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Namerifrats (209 posts)
Oct-05-01, 00:55 AM (EST) "Whats the best way to back up your route?" I have already lost 2 routes and finally decided to give it another go, do I need to make a complete copy of my entire route to back it up or what? How do you guys do it? Any advice appreciated Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Whats the best way to back up y... TheEagle Oct-05-01 1 RE: Whats the best way to back up y... Namerifrats Oct-05-01 2 RE: Whats the best way to back up y... Kuchinator Oct-05-01 3 RE: Whats the best way to back up y... OkrasaGhia Oct-05-01 4 RE: Whats the best way to back up y... Namerifrats Oct-05-01 5 RE: Whats the best way to back up y... fhornuk Oct-05-01 6 RE: Whats the best way to back up y... DKlemm Oct-05-01 7 RE: Whats the best way to back up y... ronik24 Oct-05-01 8

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TheEagle (24 posts)
Oct-05-01, 02:02 AM (EST) 1. "RE: Whats the best way to back up your route?" Backup everything with the exception of the sound, shapes, terrtex and textures directory, takes about 2 mb - 3 mb when rarring or zipping it. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Namerifrats (209 posts)
Oct-05-01, 02:32 AM (EST) 2. "RE: Whats the best way to back up your route?" thanks man Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Kuchinator (197 posts)
Oct-05-01, 02:48 AM (EST) 3. "RE: Whats the best way to back up your route?" if you got the hardrive space, just copy the whole folder and everything with it to another directory. works for me
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OkrasaGhia (79 posts)
Oct-05-01, 03:44 AM (EST) 4. "RE: Whats the best way to back up your route?" I keep several complete copies on a different HD. I've noticed that often the problem with a crashed route has to do with the track and it is possible the restore it by reverting the world directory only (the files in this directory contain most (all?) objects you have placed in your route including track sections) and rebuilding the track database. That way you will not loose any changes to the landscape you've done. Of course there's no guarantee this works for you, there seems to be an unlimited variety of ways that a route may crash.

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Namerifrats (209 posts)
Oct-05-01, 03:48 AM (EST) 5. "RE: Whats the best way to back up your route?" Well, I have 110 GB of Hard drive space. I have a 30 gig and an 80 gig. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
fhornuk (68 posts)
Oct-05-01, 04:47 AM (EST) 6. "RE: Whats the best way to back up your route?" Wow, that's some space you've got! Just move a copy of the route as far away from the msts directory as possible! I learnt the hard way too!!Cheers,Bill Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
DKlemm (476 posts)
Oct-05-01, 08:43 AM (EST) 7. "RE: Whats the best way to back up your route?" Here's my two cents and I've had to use the backup twice. As already said, backup up all but the sound,shape,terrtex and textures folders. I do mine to a CD unzipped. Then I sort each of the other folders(root,tiles,world etc) on the HD by date. So after working for an hour and saving my work many times along the way I go to explorer and copy things over to my CD from the routes main folder (i.e. IllinoisCentral in my case), tiles and world folders. I don't always backup the latest activities because all I have right now is an explore one and usually I'm just changing the starting location. Then once a week I do a complete copy of the folders just to make sure nothing got out of sync.David Klemm
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ronik24 (45 posts)
Oct-05-01, 12:13 PM (EST) 8. "RE: Whats the best way to back up your route?" One thing to think of:
If overwrite an old backup, delete the old one first. Because if you just replace it in windows, old files you deleted in your new version (e.g. tiles you deleted) will not be deleted in your backup, just files with the same name replaced.Roní Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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