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Crash, Backup strategy - some other tips

 
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Crash, Backup strategy - some other tips
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2010-02-11, 08:16 PM
I was messing around trying to delete a reoccurring recording (while it was in progress), then I switched to task manager and windows crashed. Unfortunately something in gb-pvr got corrupted. I had a backup from several days ago but did not have gbpvr.db3 file backed up recently. Luckily I was able to recover my database after fiddling with it for several hours.

This prompted me to download Puresync a freeware backup program. Nice thing about this program is that it will do multiple copies say 1-5 just in case something gets corrupted and you don't know it. The program also has a sophisticated scheduler. I also backup my email with this. I used a old 2gb usb stick for the backup. Syncback is also a nice freeware program.

I do file conversions from ts to avi to save space and had it set in config to asap. Now I set it to go after midnight. During the conversion files get moved around a lot and cause fragmentation. So I downloaded puran defrag. You can schedule this to run at certain times (very flexible scheduler).

I'm not sure if some of my problems where related to to canceling recording while recording or just with windows 7 x64. When I've tried to cancel recordings before I had to cancel twice in PVRX2 before it would take.

In windows 7 when accessing task manager it seems to interfere with the video stream. From now on I will exit PVRX2 before looking at task manager.
Computer AMD 550 X4 unlocked @ 3.6ghz. 4 gigs ddr2 1066. 3 Samsung F3 500gb drives raid 0. HD 4870 Video. 2 ATI HD 650 PCie video capture cards. Scythe automatic temp/fan controller. 28" Hanns-G Monitor. Windows 7 x64
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2010-02-12, 01:10 AM
Quote: In windows 7 when accessing task manager it seems to interfere with the video stream

No problem here for that, I can have task manager on top of the window.
Maybe your decoder or renderer combo?
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2010-02-12, 04:56 AM
When I pop into task manager it always glitches the video stream on my hardware. 2 ati HD 650's. Usually it resumes but in this instant it crashed windows blue screened and dumped.
Computer AMD 550 X4 unlocked @ 3.6ghz. 4 gigs ddr2 1066. 3 Samsung F3 500gb drives raid 0. HD 4870 Video. 2 ATI HD 650 PCie video capture cards. Scythe automatic temp/fan controller. 28" Hanns-G Monitor. Windows 7 x64
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2010-02-12, 05:49 AM
You do have to remember that the GBPVR backend is a server and Windows will adjust priorities if you are using it as a PC as well. I never had problems with background Recordings but if PVRx2 was active on screen and before I starting using EVR as a renderer on Vista I had problems when UAC dimmed the screen.

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2010-02-13, 01:50 AM
Also could be compatibility with windows 7 x64. It's a learning process don't delete recordings while in progress. On my machine if I change something in config.exe I need to reboot or the recording process seems to get messed up.

I could not get puresync to backup automatically so I will download syncback instead.
Computer AMD 550 X4 unlocked @ 3.6ghz. 4 gigs ddr2 1066. 3 Samsung F3 500gb drives raid 0. HD 4870 Video. 2 ATI HD 650 PCie video capture cards. Scythe automatic temp/fan controller. 28" Hanns-G Monitor. Windows 7 x64
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2010-02-13, 09:44 PM
You can get it from SysInternals and you pass in a file to be defragmented. I do it in PostProcessing.bat.
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