Qbittorrent: Option to save/restore all config settings.

[tempaccount102]

Occasionally Qbittorrent crashes and on restart reverts to its very original state with all config and customization settings reset. I had to manually reconfigure it about 10 times now and it's an infuriating process. All positions of window options, everything. Also, when that happens it deletes all torrents and I have to manually add them once again and recheck their contents. A nightmare. A recurring nightmare.
A simple backup system for settings would solve all this. And also would make migrating to a different computer very simple, just install a freshly downloaded Qbittorrent client and apply your settings file.
Pretty pretty please guys!
Thank you to everyone for your great work, this is truly an amazing piece of software!

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[Chocobo1]

Before this (request) happens you can backup manually: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#Where_does_qBittorrent_save_its_settings

[DRSDavidSoft]

I would also like a simple "Import/Export Settings" menu, so I could backup my view customization list, and migrate it to a new computer.

[Skytale]

For real guys..it's just dumping a json/xml file or w/e are you using in there...changed a lot of settings just 2 days ago - now everything lost again,. Like I don't have anything else to do that fix the configs..

[cyberfunk]

Vuze already has this feature and I was thinking about switching back to Vuze because of this. I will try the manual backup and see how smooth, streamlined that process is.

[dylanh724]

Man, this still isn't a feature? O_o competitors totally have this

[cyberfunk]

Manual backup works well for me:-)

[snifflezak]

Manual backup _works_, but it's not convenient to the end user. The code can't be that complicated either.

[FarewellAngelina]

Yea, this would be a nice feature to have, windows these days with M$ pushing updates like crazy some formatting will happen, and it's a pain of configuring every program manually.

I vote for this.

[kingmustard]

I would prefer a proper option.

[MJCD]

Use the version from portableapps. Manually copy your backup over once, keep a clean copy of the entire (now customized) app for future (re)use.

Problem solvered.

[d-tork]

I run qBittorrent via docker-compose and even though I mount the /config and /data to a volume on my host drive, each time I have to rebuild it all the settings, categories, and torrents are lost. I'm not really sure how else I can handle backups, even "manually."

[mbd-shift]

also in favor of this!

I would also like a simple "Import/Export Settings" menu, so I could backup my view customization list, and migrate it to a new computer.

For real guys..it's just dumping a json/xml file or w/e are you using in there...changed a lot of settings just 2 days ago - now everything lost again,. Like I don't have anything else to do that fix the configs..

[stdedos]

Please add optionally also statistics (when https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/13386 is done, for migration purposes)

[linuxlad]

Any status updates on this feature?

[linuxlad]

Thanks, I will continue saving it manually until then +1: