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  • I prefer the LibreELEC Backup/Restore office.
    Glad it worked :)

    Sugariness, I'll do that so.
    Thanks again, it means a lot that you lot'd have the time to aid me out :cool:

  • ahhh, I am running Jarvis and then that explains why I couldn't discover it. I got it in the finish though :)

    I was able to manually copy the directories over once I could view those hidden files.
    I had to re-install my transmission app equally it wouldn't run, simply when I did all of my torrents and settings were there thanks to the file re-create.

    thanks so much for hearing me out and giving me tips, I never could accept washed it without them. ;) :D
    I will do a full backup now to make sure I continue everything and this never happens again.

    Do you recommend the LibreELEC backup or the Kodi one? I take it the LibreELEC is more than comprehensive?

  • sorry human being, i'll endeavour and be more articulate.

    Showtime of all I didn't realise there were 2 backup programs, the LibreElec one and the Kodi 1. I was trying to apply the Kodi one. that was my bad, I'm an idiot.

    I finally got the LibreElec ane working, and it downloaded my tar file, and and so rebooted the Pi. simply aught seems to take changed.
    I took pics of all of the folder structure to hopefully make it clear.

    I created a tar file with 7zip called "201702030350.tar"
    - Inside that file is a folder called 'storage'
    - - Inside 'storage' is '.enshroud' '.kodi' and '.config'
    - - - Within '.cache' is a bunch of folders I recovered that yous tin see, including bluetooth and transmission folders
    - - - Inside '.config' is some files i'm non familiar with
    - - - Within '.kodi' are some folders including a subfolder called 'addons' and 'userdata'
    - - - - Inside 'userdata' are some other folders
    - - - - Inside 'addons' are a bunch of addons folders including transmission

    Like I said, i had LibreElec backup process this tar file and information technology downloaded and reset but nothing changed.

    I take tried to utilise Samba and the shares to manually copy the folders over, but I'chiliad running into problems.
    Namely, I can't find .kodi in the File Manager. If I access /root/ I encounter /bin, /dev, /etc, /wink and then on, but no .kodi. nor in whatsoever of these subfolders. I saw what you lot said almost "Evidence hidden files and directories" in Media settings. But where is Media settings? I looked in LibreELEC plan settings, as well as in Kodi simply didn't run into it?

    I also tried to mount the EXT files in windows, just I couldn't go write admission to this drive. so I as well tried a linux usb boot stick, but I couldn't get that to work either.

    uuugh. I appreciate your thoughts considering youre more patient than me! :s

    EDIT: I figured out where the prove hidden folders/files setting was in the Kodi organisation preferences. I added the line yous suggested to my samba.config file, and I am at present copying the .kodi binder straight from my backup to the system. updates to come


  • Which files exactly? did you try with only ".cache",".config" and ".kodi" folders.

    Looks like not all files were copied when you lot created your backup in the showtime place, look inside your .kodi folder.

    Yes, I did a backup with the software to a network folder, Fill-in chosen it "201702030354"
    Within that folder was 2 folders "addons" and "userdata" and a file called "xbmcbackup"
    Inside "201702030354" I copied ".cache" ".config" and ".kodi". So now information technology looks like this

    Then I recovered that "201702030354" folder with Fill-in and nix happened. it didnt even reset :/
    Nil was changed.

    Did I mess up the folder structure? should the enshroud, config and kodi folders be in a subfolder?

  • man I am having some back luck. I installed the Backup app in Kodi. I compressed the file in zip to a .tar file
    then when I tell the Backup program the file path of "20170202030406.tar" and ask information technology to restore it says that the folder is empty, and it just says "Backup - Backup Folder Name" and shows nothing. it sounds like an error that other people have reported on but I accept yet to figure out a solution.

    edit: from my testing it looks like Backup doesn't recognise either the .tar or the folder that I created.
    edit2: I made a backup with the Backup software. and so I took all of the files I wanted to restore and put it within the folder structure and tried to restore information technology. Didn't work, gave me an error. I'one thousand out of ideas

  • I guess I'm so new to linux that I don't get where everything is stored. peradventure you tin correct me if I'm wrong.
    my SD carte du jour is 16gb. 500mb or and then of it seems to be allocated to FAT32 and information technology contains these files that I recovered using samba in windows.

    just my install likewise had manual running on it, and I wanted be sure to get a fill-in of all of those install files and torrents so I didn't accept to re-add everything. and then I got an ext reader and copied everything I saw class the 15.5gb arrangement folder which was these files. I searched through them and at that place seems to be transmission config files in there.

    is that correct? if I re-create the system files back on I can restore the system and my apps including transmission?

    cheers for being patient with me


  • Go on those folders in a divide USB stick or other pc, reinstall LibreELEC the normal way and so you lot should exist able to transfer all files or overwrite all folders back to your fresh install using Samba or File manager.

    thanks for your aid human being. possibly I'm not understanding it fully, but if I copied everything equally a backup, when I stick a USB in and try and copy information technology all back on using File Managing director in Kodi, how volition information technology overwrite arrangement files and settings when kodi is running? won't information technology encounter error or crash?


