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[veekay]

Sounds incredibly awesome and just what I was looking for, especially with the saves to the PC - will give me a reason to use my WHS more often.

[madusmacus]

QUOTE(node21 @ May 24 2010, 09:16 PM)

Anyway, I came here to post an update...sort of a pre-announcement of version 1.6 which I've been working on for about a week or so.  I've been talking a lot about the "remote" features in the past few versions.  But this was really targeted at people who had two or more 360s and wanted to transfer content between them.  With the release of XM360 version 1.6, there is now a "XM360_server.exe" which is meant to be left running (forever?) on a PC on your network.  I have an "always on" WHS machine that is perfect for this...and I'm hoping that other people have something similar.

Many thanks for this idea - it will solve many problems even for people with 1 xbox 360 - making backup of vital game saves and stufff so much easier :¬):¬):¬)

[node21]

QUOTE(loopez @ May 25 2010, 06:36 AM)

yes. initial - means during scan all. it is counting number os updates and DLCs then ( i now the number it turns off and restarts )

it is possible to to enable some debug mode - to see ? maybe it tries to see when it fail. ( DLC crc or something.. causing error and fatal crash )
anyway - waiting for news release - maybe it will help..

There is nothing you can turn on in the version that you have, but I'll look into adding something for version 1.6.

If you can catch me on IRC we can diagnose this much more quickly.  It's probably one piece of DLC or something that is corrupt.

[loopez]

node21,

i reviewed all DLC in memory tab on my xbox. and removed all with 'corrupted' files and can now scan all without problems.

i happened after moving to 9199 and fb0.032 - feature detecting corrupted files will be great

[node21]

QUOTE(loopez @ May 25 2010, 04:52 PM)

node21,

i reviewed all DLC in memory tab on my xbox. and removed all with 'corrupted' files and can now scan all without problems.

i happened after moving to 9199 and fb0.032 - feature detecting corrupted files will be great

Oh, this is great news...I don't know how the 360 can determine that the file is "corrupt", otherwise I'd add a similar feature...glad it was easy to track down!

[loopez]

QUOTE(node21 @ May 26 2010, 01:50 AM)

Oh, this is great news...I don't know how the 360 can determine that the file is "corrupt", otherwise I'd add a similar feature...glad it was easy to track down!

not so easy - review all dlcs and xblas was painfull an booooring but i'm happy. i was afraight that my box is going to be rroded soon

[metalguitarist112]

Nice work node21, 1.6 sounds like it will be amazing!

[node21]

First post updated:


Version 1.6-- May 29th, 2010

* Xm360 now includes a server component (xm360_server) that runs on the PC.  Find it in the "server" directory of the archive.
* Be sure to define hdd1: in xm360server.cfg before using it.
* This server component when running, allows you to connect to it as if it is another 360 from within xm360.  This allows you to centralize you content on a PC on your network.
* Unlike a regular 360, the server component automatically keeps its content.bin up-to-date when things are pushed to it
* I recommend pushing content to the server from xm360 to begin with to make absoultely certain that it creates the paths correctly on the PC
* xm360 now has very robust FTP job queuing, showing you what's in the queue, and the progress of each transfer right in the content list.
* Due to the fact that you may want to run the server on a port other than 21, XM360 itself now allows you to specify the port in the "Other XBOX" ftp config section.  See XM360.cfg for details.
* Lots of minor fixes in XM360 itself
*
* If you love XM360, please donate via paypal: [email protected]

[veekay]

I know what I will be playing with tonight...

So far so good once figuring out the connection options... hopefully a GUI might be in the works =]

Since it has a way to push, is there going to be an option to pull/sync or just via FTP as normal?

Opps, forgot.  On pushing game saves and such, is there a way to push all instead of doing each manually?  I have over 500..

[veekay]

Found that a few minutes after my ability to edit the post expired.  

Is the backup/restore feature only supposed to work for the game saves and xbla right now?

[FrostyWolf]

[storagedevice]\Content\[profileID]\[gameID]\

Is the file path for game saves.  I say you ask if someone could clarify that for you but didn't really see anyone answer you.

So changing the search to just: \content\ should fix the issue.

Also,
[storagedevice]\Content\[profileID]\FFFE07D1\00010000\[profileID]

Is the file with profile information in it.  You should be able to get the profile name out of it.

That way, you could list what gavesaves go to what profile in your list, for better management.  If your someone like me, with 15+ profiles, having the name listed is a god-send.

Gavesaves are linked to Device ID and Profile ID.  So some gamesaves become no-transferable to another device/profile with out changing what device/profile they are linked to in a program like Modio for instance.

[danthaman673]

Nice, one again well done. I/we really like the direction you've taken with this and it would be nice to perhaps see someone develop a 'Dash launch background FTP plugin' that could make extended use of the content server... Just spitballing

On another note: In regards to our previous discussion about integrating music-related stuff into XM360.. I finally dug-up some code that might be usefull : There is a 'dll' you might be able to port :here http://skunkiebutt.com/x360.zip He doesn't go into too much more detail (To my knowlege) I was thinking about using said library/code to write a little app to xtract/parse .xmi/minidex files for P.C (Without throwing an exception after 3 tracks) But it might take me a while as my C# coding abilities are still in their infantile stage (for want of a better term :-)

Anyway, Just thought I'd mention it to you after our earlier discussion as I said (I know your busy and probably feeling all kinda coded-out after just bringing-out yet another version) I can't wait to try the new version's abilities, Dan

[FrostyWolf]

QUOTE(node21 @ May 30 2010, 06:47 PM)

Just a quick heads up about version 1.6.

Via IRC I've learned that USB memory unit (using the new NXE dash) actually has a second partition that is used to store title updates (Cache).

I've made the changes required to mount it, and scan it.  Now I've got to finish up the concept of backing it up to "Cache2" since it probably won't like it on that partition.  Once that is all sorted, I'll post up a 1.6b.

-node

Yup, I should have mentioned that in my random post of things that could be helpful.  The USB drive is in no way different at all from the standard 360HDD as far as what it can hold and the file structure.  Anything the HDD can do the USB does as well.

[veekay]

Might already be in there and I just missed it, but what about being able to write the reports to the server as well instead of only to a usb drive?  

[chevyowner]

good work, the pc server rocks!