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MC clients don't take backups on a schedule

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marko:

--- Quote from: Matt on July 18, 2023, 09:51:54 am ---If you're connected to a library, there's really no library to backup.  The server should be doing the backups.

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Consequently, clients never have their settings backed up.

I had to add a single, solitary file to the HTPC main library, then remember to switch to it and make a backup here and there in order to have a settings backup.
Would be good if MC could take care of this for us :)

Matt:
I could enable backup when connected to a library server.  But restoring the files without restoring the connection would be kind of broken.  Advice?

mattkhan:
You need to backup and restore settings if you are a client. If you do this internally via some snall hack like an empty library that gets ignored then it's fine, just make it take backups :)

Matt:
Enabling restore would be messy too since that would overwrite the connected library.

If it somehow understood that it was settings only it might be neat, but all the library backup logic doesn't know about that today.

So in the menu there would be "Back Up Library" and "Back Up Settings".  The scripted backup stuff would need to know which one to choose as well.

mattkhan:
I really don't see why this is hard. It knows it's a client so if it's a client only restore the settings. Clearly it has settings and those settings are stored somewhere that is client specific so it must be able to back them up and restore them without impacting the server. I suppose it's some detail of how MC is implemented that makes it hard?

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