Before i start, what a great piece of software, so handy!
Right, i’ve been using the dude for about three weeks. I had a decent configuration built up and today i lost all of it.
It appears that i had left a remote desktop connection logged in for the server that hosts the dude, now i have disconnected that i noticed my client couldn’t login.
Now i have logged back into the server and started the dude but its a blank canvas again. Peering in the dude’s directory i can see the dude-db file and it appears to have all my configuration in. But i just can’t get it on the GUI.
Using Terminal Server manager (I think) can you see if your old session is still ‘active’?
If so, kill that session, stop and restart the Dude service and give it a shot. If you can, try to use the same credentials that worked with the Dude before when logging in.
Backup the dude(with a real backup program)!!! Also use a script and task scheduler that automatically copies the dude folder every day/week. Also save an export once in a while! There was a corrupt database a few weeks back, the guy tried very hard but I imagine he lost everything .
An old post from keith…
Kind of a work around but if you are running in windows environment create a scheduled task that runs weekly that executes a batch file that zips the file then either emails it or ftps it somewhere. something like
@echo off
set HH=%TIME:~0,2%
if “%time:~0,1%”==" " set HH=0%HH:~1,1%
set YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS=%DATE:~10,4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%_%HH%%TIME:~3,2%%TIME:~6,2%
alzip -a “C:\program files\dude”, “c:\backups\dude%YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS%.zip”
You could then extend the script to copy it to another server or ftp it to a server
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