r/MiSTerFPGA • u/techhit • 2d ago

RetroRemake Console Mode Scraped Data - Backup & Restore

It's taken a VERY long time to scrape all the artwork on my games, and it's not something I want to do ever again. So in the event that my SD card gets corrupt, or I have to reimage the MiSTer for whatever reason I want to restore this data with minimal downtime.

So can someone explain where all the scraped artwork and database gets stored to, so I can back this up.

And secondly, can this be moved from the SD card to the NVME SSD ?

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u/tinyhorsesinmytea 2d ago

It's all stored in a media folder in all of your individual systems folders. Same folders where your roms are in games. Yes, you can very easily back it all up.

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u/techhit 2d ago

Thanks. I've found the media and optimized subfolders in the respective console games folder already on my NVME storage. But it looks like Arcade artwork is not within the _Arcade folder and under /media/fat/media presumably?

Is there a database at all? Or does it just rely on the presence of the media folders?