Drakhan86 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Automatic Database Restore Feature Request I think that title says it all. I had a friend I had to help a few times in the past couple of years to restore their corrupt database because of an improper shutdown. I'm not pointing any fingers. What I'm looking for is an automatic restoration feature of the last backup. Since the current database is already corrupt, it's pointless to hold onto anyways, so why not just have LaunchBox automatically make an attempt to restore the database itself from the most recent backup? I'm bringing this up to see if it can be made as user friendly as possible, maybe even be able to use a prompt window with a controller to do it? Any thoughts on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Is the whole thing corrupt? Or just certain systems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 How would you expect a feature like this to understand that a database was "corrupt"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakhan86 Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 Well instead of the database not loading because it is corrupt, be it one system or multiple systems, can't you make it so that Launchbox loads the most recent backup, then notifies you of what happened, and tells you the date of the last backup so the user knows how much was lost? I have multiple friends that have had this happen to them, be it them improperly shutting down windows without closing BigBox/Launchbox, a power outage, etc. I must say BigBox is by far my favorite interface but It's a hassle to deal with whenever the database gets corrupted. My friends are not tech savvy the way I am, so I have had to deal with this on numerous occasions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Beats Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 14 hours ago, Drakhan86 said: My friends are not tech savvy the way I am, so I have had to deal with this on numerous occasions. Restoring a backup doesn't really require ANY tech savvy. The following steps can be used in those circumstances: Delete the existing Data folder in entirety Open LaunchBox Run the restore backup process, selecting the one you want to restore to If they are having problems remembering those steps can probably create a small ReadMe.txt file for them in that folder. No app or upgrade processes are setup to remove files from that location so you wouldn't need to worry about it getting removed by us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakhan86 Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 I... do not think you understand that most people cannot even use Windows outside of microsoft word or excel, emails, and social media. WE can... but THEY cannot. I am moreover looking for a way to make it so that the user does not even have to touch their mouse, and do it all through a controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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