{"id":61,"date":"2007-12-29T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T13:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bkits.at\/weblog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-01-09T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T08:22:10","slug":"enemy-territory-files-worth-to-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bkits.at\/weblog\/2007\/12\/29\/enemy-territory-files-worth-to-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Enemy Territory &#8211; files worth to backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environments are changing these days quite soon. A new Linux distribution to try out, Windows Vista, new Mac OS &#8211; whatever reason you have to reinstall Enemy Territory, there are certain files in your ET directory, that are often worth to backup.<\/p>\n<p>I had to deal with that question when preparing my migration from an 2 year old Windows XP instance to Windows Vista (yes, windows <em>can<\/em> run such a long time without major issues ;-)). From a game perspective there are following items, which are modified during several multiplayer online sessions and therefore quite unique to your installation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GUID<\/strong><br \/>\n    The GUID is generated once you started ET successfully. It identifies your installation among all the million others. Servers use the GUID along with your nickname to recognize you as a specific player. GUID is stored within the file <code>etkey<\/code> in your <code>etmain<\/code> directory. Once you have lost this file there is no way in reconstruct it and you&#8217;ll receive a new GUID.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Profile<\/strong><br \/>\n    Your personal profile stores your nickname among a lot of other stuff, that you may sat up within then game&#8217;s option menu. You may find your profile folder in <code>etmain\/profiles<\/code>. It has the same name as your nick. A lost profile may be recreated at any time, you just need to remember your settings&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maps<\/strong><br \/>\n    Maps are downloaded from servers when you attend an online session and the map is not yet installed on your client. Maps are stored in your <code>etmain<\/code> directory with the file extension <code>.pk3<\/code><\/li>\n<li><strong>Modified files<\/strong><br \/>\n    There are several reasons, why you have generated new or modified existing files, e.g. as workaround for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bkits.at\/weblog\/?p=60\">memory issue<\/a>. Of course, those files are worth for backup as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So from a technical point of view, all information can be recovered, except the GUID (I don&#8217;t know an easy way at least). That would not be an issue, as long as you do not want to keep your player&#8217;s statistic, continue with your XP saved on a server, etc. This &quot;addon&quot; functionality, which is often depending on client side modifications (mods), is in most cases relying on your GUID.<\/p>\n<p>Finally it would also make sense to include your maps in your backup, since they are often quite big in filesize, an ET installation with more than 2 GB is not exceptional. Just imagine, if you need to download all the maps every time you connect to your favorite servers again, after your reinstallation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I wish you a nice and successful reinstallation, and remember: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clipfish.de\/player.php?videoid=MjcyNzl8Ng%3D%3D\"><em>Gott sei Dank Mann, gibt&#8217;s ne Pumpgun!<\/em><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bkits.at\/weblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/fckeditor_for_wordpress\/smiles\/msn\/shades_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environments are changing these days quite soon. A new Linux distribution to try out, Windows Vista, new Mac OS &#8211; whatever reason you have to reinstall Enemy Territory, there are certain files in your ET directory, that are often worth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bkits.at\/weblog\/2007\/12\/29\/enemy-territory-files-worth-to-backup\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Enemy Territory - files worth to backup - Berni&#039;s ~page V5 Weblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bkits.at\/weblog\/2007\/12\/29\/enemy-territory-files-worth-to-backup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Enemy Territory - files worth to backup - Berni&#039;s ~page V5 Weblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Environments are changing these days quite soon. 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