[jestermgee]

Thanks for the info, that's does help to a degree.

I just find it quite puzzling that no one has an easy method for backup/restore of their setup.

If I may take a brief moment to show how I currently backup my HTPC system:

My HTPC system is quite a puzzle spanning over 3 computers in the house and using a large number of programs, scripts and batch files to bend windows and software to do what I want. Because I tend to tinker quite a bit and make incremental changes I have an incremental backup system that is seperate from my main OS backups. I only make OS backups when everything seems stable.

All the programs I use are backed up using a batch script that copies and compresses the files to my server taking a "snapshot" of the configurations, media libraries and setup of my HTPC apps. This is done every week or so and the files can then easily be restored or copied to my dev machine so I can tinker and test.

out of all the programs that I backup this way, I can't do it with MP because it uses the SQL database. When I restore my settings, MP is left out in the cold and every time I try a MP update I have to re-configure it all over again which is getting very tedious.

Any 1.2.3 suggestions on how to backup all of MP will be very helpful at this stage.

THX