jadflat Posted May 29, 2013 Posted May 29, 2013 http://www.bvckup.com This is a great back up program for your hyperpin, visual pinball and future pinball files It's free and will back any files you wish on the fly or scheduled depending on your requirements Sent from my Nexus 4 using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
Shadowsclassic Posted May 30, 2013 Posted May 30, 2013 Thanks, pretty nice looking backup util for a freebie. Here is an interesting backup question. What do you need to backup to get the pinmame settings like "yes I own the ROM" and DMD size and location? After my recent HD crash I was able to get most everything back from a backup, although some files had changed since the month between backups. However I had to go into each and every table and do the ROM confirmation and re-size and position every DMD on tables with DMD displays. Do you have to backup the registry entries ? If so, anyone know an easy way to just backup those entries and not the entire registry?
Ton Posted May 30, 2013 Posted May 30, 2013 You know what registry keys to backup? Yesterday I found this SMARegisTry Backup Installation 1.0.0.4 to backup individual registry keys.
Content Provider arngrim Posted May 30, 2013 Content Provider Posted May 30, 2013 Everything under HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareFreewareVisual PinMame
Shadowsclassic Posted May 30, 2013 Posted May 30, 2013 Cool, thanks guys, with that information and the Registry backup Ton posted it should be a snap to repair next time. Wish I had asked this before my C:\ totally died on me and I lost the registry.
Content Provider Zarquon Posted May 30, 2013 Content Provider Posted May 30, 2013 You can also backup specific keys with out a tool (other than regedit) as well: REGEDIT /E C:\Full\Backup\Path\vpinmame.reg "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Freeware\Visual PinMame"
Content Provider Itchigo Posted May 30, 2013 Content Provider Posted May 30, 2013 Do you mean copy and paste that file to back it up? This is something I am not well versed in, so it may be a stupid question.
Content Provider Zarquon Posted May 30, 2013 Content Provider Posted May 30, 2013 This is something you can execute on a command line. Also here is a batch file I use to backup my system. This is still a work in progress but you might find this useful. This is customized for my system and would have to be altered for your setup but you can get an idea of what I am backing up. If anyone has some suggestions on what else I need to backup let me know. HyperPinBackup.zip
Content Provider arngrim Posted May 30, 2013 Content Provider Posted May 30, 2013 great zarquon, and is it possible to schedule your batch?
Content Provider Zarquon Posted May 30, 2013 Content Provider Posted May 30, 2013 I just run it manually after adding new tables but I suppose it could be scheduled with Task Scheduler built into Windows.
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