Istaria Companion/Backup
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Overview[edit]
The backup feature lets you backup your Istaria installation in two ways:
- Complete backup: Stores all files from your istaria folder. This backup contains a fully functional Istaria installation including your personal settings. This is a slow approach.
- Preference backup: Stores all of your preferences (including resource_override, log files and screenshots), but skips the Istaria files. This approach is much faster than the complete backup.
By default, the feature reminds you to make a backup every week. You can choose between the both above mentioned types and select a backup file name for where to store it. The backup file is a normal zip file.
- Keep in mind that a full backup needs 2-5 Gb of hard drive space. It is recommended to do a preference backup which will be much smaller, and of course, it is created very fast.
You can disable/enable the backup feature and set the backup frequency in the preferences dialog.
Restoring a backup[edit]
Restoring a backup is quite simple. You'll need a compression program (such as 7-zip or WinRAR) to decompress the created zip file.
- For the Complete backup, copy the contained folder to the location you'd want to run it from.
- Normally this should be something like:
C:\Program Files (x86)
- Normally this should be something like:
- For the Preference backup, copy the contained files and folders into the installation root of your Istaria installation.
- Normally this should be something like:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Istaria
- Overwrite possibly existing files.
- Normally this should be something like: