Yeah, I’m not losing the frame on how “supported” the tool is-either in QA, or in development- believe me. Sysadmin-by-trade, but not someone with a team… or a sub-three-digit number of employees to support, or less than a half-dozen complex mission critical systems to maintain, or less extravagantly-remedial coddling to do on a day-to-day basis.
(“how I maek ecksell collum biggr? How?!?”)
Anyway: #relatable.
That said, it does sound like this wasn’t really designed with my situation in mind, and nor was the guide.
And it sounds like you’re saying the best thing for me to do might be to:
- Build a “new” server from scratch,
- Have the tool build in all the inis,
- Overwrite those inis with settings from my old server. (though I am not clear on exactly how the tool manages inis- does it write them to it’s own folder, then copy them to the “real” locations?- and some clarity on just what and where I am overwriting might be helpful)
- The “new” server becomes the old server, and this manages it, thenceforth.
That about right?
I would say as a request… well, i mean ideally a way for the tool to read back the inis of an existing server structure would be swell, but I realize that’s probably way more work than I’m making it sound there.
I can copy and paste as well as anyone. But like I said above, some clarity on just how the files are managed- which informs what I should be overwriting and where- would be exceedingly helpful in that pursuit.
I mean, the overwrite warning- in the situation i described- is kinda jarring on its own. I’m logically assuming- if I have an empty UI in the tool- it’s going to copy 0’s/nulls back to the ini settings of my existing server. This is definitely not what I want to do.
But maybe that’s not what it does? I dunno.
Still, even in the Make-a-new-server-then-overwrite-it scenario I am essentially going to be “handling” that new data with the tool at some later point, and knowing it’s not going to overwrite the thing I just overwrote is kinda crucial.
I don’t really share most people’s dispassion for reading. I’m fast at it, and good at skimming for what I’m looking for. But if it’s not there to be found in the first place, well… yeah.