Backup Before Reinstall

[simoncn]

I have considered providing a backup and restore facility within MinimServer for important configuration files. There are some problems with this, as described below.

1) Restoring configuration files from backup is most likely to be needed after a catastrophic failure such a disk crash. Backing up configuration files to another location on the same disk that is being used for running MinimServer would not provide protection against this.

2) MinimServer runs on a wide variety of platforms and devices. In most cases, there will not be a backup location on another physical disk directly accessible to MinimServer where a safe backup can be stored.

3) MinimServer could not restore previously backed up configuration files from a backup location because some of these files are in use while MinimServer is running and overwriting them would cause problems. The user would need to stop MinimServer and restore these files manually, which requires detailed knowledge of where MinimServer stores its configuration files.

The alternatives for the user are:

a) include the MinimServer configuration folder in the normal backup strategy that every user should have

b) stop MinimServer and copy the complete contents of the MinimServer configuration folder and its subfolders to a safe location

c) As suggested by stefano_mbp and simbun, export all profiles and copy the contents of the "recent" folder. An alternative to exporting all profiles is to copy all files in the MinimServer configuration folder that have a .profile extension.