I plan on reinstalling my OS in a few days and had a couple of questions. I don't want to lose any of the porgress I've made on some projects. I'm pretty sure when I begin to reinstall I will be in the middle of some computations. For example, climateprediction is one of the projects that I run. And I am currently 300+ hours into a current project with 2200+ hours to go. When I reinstall I don't want to lose all that CPU time that has already been put into it. So, is there a way to close BOINC out and then backup progress on current projects so that when I reinstall a fresh OS I can pick up where I left off?

Is it the same OS?

I just did exactly this for a reinstall of Vista.

Back up the entire BOINC directory and put it somewhere safe.

Do what you need to do with the OS.

Then reinstall the same version of BOINC.

(option step... start BOINC, cancel the attach to project wizard, disable networking and exit out of BOINC)

Make sure BOINC is not running.

Delete the entire directory.

Copy your back-up to where BOINC was installed before (c:\program files\boinc is the default on Windows).

Restart BOINC.


I'm pretty sure that's the order of the steps I used. I restored a CPDN Beta model and a Predictor WU.

More information can be found here.

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Is it the same OS?

I just did exactly this for a reinstall of Vista.

Back up the entire BOINC directory and put it somewhere safe.

Do what you need to do with the OS.

Then reinstall the same version of BOINC.

(option step... start BOINC, cancel the attach to project wizard, disable networking and exit out of BOINC)

Make sure BOINC is not running.

Delete the entire directory.

Copy your back-up to where BOINC was installed before (c:program filesboinc is the default on Windows).

Restart BOINC.


I'm pretty sure that's the order of the steps I used. I restored a CPDN Beta model and a Predictor WU.

More information can be found here.

Yes I am reinstalling my XP install. Thanks for the info, I will look into it and check those steps out.

Hi Hammanu

Restoring the contents of your boinc folder onto a reinstalled computer is almost the same as moving it onto a new machine. My post here for a BBC-cpdn member doing that will probably help. The link leads to Astro's post with advice and also to Les's click-by-click backup and restore method which is the easiest because you see exactly what you're doing.

http://bbc.cpdn.org/forum_thread.php?id=5559&PHPSESSID=2d203188ba7eb84d0083e13d9b580a37

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