# Watched Status backup/restore? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [August 22, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/watched-status-backup-restore/203402 "2017-08-22T15:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![terrynewton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@terrynewton](https://forums.plex.tv/u/terrynewton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/watched-status-backup-restore/203402/1 "2017-08-22T15:38:34Z")
Hi, I currently use Kodi but am looking to give Plex a run instead. One of the features I use in Kodi is [Trakt.tv](http://Trakt.tv), so in a worse-case -scenario and my library/Kodi install goes belly-up, and can re-install Kodi, add the [Trakt.tv](http://Trakt.tv) addon & get all my TV Show/Movie progress back to how it was. I’m looking at using the Nvidia Shield to be my server, but understand that Trakt therefore can’t be installed on that device. Is there anything that I can do to backup my current view status so I would have to manually spend hours trying to figure out where I was up to in various movies/TV Shows? (It would also be useful if the watched status was sync’d between different clients - ie Shield Box, Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, iPad etc) Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/watched-status-backup-restore/203402/2 "2017-08-22T17:07:38Z")
View state is saved in the database. In general this is what you need to do to do that. [https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201154527-Move-Viewstate-Ratings-from-One-Install-to-Another](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201154527-Move-Viewstate-Ratings-from-One-Install-to-Another) However like the channel location such as trakt the database location on the shield is not user accessible. We do hope to have the ability to install channels like trakt in the future but don’t have an ETA on that ---
**Author:** ![terrynewton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@terrynewton](https://forums.plex.tv/u/terrynewton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/watched-status-backup-restore/203402/3 "2017-08-22T18:05:18Z")
Thanks for your input. So are you saying, for now, I would have no way at all of restoring my current watched list if my system were to crash? ---
**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/watched-status-backup-restore/203402/4 "2017-08-23T00:47:08Z")
If you are using a Nvidia shield then that is correct. ---
**Author:** ![terrynewton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@terrynewton](https://forums.plex.tv/u/terrynewton)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/watched-status-backup-restore/203402/5 "2017-08-23T10:06:51Z")
Ok, well, that’s me done for now then. I’ll keep an eye out to see if anything changes. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![kermit.01](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kermit.01/32/125906_2.png) [@kermit.01](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kermit.01)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/watched-status-backup-restore/203402/6 "2017-09-11T20:33:54Z")
There is a GitHub project attempting to fill this oversight. > **[jacobwgillespie/plex-sync](https://github.com/jacobwgillespie/plex-sync)** > > plex-sync - :clapper: Command line utility for synchronizing Plex watched / seen status It basically allows you to copy watched states from one plex server to another plex server and was designed with the Shield in mind. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/watched-status-backup-restore/203402/7 "2020-01-07T23:42:15Z")