Network connection failed - BACKUP EDITING

[Asrampd]

Hello,


My Viper Combo has a failed Network.

I can get a backup off of the box on a USB Stick - I can then edit it (lamedb) in echannelizer.

But if I use winrar to create a correctly named backup with my edited file in it. The box will not restore - It sees it as alien.

Any solution ?

[ccs]

Maybe worth thinking about a wifi dongle?

[Asrampd]

I could, but I'd prefer to be able to edit the backup - If I got a wifi dongle is there a giude to setting it up ?

[ccs]

Can't you just edit the current lamedb file offline, and then copy it back onto the amiko, or do you need to work with the backup?

[Asrampd]

Getting the file out & editing it is no problem - the problem is getting it back into the box with no networ.

[ccs]

It can be done using the usb stick, you can navigate round the filesystems using movielist/location, but there might be an easier way.

edit: ... can't see the filenames that way, unfortunately.

[Asrampd]

Wifi dongle it is then. Thanks

[ccs]

Creating a settings backup onto usb, unzipping it and editing the file you need to change (notepad++, or whatever) and zipping it back onto usb should allow you to use backup manager to restore the settings.

[BrokenUnusableAccount]

I believe the free program "7-zip" ( www.7-zip.org ) can correctly create .tar.gz files but you have to do it in two stages, first create a .tar file then compress the single .tar file with gzip compression to get a .tar.gz.

[adm]

Hello,


My Viper Combo has a failed Network.

I can get a backup off of the box on a USB Stick - I can then edit it (lamedb) in echannelizer.

But if I use winrar to create a correctly named backup with my edited file in it. The box will not restore - It sees it as alien.

Any solution ?

Which text ditor are you using? Something like Microsoft Notepad could add Microsoft specific control characters for line endings when saving an edited file which Linux may see as an alien line ending.
Windows uses CRLF (carriage return followed by line feed) whereas linux just uses LF (line feed).

Use something like Notepad++

http://sql313.com/index.php/blog/62-using-notepad-to-change-end-of-line-characters