Hi, Pedro!
Thanx for the effort!!!
First of all, I didn't quite use this sort of thing since DBox2 days in PB images I used on it, so I am very rusty...
On top it all, I haven't really used the backup tools in PBNIGMA, that I used the most, so maybe this post of mine will be superfluous - but maybe asking these questions may help somebody...
So, a few questions, if I may, please (bear with me, I am a bit ill and have no energy to go through all this from scratch and experiment, sorry):
1) Is this suite of yours compatible with PBNIGMA, would you know (OPenPLi based)?
2) Can one make a complete image backup - if that is possible at all (in any E2 image)? Say, we add a plugin and it messes it all up and we would like to return things to the way they were before that last plugin was installed - can do or no way?
3) If one makes a backup only of general settings (my mounts [as opposed to autofs] are included, I presume?), plugins and channels list, does one return the backed-up up stuff immediately after re-installation of an image or do we need to perform any additional tasks before it is possible to return the backup (like mount external devices in images that do not have autofs mounting enabled)?
4) I suppose if I place the picons, epg, subtitles etc. on a USB memory stick, they will all "just work" after installing the backed-up stuff?
5) If I install a newer or older image, that might differ slightly in structure - are there any serious problems with that? I mean, can your plugin detect it and compensate or is it more mechanical, so to speak?
Thanx again for your efforts! If one has loads of LNBs, and so on, and if this works properly - it's a saviour!!!
<span style='font-family: comic sans ms,cursive'>"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!</span><br /> <br /><span style='font-family: comic sans ms,cursive'>Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large proportion of men, even when nature has long emancipated them from alien guidance..." I. Kant, "Political writings" (1784)</span><br /> <br /><span style='font-family: comic sans ms,cursive'><a class='bbc_url' href='<a class='bbc_url' href='
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