Dreaded Insteon.INI wipe

[UltimateInternet]

running great for years, the usb port failed. Ok no big deal. Pop it to a new port.

rebooted, hs3 complained, yep, I know. new com port. ok.

3.0.7.38

That's my insteon plugin version.

Put the new com port # in, re-enabled the plugin, found it, great.

Wait a minute, no devices?!?! Checked the entire HS3 folder structure for some sort of backup, NOTHING FOUND. insteon.ini is now 1k.

I know better. I should have backed it up. DAMN. Google time. Found the "insteon device" in my list -- it's my current 1k config with no devices. DAMN.

Am I not going to get this file back? Do I need to rebuild? Oh please don't say that. Here's my current HS3 device count
Filtered, showing 421 of 514 Devices.

Ok. I'm at your mercy, what's next?

Help in TN

[bdraper]

Have you looked for a file called Insteon.ini.bak in the same location as Insteon.ini?

[Burrington]

Have you looked for a file called Insteon.ini.bak in the same location as Insteon.ini?

... and if you find one, just rename it to "Insteon.ini" to get things working again.

[UltimateInternet]

I did, its from Aug2019! Uggh! Also no luck undeleting anything resembling insteon.ini from 128,000 file choices 🤦♂️

[UltimateInternet]

I reread the insteon device "insteon plugin" instructions and it dawned on me that I never looked after I changed configs to the "latest before the outage" -- well I did that (it was HS_7) and went back to look at the insteon plugin device under "insteon" and voila,

IT WAS THERE. SAVED BY THE SANDLER. Thank you sir.

[Burrington]

Glad you got it resolved without a total re-build - yay! And you've made a full system backup now in case something else goes wrong, right???😁

Mark is taking some well-earned time off for the holidays.

[UltimateInternet]

Wrote up a quick script to store off to a thumb drive, here you go community:

install winrar and then set this script to run with task scheduler each night. 👍

Probably easily mod for HS4

[Burrington]

Nice - thanks for sharing!

FYI, HS4 has a nice backup facility built right in whenever you decide to upgrade.

[mnsandler]

Glad to hear you are back online.