Technitium Backup Feature is Broken

[TaxicabMessiah]

None of my DoT settings were restored when importing the backup file. None of my blocklists came back (manual nor dropdown list versions). None of my apps were restored (i did that manually via the "apps" folder which actually DID work?). I'm basically starting at zero...it's a total nightmare. The following image is the format my blocklists (1.5 million urls) were stored as...some kind of non-file that, when opened, is a huge chunk of HTML and not simply the URLs at all. These cannot be imported into the blocklist...it's looking for basic .txt files....what is going on with the backup file? Completely broken feature.

[ShreyasZare]

Thanks for the post. Do you see any error logs related to the restore action in Logs > View Logs section on the panel?

The files you see in the screenshot are cached block list data files and these are not the actual block list config. The block list config is stored in a file called blocklist.config. Make sure that you restore this file and it should work.

[TaxicabMessiah]

The log is too voluminous to parse but this is, what i think, the start of what's relevant. Also the blocklist.config is not my blocklist...it's just the chosen lists from the default drop-down menu that are available. I have my own blocklist I added manually as text in the Blocked > Import section...this data seems to be nowhere now. I used to manually export this data but at some point I assumed it was integrated into the entire .zip folder you use to backup from (not sure if that is supposed to be true or not now). I tried importing the blocklist.config anyway in the standard manner and it threw an error there, too.

[ShreyasZare]

Also the blocklist.config is not my blocklist...it's just the chosen lists from the default drop-down menu that are available. I have my own blocklist I added manually as text in the Blocked > Import section...this data seems to be nowhere now.

In that case, this data is stored in the blocked.config file.

I used to manually export this data but at some point I assumed it was integrated into the entire .zip folder you use to backup from (not sure if that is supposed to be true or not now).

If you selected the Blocked Zones File (blocked.config) option while exporting the backup zip file then it will be included in the backup.

I tried importing the blocklist.config anyway in the standard manner and it threw an error there, too.

You cannot import config files that way. The file to restore must be a zip file and it should include these config files in it in the same directory structure as that of the config folder.

The other option you can do to restore it is to stop the DNS server, replace the config files manually in the config folder of the DNS server and then start the DNS server back to load the new files.

[TaxicabMessiah]

Thank GOD....the actual backup file itself (blocked.config) WAS full of my 1.4 million url list. Manually replacing these files does work. I believe I tried updating with 15.0.0 and 15.0.1 and had the same update error (ignore the attempt to try the raw config file; that was a hail mary attempt) using the standard .zip exported file.

[ShreyasZare]

I just did a test to verify this and the restore function is working well and restoring the zip file with the list of blocked zone entries. So, the issue you described is not reproducible.

Note that you have to click on the "[refresh]" link in the Blocked section to refresh its data. By default, clicking on the tab does not refresh the contents to preserve the view. I guess, that may have caused the confusion.

[TaxicabMessiah]

Oh, yes, I tried refresh. Rebooted the PC and all the basics. I did fully delete the folders this time for a fully fresh install, which I never do, since it was a big upgrade to .NET 10. So that was one substantial change this time for my experience and the one time the import feature didn't work.