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how to backup qbittorrent setting and torrents in progress
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:13 pm
by apaan
Hi, Currently I'm running ubuntu 10.04 and soon i'm gonna move to linux mint 15 since ubuntu 10.04 support has ended. Now at the moment I have a lot of torrents paused or running, and I want to backup this progress and restore the torrents list to linux mint 15. How am i gonna do this?
PS: my home dir is separated from / root dir, so I'm gonna keep my home dir intact.
Re: how to backup qbittorrent setting and torrents in progress
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:49 pm
by catwoman68
The two folders you need to backup (just in case they are overwritten), are within your home directory:
/home/username/.config/qBittorrent/
Which contains the configuration files.
/home/username/.local/share/data/qBittorrent/BT_backup/
Which contains both .torrent, and fast resume files.
Re: how to backup qbittorrent setting and torrents in progress
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:47 pm
by loki
Everything "should" be fine when updating, but just in case backup as directed.
When upgrading anyway it's a good suggestion to backup ones' home directory "just in case" which would of course include all qbittorrent files as well as any other programs settings, or files you saved within your home directory. All users home directories.
Re: how to backup qbittorrent setting and torrents in progress
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:37 am
by apaan
[quote="catwoman68"]
The two folders you need to backup (just in case they are overwritten), are within your home directory:
/home/username/.config/qBittorrent/
Which contains the configuration files.
/home/username/.local/share/data/qBittorrent/BT_backup/
Which contains both .torrent, and fast resume files.
[/quote]
Thanks exactly what i need to know.. I was able to find the .config folder but didn't know where to look the BT_backup directory.
Re: how to backup qbittorrent setting and torrents in progress
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:39 am
by apaan
[quote="loki"]
Everything "should" be fine when updating, but just in case backup as directed.
When upgrading anyway it's a good suggestion to backup ones' home directory "just in case" which would of course include all qbittorrent files as well as any other programs settings, or files you saved within your home directory. All users home directories.
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I'm keeping my home directory, anyway my home dir is in different hdd so it should stay untouched except I mess with the wrong button during new os installation.
Re: how to backup qbittorrent setting and torrents in progress
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:59 am
by Peter
Just have a Wuala account and upload your critical config files/stuff.
(They use client-side encryption, and you don't have to keep your files in sync (but you also can do that). Best backup solution I've ever seen.)