Configuration Backup

[ddjksa]

(06-09-2018 12:32)timster Wrote:  

(06-09-2018 12:18)ddjksa Wrote:  

(06-09-2018 12:13)timster Wrote:  When you say backup the library, do you mean all your music? If you haven't already and your music is stored on the internal drive, do it now. Probably best to do a scheduled backup using Backup & Restore (the old Windows 7 way) to an external drive, and select your music folders. Then put the drive in a safe until next time. Then attach another drive to your PC and do File History backups.

Thanks for the quick reply Timster....the media is backed up fairly regularly. I'm talking about the data MinimServer creates after it has scanned your entire library (tags, audioquality, folderpaths, album covers etc. etc.). Perhaps "catalogue" would be a better description?

DDJ

Ahh, that stuff. database would be a better word. I presume it will all be backed up with your regular backup, but there probably isn't much use in backing it up anyway. All it takes is a restart of minim to rebuild it - assuming the configuration is as it was.
So yes, it would be useful to be able to export the configuration for backup purposes. But it is accessible for you (not so lucky here on a NAS).
/user/AppData/Roaming/MinimServer/Data/minimserver.config

Thanks for the reply. You're quite right...database is a much better description. The reason I wanted to know about backing it up is for ease of, for example, copying my minim server to another PC without having to do a full rescan of the external HDD where my media is stored.