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Title: Library Back Up
Post by: mgreg123 on January 23, 2014, 12:03:34 pm

Hi,

Is possible to back up your library and exclude selected internal hard drives? The goal is to restore the library to another Media Server that has less hard drives without having to clean up the tags.

Any input would be appreciated.

Michael G

Title: Re: Library Back Up
Post by: Vocalpoint on January 23, 2014, 12:37:17 pm

Quote from: mgreg123 on January 23, 2014, 12:03:34 pm

Is possible to back up your library and exclude selected internal hard drives? The goal is to restore the library to another Media Server that has less hard drives without having to clean up the tags. Any input would be appreciated.

Michael G

Your "library" is a very small set of database files that MC uses to determine where to find your stuff and attributes about it.
Doing a library "backup" simply creates a single archive file with all these tiny files inside of it. There is no concept of "excluding" drives for a backup. Whatever paths are contained in the library now - will be the same paths when restored.

Smart move is to make note of hard drive letters & paths on the original machine and then ensure the same letters\paths are available on the new one when you restore. If new machine drive layout will be different - you still do the restore to the new machine and then use MC's Rename, Copy and Move toll to adjust the library paths accordingly.

Takes no time at all to repoint MC's library paths. Note: No media is included in your library backup.

Cheers,

VP

Title: Re: Library Back Up
Post by: rudyrednose on January 23, 2014, 12:50:34 pm

Hi,

There are two things you want to do : copy the media files to the new computer and adjust the MC library, assuming that the drives will not have the same letters and paths.


1 clone the library in library manager
2 load the clone library
3 select a detailed list view
4 sort by path/filename
5 remove the unwanted entries from the clone library (just from the library, not the files themselves !).
6 backup the clone library
7 copy the media files to the new computer
9 create the properly named library on the new computer
10 restore the clone library backup
11 readjust the paths through the library tool "rename move & copy" selecting "update database to point to new location"

Shouldn't be too long to do !

Cheers

edit: wrote this before I saw VP's answer...