Backups & Archiving

[Axeman3813]

I am curious as too the location on the hard drive, where, the archive file of my route is kept?

Where in all those files is my Kuid kept? I have seen some within backup, but the date shown does not corrispond with the day I have done any work on my route?

I have downloaded much content, and my system loads slow, so would like to re-install; maybe on a dedicated harddrive for TS12. And keep extra content seperate. Is this possible?

How then do I find, an item kuid that I would need to import or move from my saves to the new install?

Have tried search but it wont locate a kuid number for some reason.

Windows7 64 bit, AMD quad core at 3 ghz, 4 db ram. TS12 runs good as long as your settings dont push the video too much!

Ohh Not many topics on Backup or Archiving.

ps: My Archive when uploaded is then available to general public for download?

 

[schweitzerdude]

Re backups

Any backup on your primary hard drive is not really a backup - if your hard drive dies your backups die as well.

I use an external USB hard drive and periodically backup both my route and newest session both as *.cdpa files (archives) and .cdp files.

I also backup downloads from the DLS as .cdp files and save them to my external hard drive. In Content Manager, just select the downloaded asset and right click and save as .cdp onto an external hard drive. If you do a new install on the same computer or a new one, there is a menu item in Content Manager called File/Import .cdp's and some or all your DLS downloads can be imported. The default file names are assetname.cdp, not KUID.cdp.

Others may have different strategies but this is what I do.

 

[leeferr]

Any backup on your primary hard drive is not really a backup - if your hard drive dies your backups die as well.

I use an external USB hard drive and periodically backup both my route and newest session both as *.cdpa files (archives) and .cdp files.

I also backup downloads from the DLS as .cdp files and save them to my eternal hard drive.

Others may have different strategies but this is what I do.

I also back up to an external USB hard drive and it's worked fairly well for me although I've had external hard drives fail on me. It's seldom though that the internal hard drive and external hard drive will fail at the same time.

Mike

 

[Axeman3813]

CDP files

Yes, I was looking at the .cdp files as saving to "an external drive" from my main hard drive, wether internal or not. I have learned over the years to have backup's, so after playing with my new TS12 for awhile its time to do some saving, or all that work goes Poffff!

"" The default file names are assetname.cdp, not KUID.cdp. ""

Thats what I wondered about when saving; either kuid or assetname.

TY for the replys,

 

[mjolnir]

I also back up to an external USB hard drive and it's worked fairly well for me although I've had external hard drives fail on me. It's seldom though that the internal hard drive and external hard drive will fail at the same time.

Mike

Here's my back-up procedure.

Everything I download for Trainz, from whatever source, and everything I create, routes, buildings, &c., gets saved into a folder on a 4 GB USB thumb drive / memory stick, AND into a folder on the back up internal hard drive (I have both a "C" and a "D" drive in my system). The internal structures in these backup folders match, and are constructed so that each file goes into a specific place. DLS downloads go into one folder; downloaded third party content goes into a folder dedicated to the TPP from which it was downloaded; and there's a folder for my items I've created, or modified.

I use Kdiff3 to compare the contents of the back up hard drive folder with the contents of the thumb drive [I'm sure that there are other products which could do the job just as well; I like kdiff3 because I can compare the contents of three folders at the same time.] to make sure that the contents match. Whenever I find a discrepancy, I resolve it.

It hasn't happened yet, but when the thumb drive gets full, I'll save the contents to a DVD disk, erase the thumb drive, and start the process again. I'll rename the folder on the Hard drive to match the name of the optical disk, and start a new backup folder. And if I'm feeling particularly insecure at the time, I may decide to burn a second back-up DVD, and mail it to my brother, who lives 750 miles away.

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