Lost Z-wave devices, all events

[cjshaker]

When my Homeseer III would not boot because of the Sandisk UD3 flash drive, it somehow also lost all of my Z-wave devices, and ALL of my events. How did this happen? So far, I have not been able to restore them. I was able to import my Z-wave devices from the Z-wave controller.

Not happy,
Chris Shaker

[Rupp]

You can restore all of your devices and events from a recent backup of your config database. If you haven't been backing up then HomeSeer stores a copy of the last 10 in the config/backup directory.

[cjshaker]

Where is restoring HomeSeer documented?

I am looking for online tutorials or documents telling us how to restore our backups. So far, I am not finding such.

I tried copying only the HomeSeer.mdb file into the Config folder while HS2 was shut down, then restarting it, and my events and devices are still missing.

Thank you,
Chris Shaker

[cjshaker]

Figured it out

Got my events back. Had to go into 'Setup' and change the 'Current Configuration File' to 'HomeSeer.mdb'.

Chris Shaker

I am looking for online tutorials or documents telling us how to restore our backups. So far, I am not finding such.

I tried copying only the HomeSeer.mdb file into the Config folder while HS2 was shut down, then restarting it, and my events and devices are still missing.

Thank you,
Chris Shaker

[Krameduoh]

Oh man you just saved me. The same thing just happened to me and all my sample.mdb backups wouldn't work. they would all import, but all 60+ events were missing the actions - YIKES!. After renaming the sample.mdb to HomeSeer.mdb - Wholla! All was well in my HomeSeer world.

Thanks for posting, you just saved me hours of troubleshooting.