DM800 Image - Retaining settings

azzeretti

I have a few DM800's in the house and have been trying out the latest Dream Elite Images. I have one 800 still on Nablio BH.12, this is the one driving my motor. I wouldn't mind flashing the new image on there but I would obviously loose all my USALS settings.

Does anyone know of a way of maybe tarballing the settings (the files, folders specically for USUALs) so I could flash to DreamElite then restore my motor settings. I don't fancy have to set all that info backup again.

Ronan|Raven

I think dreambox control centre (DCC) used to let you backup your satellites.xml file and other stting like that.

cormacl

if you can find the software management section under the system setup area.. there should be a backup settings option. I doubt the BH images have removed these stock features for backup.

I usually do upgrades this way and then do the new install and on enigma2's first startup, I get prompted to do a restore of saved settings.

All sat services, timers and system settings (incl networking) are preserved. With my images, Gemini feature settings are not, but to be expected given that they are not stored in the standard locations. But they are just fidgety settings for EPG, info bar etc... nothing hard to restore.

I'm using diseqc only, but I'm assuming that motor settings are similarly saved if diseqc settings are saved.

This backup should create a .tar.gz file on the hard disk in /media/hdd/backup... it seems to save these as enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz and then rename it based on its actual backup date, the next time you backup.. so the latest backup is always enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz

root@dm8000:/media/hdd/backup# ls
2010-02-24-enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
2010-01-30-enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
2010-04-01-enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
2010-02-14-enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
root@dm8000:/media/hdd/backup#

In case you have no such options, then you could do a manual copy of the necessary files.. the old way!

If I list the files in one of these backups, it has the following... (its mostly just the /etc/enigma2 directory and a few networking-related files)

etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
etc/resolv.conf
etc/network/interfaces
etc/hostname
etc/enigma2/
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe00.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe01.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe02.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe03.tv
etc/enigma2/bouquets.radio
etc/enigma2/playlist.e2pls
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.news__tv_.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.favourites_hd.tv
etc/enigma2/server.pem
etc/enigma2/settings
etc/enigma2/blacklist
etc/enigma2/bouquets.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.favourites.tv
etc/enigma2/skin_user.xml
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.hd_tv__tv_.tv
etc/enigma2/lamedb
etc/enigma2/timers.xml
etc/enigma2/autotimer.xml
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.favourites.radio
etc/enigma2/cacert.pem
etc/enigma2/whitelist
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe00.radio
etc/enigma2/profile

Back in the day with my 7025, before there was a settings backup option, I used to just copy the enigma2 directory to /hdd before an upgrade...

cp -r /etc/enigma2 /hdd

Then flash the new release and when the box boots and launches the wizard etc.. just exit and go back to the main channel view.

Then telnet/ssh into the box, and do the following..

init 4
cp -r /hdd/enigma2/* /etc/enigma2
init 3

The init commands will change run-levels and stop enigma2 while you copy over settings.

azzeretti

cormacl wrote: »

if you can find the software management section under the system setup area.. there should be a backup settings option. I doubt the BH images have removed these stock features for backup.

I usually do upgrades this way and then do the new install and on enigma2's first startup, I get prompted to do a restore of saved settings.

All sat services, timers and system settings (incl networking) are preserved. With my images, Gemini feature settings are not, but to be expected given that they are not stored in the standard locations. But they are just fidgety settings for EPG, info bar etc... nothing hard to restore.

I'm using diseqc only, but I'm assuming that motor settings are similarly saved if diseqc settings are saved.

This backup should create a .tar.gz file on the hard disk in /media/hdd/backup... it seems to save these as enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz and then rename it based on its actual backup date, the next time you backup.. so the latest backup is always enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz

root@dm8000:/media/hdd/backup# ls
2010-02-24-enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
2010-01-30-enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
2010-04-01-enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
2010-02-14-enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
enigma2settingsbackup.tar.gz
root@dm8000:/media/hdd/backup#

In case you have no such options, then you could do a manual copy of the necessary files.. the old way!

If I list the files in one of these backups, it has the following... (its mostly just the /etc/enigma2 directory and a few networking-related files)

etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
etc/resolv.conf
etc/network/interfaces
etc/hostname
etc/enigma2/
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe00.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe01.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe02.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe03.tv
etc/enigma2/bouquets.radio
etc/enigma2/playlist.e2pls
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.news__tv_.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.favourites_hd.tv
etc/enigma2/server.pem
etc/enigma2/settings
etc/enigma2/blacklist
etc/enigma2/bouquets.tv
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.favourites.tv
etc/enigma2/skin_user.xml
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.hd_tv__tv_.tv
etc/enigma2/lamedb
etc/enigma2/timers.xml
etc/enigma2/autotimer.xml
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.favourites.radio
etc/enigma2/cacert.pem
etc/enigma2/whitelist
etc/enigma2/userbouquet.dbe00.radio
etc/enigma2/profile

Back in the day with my 7025, before there was a settings backup option, I used to just copy the enigma2 directory to /hdd before an upgrade...

cp -r /etc/enigma2 /hdd

Then flash the new release and when the box boots and launches the wizard etc.. just exit and go back to the main channel view.

Then telnet/ssh into the box, and do the following..

init 4
cp -r /hdd/enigma2/* /etc/enigma2
init 3

The init commands will change run-levels and stop enigma2 while you copy over settings.

Thanks for this. Do you know I never even spotted a Software Management section before on any DM. Turns out its great. Backed up the old settings and reimaged with DreamElite and restored the settings, everything working great!