Are you planning to reset your device without losing your Kodi data? Taking backups is necessary. Yes, I am talking about Kodi backup. Once you take a backup file of all Kodi data, you can import it anywhere to access all your settings and plugins. Here I am going to tell you to step by step process to Kodi data backup.
Note– It's an excellent feature of Kodi that, UI is exactly the same on all the devices. This process of backup Kodi data will work on all the operating systems where Kodi installed. I'm taking the example from the Firestick device, but you can follow it on any device.
Firestick is an extremely popular media hardware device that supports almost all Smart TV. Amazon Firestick is providing a combined interface to watch movies, play videos and listen to music, that too without installing any external software. There are massive inbuilt apps and tools which provide you complete entertainment package.
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Similarly, Kodi is an immensely viral media entertainment software that provides numerous operating system users to watch free movies, videos, music and play games. Thousands of Kodi add-ons are helping Kodi users to stream 4K HD quality content from the various torrent sources. Once, we finish installing Kodi on Firestick, we can stream all those content free of cost and we don't need to pay for monthly subscriptions. Here I'll teach you, how to backup Kodi data on firestick and restore on other devices.
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How To Backup Kodi On Firestick
Launch Kodi on your firestick and follow these steps to backup Kodi data on Firestick.
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Step-1: Open Kodi Add-ons
Step-2: Select Ares Wizard
Go to Program add-ons and open Ares Wizard. If you haven't installed Ares Wizard yet, follow this guide to install Ares Wizard on Kodi. After that, launch Ares Wizard.
Step-3: Select Backup
Step-4: Click On Select Destination
Step-5: Select Backup
Step-6: Select Root filesystem
Step-7: Select sdcard
Step-8: Select backups
Step-9: Select Kodi
Step-10: Select OK
Step-11: Select REFRESH
Step-12: Select Make Backup
Step-13: Select YES
Step-14: Wait for a few seconds
Step-15: Select No
Boom… All your Kodi data has been back up, now you can restore this data to any other Firestick device using Ares Wizard. During this process, you have taken Kodi Add-Ons backup, Kodi Settings backup, Kodi Skin backups, and other configuration backups.
Table of Content
- 1 How To Backup Kodi On Firestick
- 1.1 Step-1: Open Kodi Add-ons
- 1.2 Step-2: Select Ares Wizard
- 1.3 Step-3: Select Backup
- 1.4 Step-4: Click On Select Destination
- 1.5 Step-5: Select Backup
- 1.6 Step-6: Select Root filesystem
- 1.7 Step-7: Select sdcard
- 1.8 Step-8: Select backups
- 1.9 Step-9: Select Kodi
- 1.10 Step-10: Select OK
- 1.11 Step-11: Select REFRESH
- 1.12 Step-12: Select Make Backup
- 1.13 Step-13: Select YES
- 1.14 Step-14: Wait for a few seconds
- 1.15 Step-15: Select No
Frank says
With kodi 18 you can no longer select backup location. Do u know of any work arounds?
Hung Wei-yahl says
Hey Frank,
Yes, you have to create the folder “backups” and insert it from behind.