Crash During Restore

[magnatauren]

Good evening everyone.

I was trying to transfer my databases to my new computer and ran into some issues. When I try to restore the backup file it crashes. I make it to around 80% complete and it stops loading any further and just crashes when I try to do anything. It's crashing while loading tick data which I have 4gb worth of.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hello magnatauren,
Can you please clarify if you go to Documents > NinjaTrader 7 > db > can you manually transfer your database file to secondary computer. Please only transfer the NinjaTrader.sdf file (this may only read as NinjaTrader).

[magnatauren]

Thanks for the reply Ryan,

Unfortunately That doesn't transfer the tick data. My tick data is over 2 GB but my Ninjatrader.sdf is only 500MB.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hello magnatauren,
You may try transferring the Tick folder to the other computers Documents > NinjaTrader 8 > db.

[magnatauren]

I'm trying to zip it first but when i try to extract it I crash just like with NT. It happens no matter how or what program I use to do it.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hello magnatauren,
Can you please write into platformsupport[at]ninjatrader[dot]com and in the body of the email can you please include:
ATTN: RyanM
https://ninjatrader.com/support/foru...d.php?t=109591

[magnatauren]

Sorry for not getting back or emailing. I'd actually figured out a way to get the transfers to work. The massive number of files is what was causing the issue. I was able to resolve it by writing a few scripts to zip each folder individually and then zip all of those. The core to the script was this line here:

Compress:

for /d %%X in (*) do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a "%%X.7z" "%%X\" -aoa

Extract:

for /d %%X in (*) do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" e "%%X.7z" "%%X" -aoa -o"%%X\"

Zipping them all at once caused the same issue just because there was just such a massive number of files. Using a for loop like this treated each folder as a separate instance and therefore wouldn't crash due to a file overload.