I am wanting to restore my computer to its original state but I do not want to lose any work units that are currently running. Is there a way to save the work units I currently have and then put them back when I have the restoration completed?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

1) Close BOINC
2) copy the entire BOINC directory to a CD (or some other media that can store the files)
3) Install new system
4) Copy directory back
5) Reinstall BOINC on top of the old directory.

It is important that you do not run BOINC between step 1 and 5 because this could potentially trash your work.

Step 5 is actually optional but will produce the shortcuts in the start menu etc that some people use.

Same procedure in linux except you don't need to do step 5 at all.

> 1) Close BOINC
> 2) copy the entire BOINC directory to a CD (or some other media that can store
> the files)
> 3) Install new system
> 4) Copy directory back
> 5) Reinstall BOINC on top of the old directory.
>
> It is important that you do not run BOINC between step 1 and 5 because this
> could potentially trash your work.
>
> Step 5 is actually optional but will produce the shortcuts in the start menu
> etc that some people use.
>
> Same procedure in linux except you don't need to do step 5 at all.
>
But beware!
CD-Copy programs tend to put a 'write protection' tag to the files, better use CDRW or USBstick or another partition.

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Gruesse vom Saenger

For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki

Or simply remove write Protection of all Files after copying them back ;)

(but I wouldn't waste a CD-R anyway, a rewritable Media or a safe location on another Partition/Harddisk is always the most economic way)

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> Or simply remove write Protection of all Files after copying them back ;)
>
> (but I wouldn't waste a CD-R anyway, a rewritable Media or a safe location on
> another Partition/Harddisk is always the most economic way)

... or simply make a zip file, write that to CD-R, and then unzip it.

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