  • If you copied the whole "Storage" partition, then you lot saved everything.

    thats encouraging this is what I have. But my master question is how exercise I copy it back on to an already formatted Linux SD card?
    I can't access information technology from windows and ext2fsd won't mount the share for me to copy the data onto it


  • If You install a clean LE and supervene upon entire 'userdata' folder with the one from Your 'fill-in' You are on Your style.

    Only trust me; Use the LE congenital-in backup feature and/or Kodi backup improver. That makes Your life so much easier!
    (With the add together-on You tin schedule backups and store on separate storage...)

    cheers, yes I'll endeavor that for next time but I guess I am in deeper than that now!

    what info does the userdata contain though? just settings and paths? I have it it doesn't backup apps and things like transmission? I'll be bummed if I loose all my torrents

  • Long story short my Pi3 crashed, merely I have a full backup of it that I copied off to my windows machine (including all the hidden files. I did simply a manual copy of the whole folder structure. I didnt realise LibreELEC had a fill-in feature) however, when I load up Ext2FSD to re-create my backup dorsum onto the Pi3 SD bill of fare, ext2fsd doesn't recognize the 15.5GB linux segmentation for me to access. it says information technology is RAW. if I try and mountain it anyway, Ext2fsd crashes. It does allow me mount the 500mb FAT32 partitioning however, but I take it this isn't enough to restore everything.

    do I take to tell the software which filetype it is? Or is there another piece of software that will allow me copy my backup back onto the SD carte du jour from windows?

    thanks for your assist

  • problem seemed to exist related to the version of transmission I was running.
    I switched from the install by lsellens to the one by milhouse and that corrected my problems. https is now working.

  • Merely came here to say thanks a lot for these instructions. I had the aforementioned libreelec version equally y'all, but for some reason my libcrypto version was 35 instead of 37. so I made the adjustment and was able to go the milhouse transmission version working.

    couldn't have done it without this mail. thanks.

  • I am running Manual two.92 (14714) from lsellens.
    I installed fine, just all of my trackers that crave https will not connect.

    I have checked my port forwarding and am connectable.
    If I go to a tracker that uses https I go the fault : Could not connect to Tracker.
    If I manually change the announce to but http I am able to connect right away.

    Does anyone know why this would be? Is https connecting disabled and is in that location a manner to enable it?
    cheers.

  • later on hours of messing around I got it working :D as for your questions, its a Synology NAS. When I looked at the mount path on the Synology information technology indeed indicated that it should be /volume1/Media. I retrieve initially I was trying to mountain the subdirectory.
    not exactly sure what I did wrong, merely I'll write downwards everything I did for anyone else (or myself later downwardly the line).the mount code that finally worked was:

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    mount -t nfs 192.168.0.5:/volume1/Media /storage/SynologyNAS -o nolock;


    I created the /SynologyNAS file with the mkdir command then used chmod 777 command on the binder to brand certain it had the permissions set correctly.I besides checked into my Synology settings, made a user called LibreELEC and gave it total permissions to the share folder. I also set the hostname in NFS rules for the share folder to 192.168.0.0/24, with the usual read/write, map all users to admin, and allow connections from non-privileged ports settings checked.so I used the 'quondam method' at the end of this wiki page to manually mount the share. when information technology finally worked, I checked and updated the autostart.sh file to make sure it was re-mounting it each load.transmission now sees my mount and saves files to my network drive

  • I tried to follow the guide from the resource/wiki, but it didn't mount. then I tried to troubleshoot and I become the following error

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    LibreELEC:~ # mountain -t nfs 192.168.0.5:/volume1 /storage/volume1 -o nolock

    mount: 192.168.0.5:/volume1 failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
    mount: mounting 192.168.0.5:/volume1 on /storage/volume1 failed: Bad file descriptor

    what did I exercise wrong? :huh:

  • Hullo guys. I'm new to LibreElec (and a n00b at linux environments) and need some help mounting a network share. Basically I installed Transmission from this source and Manual was able to download and store files locally. However when I set up the download path to my NAS download folder, information technology says the path is invalid. I read that the Manual software can't view network paths, only Kodi can, is that correct?

    How do I mountain the network share so that Manual can always see and save to it?

    Is this the right resource? cause it looks scary, heh. I came across this tool to do the shares the noob way, but that won't work on an Chromebox running LibreElec volition information technology?

    thanks for the thoughts :shy: