I'm getting ready to try EQemu

[Regor Dragonfis]

I live in a house with 4 networked computers, could go as high as 12 if my friends bring machines over.

I'd like to host a server and run EQemu.

Is there any precautions I should take to not lose any of my EQlive data before starting to try and set up EQemu?

Will a standard backup of the directory work?

I can follow the install guide, I just didn't know what needed to be done as far as protecting your files.

I'm reading everything I can find on this. I know some of the information is changing, si the readme file being kept up to date?

[Eepster!]

All you really need to do is copy your present EQ directory over to another location and mess with things there. That way if something breaks from a patch you can still run it.

[Shawn319]

There's really no way you can harm your eqlive "data" (if you mean chars or accounts).. to keep from patching 10,000 times everytime you want to use EQEmu/eqlive, you should copy your entire EQ folder to another location (copy, not move).. I like keeping my EQEmu EverQuest folder in C:\EverQuest

As for the readme, the most updated readme can always be found at http://eqemu.sourceforge.net/shawn319/documents/readme.html

I updated it regularly but for the most part, the steps are the same.

[Shawn319]

no longer needed

[Regor Dragonfis]

Thanks for the information.

I'll set up something new entirely. I'm all that creative when it comes to this sort of thing.