Wiz.Bin Backup?

[brandypuff]

It occurred to me yesterday that maybe i should be backing up my wiz.bin file daily since it contains all my favorites, watched shows and other stuff.
Do you concur? Also, are there any other files i should back up regularly that would cause me grief if i lost and had to reinstall SageTV?

[GKusnick]

Wiz.bin and Sage.properties are the main ones. If you've installed any customizations, there may be additional config files associated with those. Safest thing is to back up the whole directory.

[jelwood]

I have a copy of the whole directory that I copy once a week, and then I do daily backups of the wiz.bin and properties files.

Also, Babgvant wrote a nice little utility to help create archive backups.
http://babgvant.com/blogs/andyvt/arc...ckupfiles.aspx

[Opus4]

There's a sticky in this forum for SageTV utilities & some backup solutions are listed there.

Which reminds me:

Originally Posted by jelwood

Also, Babgvant wrote a nice little utility to help create archive backups.
http://babgvant.com/blogs/andyvt/arc...ckupfiles.aspx

Was there a forum post that I missed with info about that? I could include a link to its instructions in the sticky I mentioned.

- Andy

[babgvant]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Was there a forum post that I missed with info about that? I could include a link to its instructions in the sticky I mentioned.

- Andy

I forgot to post one.

Although I did add a link in the dl section of this site.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by babgvant

I forgot to post one.

Although I did add a link in the dl section of this site.

Thanks -- I've added the download link to the sticky.

If I know about utilities & so on, I can add links to appropriate stickies... though I'm not sure how many people actually check them out.

- Andy

[babgvant]

I didn't post anything about the other utilities (MigrateMCtoSage and DTB were mentioned in some threads I think) either. Should I?

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by babgvant

I didn't post anything about the other utilities (MigrateMCtoSage and DTB were mentioned in some threads I think) either. Should I?

Well, I can't add things to stickies if I don't know about them.

If you want a discussion topic for a utility, start a new topic & I can link to that. And/or, send me a PM and I'll see about adding links when I get a chance.

- Andy

[gmijackso]

Originally Posted by Opus4

If I know about utilities & so on, I can add links to appropriate stickies... though I'm not sure how many people actually check them out.

We all do Andy, just moments after you tell us exactly where to look and how to use the spoon (I especially liked the airplane noises). Thanks for that btw, but when do I get to learn about the fork?

[KKnox]

Also, Babgvant wrote a nice little utility to help create archive backups.
http://babgvant.com/blogs/andyvt/arc...ckupfiles.aspx

I like babgvant's utility, but I can't get it to backup entire folders, only individual files. Do I need to use a wildcard or some other code to get the entire directory? I put C:\Program Files\SageTV under "Files to back up", but I get the following error in the log:

9/26/2008 11:23:08 AM : Copy C:\Program Files\SageTV
9/26/2008 11:23:08 AM : System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\SageTV' is denied.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.File.InternalCopy(String sourceFileName, String destFileName, Boolean overwrite)
at babgVant.BackupFiles.Program.Main(String[] args)

I am able to backup C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\Sage.properties though.

[babgvant]

It only backs up individual files. Wouldn't be hard to modify it to support widecards.

[KKnox]

Originally Posted by babgvant

It only backs up individual files. Wouldn't be hard to modify it to support widecards.

Thanks. I've set it to back up the bin and properties files which is sufficient.

[Djc208]

I've set up the Windows backup program to do a daily backup of the Wiz.bin and properties files daily and a weekly system backup of the whole Sage directory and support files on my server to a HDD reserved just for this purpose. This is on top of having the Sage install on a RAID drive for redundancy. Other PCs in the house also backup to this drive as well.

[stevech]

I use Second Copy to backup selected files/folders automatically on a schedule and keep the last N versions.