Touble making a backup?

jar2574 · 07-25-2009, 05:31 PM

Anyone else having trouble making backup leagues? I've tried twice with my current league, but while copying messages for the backup league, OOTP freezes and in task manager it says it is "not responding."

Thanks

bubba22plus · 07-25-2009, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by jar2574

Anyone else having trouble making backup leagues? I've tried twice with my current league, but while copying messages for the backup league, OOTP freezes and in task manager it says it is "not responding."

Thanks

It takes a long time. Just be patient it will work eventually. Just don't touch anything and it'll come

JLK · 07-25-2009, 05:35 PM

I haven't run into that, but some people just go into their 'My Documents\Out of the Park Developments' folder and make a copy of their league folder. That should get everything.

jar2574 · 07-25-2009, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bubba22plus

It takes a long time. Just be patient it will work eventually. Just don't touch anything and it'll come

Okay, will try again.

mrcoach00 · 07-25-2009, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by bubba22plus

It takes a long time. Just be patient it will work eventually. Just don't touch anything and it'll come

I'm run into this as well. I'll usually only make a backup when I have some time to kill. But, bubba22plus has it exactly right. Just be patient!

DanDiaz · 07-26-2009, 08:38 AM

Everythig everyone else said, but also, ignore task managers 'not respoinding' for OOTP, it can happen at year end, when saving/ backing up, it usually means it is just going slow.

When OOTP crashes, you'll know, there is an error message and it closes.

Sweed · 07-26-2009, 11:01 AM

This is a little gem Minnelli came up with back in 2006-07 that I still use today with OOTP X.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...tore-save.html

Read the linked post for instructions and you do have to have winrar. Not sure if you have to own it as the demo used to work but even if you have to buy it, it is well worth it even if only used for OOTP IMHO.

You may have to make small changes in the command line of the batch file (ie I had to change "\program files" to "program files (x86) since I'm on Vista 64) for it to work.

My simple batch file looks like this

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"c:\program files (x86)\winrar\rar" u -as -m1 -r -x*.rar OOTPSAVE_10_.rar
pause

I have a shortcut on desktop just double click when done playing and backup is updated. Initial backup takes a few minutes after that the utility only updates files that have changed. Takes at most a minute or two to entirely backup my league after each playing session.

To archive to dvd I copy and rename the file in this format
"XX-YEAR-OOTP_Save_10". (XX = game number)

So game 50 of 2018 gets named "50-2018-OOTP_Save_10"

I backup after every session of playing OOTP. I copy\rename the file every 5 games on a different location on my HD (never loose more than one time through the rotation). I burn backups to dvd about every 20 games or so.

May be a little anal but I manage every game and have too much time invested to loose a big chunk of games.

07-25-2009, 05:31 PM	#1
jar2574 Major Leagues Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 405	Touble making a backup? Anyone else having trouble making backup leagues? I've tried twice with my current league, but while copying messages for the backup league, OOTP freezes and in task manager it says it is "not responding." Thanks

07-26-2009, 08:38 AM	#6
DanDiaz Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 147	Also Everythig everyone else said, but also, ignore task managers 'not respoinding' for OOTP, it can happen at year end, when saving/ backing up, it usually means it is just going slow. When OOTP crashes, you'll know, there is an error message and it closes.

07-25-2009, 05:35 PM	#3
JLK Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 60	I haven't run into that, but some people just go into their 'My Documents\Out of the Park Developments' folder and make a copy of their league folder. That should get everything.