history vanished after abnormal computer restart

[jivan]

Hi all,

I had an electricity failure & even though I've a UPS, the computer restarted. While doing the disk checking it removed some *.dat.old file from C:\Documents and Settings\jivan\Application Data\uTorrent saying it was invalid. The next thing I know is that all the index with the labels & all are gone. Although in the settings I had made so that the .torrent files of finished & unfinished ones are in different folders as well as the finished & unfinished torrents are in different folders so the .torrent files are saved as well the files themselves are o.k. What has gone is the index with the uploads I was doing. There are 3 new files which are there in C:\Documents & Settings\jivan\Application Data\utorrent. They are :-

Name Size Type Date Modified 6

resume.dat 2 KB DAT File 02/07/2006 02:47

resume.dat.old 2 KB OLD File 02/07/2006 02:47

settings.dat 3 KB DAT File 02/07/2006 02:25

dht.dat 1 KB DAT File 02/07/2006 02:25

settings.dat.old 3 KB OLD File 02/07/2006 02:23

dht.dat.old 1 KB OLD File 02/07/2006 02:23

ipfilter.dat 8,433 KB DAT File 28/06/2006 00:11

tray.ico 156 KB IrfanView ICO File 12/06/2006 07:20

main.ico 156 KB IrfanView ICO File 11/06/2006 21:51

toolbar.bmp 28 KB IrfanView BMP File 11/06/2006 21:49

rss.dat 1 KB DAT File 06/06/2006 21:22

Can something be done so that it doesn't get repeated the next time around. Thnx in advance.

[dAbReAkA]

happened to me like 3 times before.. i had to manually re-add 50-60 torrents..

the filesystem is fat32? if it is convert to ntfs..

although i lost my settings and torrents once since i'm on ntfs i had like 10-20 powercuts (so 1 out of 20 and counting is good)

when i was on fat32 it was like 3/10

[Nefarious]

you could always back-up ur .dat files on your own evry few days or somethen, but it just happens sometimes

[Firon]

Make sure you use 1.6, it's much more resistant to this than 1.5.

[dAbReAkA]

Nefarious yes u can..

i back it up every week or so..

i always have a folder uback in %appdata%/

[jivan]

I'm using 1.6 I now will make a folder called as uback & copy the settings as suggested by Nefarious as well as dAbReAkA

Is there a way to use the .torrent files & the downloaded full file to make a connection so that I can just get back to seeding. Thnx in advance.

[dAbReAkA]

that's how i do it:

1. close utorrent

2. delete the old backup folder (uback)

3. copy&paste utorrent

4. rename "Copy of uTorrent" to uback

if the settings are lost:

1. rename uTorrent to uOld

2. rename uback to uTorrent

3. add some torrents manually from uOld that were added after uback

4. delete uOld

5. make another backup folder

[jivan]

that's how i do it:

1. close utorrent

2. delete the old backup folder (uback)

3. copy&paste utorrent

4. rename "Copy of uTorrent" to uback

if the settings are lost:

1. rename uTorrent to uOld

2. rename uback to uTorrent

3. add some torrents manually from uOld that were added after uback

4. delete uOld

5. make another backup folder

I'm confused here, just simplify things ...

my utorrent is in c:\utorrent

this is where I guess the settings & everything is stored :-

C:\Documents & Settings\jivan\Application Data\utorrent

now as per u'r first post u have made another folder

called uback which has the same things as in \appdata\utorrent

like a mirror/snapshot that one can take every day or every week

just in case. Am I right so far or somewhere my premise is wrong?

I'm looking for baby steps so plz. don't assume anything. I've started

using utorrent & torrenting hardly 2 weeks back.

Edit :- From the readings of /appdata/utorrent realized few things :-

1. dht values are refreshed at the time of closing utorrent.

2. dht.old is somewhat older, in my case it's 1/2 hr. earlier. I need

to do this couple of times more to know what dht.old stores.

3. resume.dat & resume.dat.old give current readings with the diff. of 1 minute

4. settings.dat is also refreshed at the time utorrent is closed/exited.

but there is time difference between settings.dat & settings.dat.old

It would be nice to know about these files also while at the same time

using a good backup procedure. Thnx in advance.

Thnx in advance.

[dAbReAkA]

u close the program to make sure it writes the new settings.dat, resume.dat, and the other stuff

and then u backup the whole folder.. it contains everything that utorrent needs to run properly

if somehow a file from uTorrent gets corrupted (electrical faults, BSODs, freezes may do this) u can easily replace that file or the whole folder

yes u are correct

i have %appdata%/utorrent identical to %appdata%/uback

if something from utorrent gets corrupted i will replace it with the same thing from uback

[jivan]

thnx mate.