backup viewing data before update

[MrCreosote]

apologies if this has been answered, i have used the forum search and google and couldn't find an obvious answer to this.
i've just put a new 2TB hard drive in the pc that i stream to xbmc4xbox from, and i'm intending to fill it up with a lot of complete series of tv shows and cartoons, so i'd like to preserve the data that keeps track of which episodes have already been watched, so as after i update xbmc4xbox there is still a tick next to any videos that have been watched already.
how do i do this, and is it possible to do it with file mode, or i do i have to enable library mode and create a library database?

[Dan Dar3]

Try backing up (FTP transfer) Q:\UserData\Database\*, set one episode as watched, transfer back (restart maybe) and then check watched again.
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/wiki/The_UserData_Folder

Or you could try exporting data as XML, might export not only the video information but also the watched flag - check the exported XMLs on your PC.
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/wiki/Import ... rt_Library

[MrCreosote]

cheers mate, i will give both of those a go and let you know what the results were.