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[Feature Request] Backup MC Library on a User Set Schedule

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tzr916:
Please give the end user the ability to setup the Library Auto Backups on a regular schedule, like every X hours + keep X number of backups. This would be a nice feature, especially for your customers using MC for daily Tv Recording  :)


LONG Story:
I have media spread across 6 SATA drives on my Server PC. Needed to do some maintenance on a possible bad M.2 disk, this required me to install a PCIe card with the M.2 disk attached. I performed the maintenance, pulled it back out. Some time during that work, the drive letters changed in Windows and it appears that MC did it's Auto Import thing in the background. Well it didn't take long for me to realize that a whole bunch of library tags and cover art got screwed up. After ensuring the drive letters were back to original, I did a MC Library Restore but... the most recent backup that didn't have the "bad" tags/cover art was 5 days old  ::) I got back everything except ALL Tv recording that occurred in those 5 days had absolutely no valid tags/guide info. I had to manually fill in Series, Channel, Episode, etc for about 15 recorded shows. Major pain.


SOLUTION (since MC Library backups don't happen often enough for me):
I am now backing up the MC Library every 12 hours using Windows Task Scheduler, auto deleting those older than 15 days, then using a third party program to back up the "C:\Users\Me\Documents\JRiver\Media Center 23\Library Backups" and "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 23\Cover Art" folders to a non-OS disk every 24hrs (keeping 6 most recent copies). Overkill  ::) Damn right!

Vocalpoint:
+1. This should have been in the app from the very start.

VP

Awesome Donkey:
Personally, I just do manually library backups every day and/or every time I make changes to my library.

tzr916:
If MC is being used as a TV DVR, the Library is changed every time a recording is done and every time new guide data is imported. I've setup task scheduler to back up once at 4pm - after tonight's "to be recorded" is finalized, and once at 4am - after all the shows have finished recording and the new guide data is imported.

glynor:
You can do this now. This command will initiate a standard, silent Library Backup:
mc23.exe /mcc 20011,1

That uses the regular backup rotation, though if you want to alter it, you could easily script copying the files elsewhere.

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