Backup & Restore

Easily fix things when they go wrong!

Streamer.bot automatically performs backups any time you open the application or perform an update with the in-built updater.

You can use these backups to fully restore your data, in case you accidentally deleted something and would like to restore it.

You can even fix catastrophic scenarios preventing you from starting up Streamer.bot by simply restoring an automatic backup!

Automatic backups will always be located in the backups folder within your Streamer.bot app directory
You can quickly find your backups location by clicking the menu icon and clicking Open Log Folder. If you then navigate up one directory from here, you should see the backups folder.

Two types of backups are automatically generated:

  • Data Backup
    • Contains all configuration from your bot, such as actions, settings, etc
    • Created on every startup of Streamer.bot
    • Saved as backups/backup-[date]-[time].zip
  • Application Backup
    • Contains a full backup of the current Streamer.bot version, including application files necessary for Streamer.bot to execute
    • Created when performing an automatic update
    • Saved as `backups/app-backup-version-date-time.zip

Restoring Backups

Data

Close Streamer.bot to ensure there are no conflicts during the restoration process.

Navigate to your backups directory and select a data backup. Pay attention to the [date]-[time] parts of the filename to determine which backup you would like to restore. Typically, you want to choose the most recent backup from before the latest.

  • Open the backup .zip file and copy the contents
  • Return to your Streamer.bot directory and navigate to the data folder.
  • Paste the backup contents here
If a Replace or Skip Files dialog appears, choose 'Replace the file in the destination'.
You can also open your data directory and selected backup.zip in separate windows, and view them side-by-side. YOu can then simply drag-and-drop the contents across. This is the method used in the video tutorial below.

The next time you open Streamer.bot your backup configuration will be loaded!

Sometimes you may need to repeat this process to restore an even earlier version

App Rollback

Close Streamer.bot to ensure there are no conflicts during the restoration process.

Application backups allow you to roll back to previous versions of Streamer.bot

This can be useful if you experienced an update failure which did not automatically revert during the update process, or if you are debugging a fatal crash.

We always recommend to stay on the latest version unless absolutely necessary.

Navigate to your backups directory and select an application backup (files prefixed with app-backup).

Note the [date]-[time] parts of your selected backup as these will allow you to find your matching Data Backup.

  • Open the app backup .zip file and copy the contents
  • Return to your main Streamer.bot directory
  • Paste the backup contents here
  • Find your matching data backup .zip file, open it, and copy the contents
  • Return to your Streamer.bot directory and navigate to the data folder
  • Paste the data contents here to restore your configuration files
You can now start Streamer.bot and if everything went smoothly you will be on the selected version!

Video Tutorial