[bsoriano]

Hello all,

Here are some considerations for using the script.xbmcbackup addon for Backup/Restore.  This addon can back up/restore your whole Kodi configuration, depending on what you select to backup.  Thus, when you now choose the Backup or Restore option in Amber settings, you might be doing a lot more than backing up/restoring Amber settings and configuration.

The Amber backup/restore options look like this now:



I recommend that you look in the addon's support thread https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=129499, and the addon Wiki https://github.com/robweber/xbmcbackup/wiki, so you can get familiar with it.  Unfortunately, I cannot run the addon from the skin in a way that would only backup or restore the Amber configuration/settings, so I am providing for you here the steps I followed to configure it in my system to do just that.

First, if you are using Leia, please install the recommended version for Leia: https://github.com/robweber/xbmcbackup/t...pton-1.5.3 .  If you are using Matrix, install the version in the Kodi Matrix repo, which is pretty up to date.

The initial configuration step you need to do for the addon is configure the folder where your backups will reside.  I am only showing the option to backup up to a folder accessible to the machine where your Kodi is running.  The addon also allows you to backup to cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox.

So, in this next screenshot you can see that I have configured a local folder for the backups:



The next thing you need to decide is which files you want to backup.  I will show you here the "Advanced" configuration I made to just backup the main Kodi configuration and the Amber settings.  The addon supports a more basic configuration as the default.




So, in the screenshot above, I chose "Advanced" as the mode, and then clicked the "Advanced Editor" option:



I added a backup set that I named "Amber Backup Set", and chose as the root folder for it, special://home/userdata.  This is the folder where your Kodi configuration resides.  The great thing about the addon is that it uses relative paths, so they work independently of whether you are running Kodi in Windows, Linux, Android, LibreELEC, etc.

Then, I added an include folder, the whole userdata folder, but without including all of the subfolders.  That looks like this:



The reason I added the root folder without the subfolders is that I did not want the backup to include all of the addons settings, since I am not backing up any addons (the addon settings are in userdata/addon_data), and I also did not want to include the Thumbnails folder, since I have a huge collection and that folder alone in my system is 29 GBytes.  So, I added all of the other sub-folders as include folders, and it looks like this:





As you can see from the above screenshot, I also added the userdata/addon_data/skin.amber folder and userdata/addon_data/script.skinshortcuts folder as include folders, since this is where the Amber settings are, and where the menu/submenu/widgets configuration is.

After that, you can just press back or choose Cancel until you are out of the addon configuration.  The addon will save your configuration.  From now on, when you do "Backup" in Amber settings it will backup your main Kodi config, plus Amber settings and menus/widgets configurations. 

I understand this might be a bit too technical or involved for some users, but I felt it was important to show you some of how I understand you can configure this powerful addon to backup/restore Amber settings.

Please try this all out and let me know how it goes for you.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart