTV problem. The problem is with 2 folders in addon_data which have "." as last character of their names and for this windows cannot find them and delete them. This affects XBMC backup though.
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Very odd issue I am seeing.
On my OYUA it does nothing. That is, nothing gets backed up at all.
Even though, the progress bar shows that its backing up but nothing ever does.
Very strange. Tried backup up to NFS and an SMB share so far.