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Hello!

I'm going to do a fresh install of Zoneminder, probably from the latest livecd. However I have a current installation with fairly tweaked camera settings and zones etc. I'm not sure where ZM stores those settings.

How can I save the settings from my current box and have ZM load those on the fresh install?

The current installed version (not working well) is 1.21.4 and I will be installing 1.21.3 on from livecd. For that reason I'm guessing I won't be able to keep my "options" but I'm hoping the monitor definition settings can be moved.

Thanks.

-Casey

Most of the monitor and zone setting are in the database. You could export it so that you populate the new DB with it. There are also settings as a result of zmconfig.pl that are in a file zmconfig.txt in your source directory but I don't think these are what your looking for and are easy to recreate, so only the relivent tables fromt he database should be enough.

Regards,
Cordel

Thanks for the reply. Has the database format changed somewhat from 1.21.3 to 1.21.4 that would get me in trouble if I tried to import the database that I have now (in 1.21.4) into the fresh 1.21.3 install?

-Casey

Yes it would, there are serveral changes that would conflict.

If you look at zmalter-1.21.3.sql you should see what the changes are and be able to reverse them. Or ignore them if they are not in the tables you are interested in.

Phil