# Backup and restore
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 18, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093 "2008-01-18T21:10:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/1 "2008-01-18T21:10:00Z")
Is there an export config that will backup all tags to a text file, regardless of what they are? And a procedure to restore?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 8:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/2 "2008-01-19T08:37:51Z")
[This](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/5995/2) is the only way I can think of at the moment (except for exporting a specific set of fields via File \> Export and import it back via Convert \> Text file - Tag).
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/3 "2008-01-19T10:44:11Z")
> [This](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/5995/2) is the only way I can think of at the moment
Thanks, but "only works with MP3 and ID3v2" is fatal for me.
> (except for exporting a specific set of fields
Thanks, but as I said, I'm looking for a solution for all fields.
> via File \> Export and import it back via Convert \> Text file - Tag).
Doesn't that fail on e.g. multi-line Comment?
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/4 "2008-01-19T15:25:12Z")
chrisjj, additional you may try something like this ...
"Export Mp3tag Tag Dump Row.mte"
```
$filename(Mp3tag.tagdump.row.txt,ANSI)$loop(%_path%)^|_MD5AUDIO:''%_md5audio%''|_MD5:''%_md5%''|_PATH:''%_path%''|$regexp($regexp($list(,:'',''|),\r,U+000D),\n,U+000A)$$$char(13)$char(10)$loopend()
```
"Export Mp3tag Tag Dump Col.mte"
```
$filename(Mp3tag.tagdump.col.txt,ANSI)$loop(%_path%)^
_MD5AUDIO:''%_md5audio%''
_MD5:''%_md5%''
_PATH:''%_path%''
$regexp($regexp($regexp($list(,:'',''$char(13)_$char(10)),\r,U+000D),\n,U+000A),\r_\n,\r\n)$$
$loopend()
```
These export scripts do not respect binary content like covers.
With some proper created actions you may able to reload the exported data.
DD.20080119.1725.CET
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/5 "2008-01-19T16:08:51Z")
> you may able to reload the exported data
😉
Thanks Detlev.
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### Author:  [@chrizoo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrizoo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/6 "2011-07-16T13:08:44Z")
> [@chrisjj](#):
>
> > you may able to reload the exported data
> > 😉 Thanks Detlev.
out of curiosity ... which backup solution did you finally settle on, chrisjj?
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/7 "2011-07-16T13:24:15Z")
Currently I'm using my custom program employing the dBpoweramp metadata access DLL, but this DLL is too buggy so I am about to switch to WMF SDK for WMA only.
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### Author:  [@chrizoo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrizoo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/8 "2011-07-16T19:31:10Z")
many thanks for your reply
> [@chrisjj](#):
>
> ... so I am about to switch to WMF SDK for WMA only.
does that mean that you currently don't have a working solution for mp3?
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/9 "2011-07-16T21:19:34Z")
> [@chrizoo](#):
>
> does that mean that you currently don't have a working solution for mp3?
dBpoweramp may work for mp3 - I haven't tested it.
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### Author:  [@Butzenbrecher](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Butzenbrecher)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/10 "2011-07-30T02:45:03Z")
I use the following command in Total Commander to create those dummy files:
command: robocopy.exe
parameters: %p %t \*.mp3 /s /create
This also assings the original file time and date attributes to the dummy files
and it works fine with unicode filenames. Robocopy.exe is a component of Windows 7.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backup-and-restore/6093/11 "2025-11-11T13:28:17Z")