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My hard drive crashed and I needed to reinstall the operating system and all applications including spiceworks. I am trying to get spiceworks back to where I was. I had spiceworks running on another backup laptop and the two applications are different. The one on the reinstalled hard drive is showing minimal information.

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Do you have a backup of Spiceworks from your old computer? You would just need the DB & Data folder from that hard drive. Then you can just do a clean install of Spiceworks but don’t start the services yet. Once you have done that, then copy the DB & the Data folder to C:\Program Files\Spiceworks & then start it up & you should be good.

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I do have a backup on another laptop. Do you know wthe file names for the files in the folder?

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I see a db folder and a data folder. can I shut down spiceworks and services on the machine and then copy those two folders from the backup?

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If you already had Spiceworks running on that laptop, I would uninstall it, rename the C:\Program Files\Spiceworks folder to C:\Program Files\SpiceworksOLD & then install the latest version. Then copy over the DB & the Data folder before you run it the first time.

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If you copy the data folder from the laptop, it will show you the same information as the laptop. You need to have a backup of Spiceworks from the old system. Do you have the auto backup setup? If the HDD is still usable, not clicking, you may be able to install it in a second system or use a USB external adapter and get teh needed data.

To ensure that I eliminate the HDD crash on my Spiceworks server that I frankenstiened together I setup a 4HDD RAID 5 drive array. I have the the auto backup setup for 06:00 with a scheduled task to copy the backup directory to my network NAS and to my desktop. I lost my first install when the HDD decided to do a very convincing imitation of a shipmunk.

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Ahhhhh.

I copied the db and data folders from my backup laptop on to the lazarus laptop and can now see all the dashboard settings and inventory that I had. I’ll continue to check it out and compare to the backup to make sure all is back.

Thanks!!!

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