BackupSettings for Tv Server and Media Portal (3 Viewers)

[robby3]

Killing Server Config distroys database

I've made an upgrade from RC2 to RC4 and 1.0.2. on my server (with three clients in seperate rooms). When importing the data, all worked fine and the message "successful" appeared in the process window. Shortly after that the erver config kill was executed. Restarting the server config showed an almost clear server config screen all settings or even menus are totally gone. The only way out of the dilemma is to complete uninstall and reinstall the TV server.

I played around with the settings of the backup and found a setting where the kill is not executed. Savely executing the config then stores everything. It seems that the backup expects a single seat installtion and doesn't work properly when some parts of the client are not found although it is selected that also MediaPortal client shall be resotred. But in general the kill server config should not be executed at all to avoid problems.

 

[huha]

robby3,
do you still have the log file? Can you post that or send me in a private message? I will be looking into that this week end. Did i understand correctly that you did only import settings to the MP client and not to the tvserver?
I will add a setting which will allow to disable the restart of the tv server config.

 

[huha]

Version 1.0.0.3 Released

I did release Version 1.0.0.3 which was mainly focused on the posting of robby3.

I found and fixed a bug in an initialization, which was related to a very specific situation in a multiseat configuration, but i was not able to reproduce a TV server crash.

I have attached a switch "Enable TV Config Restart", where you can now disable the tvserver restart and the Tv server configuration restart. If you disable the checkbox some settings (plugin configuration, hybrid cards , LNB settings and scanning card settings) will not get imported. So by default the tv server configuration restart is still enabled.

I have added support for backup/restore of my new EmailScheduler Plugin. As it contains sensitive information like username and email account password i have disabled all attribute settings in the log file, so none of the plugin attribute values will show up anymore in the log file. They will only be stored in your backup file TVsettings.xml.

Rsbrux, i first overread your last posting. From your log file i could trace down the issue. The backupsetting plugin was not correctly recognized when you started your tvserver import - I do not know why. I will change my errror message in the next version. In that case you need to reboot your system and repeat the import operation.

 

[huha]

Version 1.0.0.4 released

In version 1.0.0.4 I just added an improved error message to fix the issue which rsbrux reported.
In case the plugin check fails the user will get a message to reboot his system.

 

[wlgspotter]

Installation problem on MP 1.0.0.2

Hi:

I'm running MP 1.0.2 (no SVN) and am trying to install BackupSettings 1.0.4 and it seems that I have problems installing it. When I run the install, it does not detect the TV Server path (although it grabs the data path for both MP and TVS). Once I tried to manually point to the location of tvserver.exe, and attemp to install, it just fails completely.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks.

 

[clanmackenzi]

Have you unpacked the zip folder before running the install file.

 

[wlgspotter]

Have you unpacked the zip folder before running the install file.

Yes I have - I've unzipped it and run the install from within the MP10 folder.

One point though, I have my MP and TVs installed in D: drive (D:\Program Files... folder), instead on in :C drive - would that be an issue with it?

Also, I've just tried again, upon launcing the install.exe, as usual, the TVS folder was not captures (says NOT DEFINED), and if I hit the Readme button, the readme.pdf files launches in my pdf reader. However, if I manually select the TVS folder select the tvservice.exe, and then tyy the readme button again, I can an error that "Cannot locate \Readme.pdf" or something like that.

 

[huha]

wlgspotter, with the info you posted i will try to recreate your case.
The automatic folder detection will not work if you install on drive D.
However, if you select the path manually it should have worked.
I will further debug this case

 

[huha]

wlgspotter, I just did an installation on a D drive and could not reproduce your issue. Please post the detailed error message and the folders for all four paths (MediaPortal base and Config, Tv Sever Base and Config).
I also assume that you did not change anything in the extracted zip folder, e.g. move the install.exe program out of the folder. The extracted zip folder must contain install.exe, RestartSetupTV.exe, BackupSettingsMP.exe, BackupSettingsMP, BackupSettings.pdf and two folders BackupSettingsTV_SVN and BackupSettingsTV_MP10

 

[wlgspotter]

Huha -thanks for trying to debug this. I will try it again later today and will post the results for you.

Thanks again.