LE11 to LE12 upgrade paths

itisljar · August 7, 2024 at 10:54 PM

Greetings.

Currently I have LE 11.0.6 Legacy on J1900 ITX board, and in few days I'll be getting N100 ITX board, on which I would like to install LE12 Generic, but I would like to retain all the info on all the music, shows and movies I have - watched status, paths (media files are on NAS) and well, everything.

I don't run dockers or anything else, I have few addons, tho, but they are installed from official repos, nothing unofficial.

How should I proceed? Should I create backup on LE11 and import it on LE12? Or should I upgrade LE11 to LE12, create backup and transfer it? How to do backup?

Thank you.

tobor · August 8, 2024 at 4:04 PM

The backup part is easy. From memory, it's Programs->LibreELEC->System->Backup. It will create a file that can be copied to removable media. This should always be the first step.

Since you suggest upgrade->create backup->transfer, I assume that the new motherboard is going into a completely new installation, since transfer wouldn't be necessary once an upgrade is done. I would however suggest the first option, create the backup and install LE12 on the new system, then restore from the backup.

I believe that the watched status is automatically carried over in the latest version of Kodi, without the need for AdvancedSettings or whatever it's called (sorry, doing this from memory.) All other settings and info will be carried over.

itisljar · August 9, 2024 at 5:18 PM

OK, what I did was this: I've upgraded LE11 legacy to LE12 legacy, rebooted, waited for database to upgrade, and then made backup from within Kodi. Transfered that backup file to main PC, installed LE12 generic on new one (N100 cpu), booted up, restored backup from that backup file made previously, and all things were there.

However, the thing that didn't work for me before doesn't work even now.

LE11 to LE12 upgrade paths

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