Anyway for StableDiffusion Folder (Models & Settings) BACKUP?

[seawithfire]

hi. recently i installed stable-diffusion-webui and MANY extension for it with many downloaded data and now my SD folder is 100GB, so im wondering is there any TESTED WAY to make a backup? i dont want download and setup all these again when i re-install my windows11. atleast no ALL OF THEME AGAIN.

[w-e-w]

to be honest the easiest thing to do is probably just keep the entire web UI directory

depending on how you install it webui may even be portable

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if for some reason you must delete the files then these are the files that you might want to try and keep

if you just want to back up web UI settings

by this I mean which extension you have to install it enabled and the things that you can configure it in the settings tab

then you should be able to just go under extensions tab backup/restore and save current configuration

this would save your web UI configuration including which extensions you have installed and enabled at the time
if you use this phone to restore on a clean install overview it will "not reinstall" the extensions automatically for you
but at least you would know what extent you had before

if you're talking about your downloaded such as models that mostly stored under the models folder by default
if you want to keep them and don't download it again then you want to backup these

your output images is by default in the outputs

depending on the extension, some extensions may create extra files, you have to save these files manually in order to restore them
some extensions put these extra files under their own extensions directory but others might put them somewhere else
sadly there's no rule on where they store extra data, the best way you can do is to read the extension documentations

[seawithfire]

i CAN keep the entire web UI directory but is it enough? isnt there any other data in "windows, program, local or..." folder? if i just move the entire web UI directory to my new installed windows, and then run SD, will i get the same thing that im using now? (and just need to install payton, git and visualstudio separately)

[w-e-w]

if you just move your dir it might not work (run) but all your data will be should* be saved
(like if your python evnriment is not set up then it will not wotk)

data such as temp file / cache will not be saved but I don't think you want them

simpley

there is

1. user data like configs / images etc, configs output images and extention created user data
2. code webui code and extention code (those .py files ), (total size should be very small)
3. assets, downloaded asses such as models, mostly in the models dir keep them if you don't want to download them again (and the models you train your self you will need a backup)
4. binary files and libires that is "installed", all theres are in venv dir and will be auto created on run so there is no real need to keep, but you keep it can make "reinstalling" faster skiping some downloads

windows, program, local or....

stuff like python, those are not "user" data, and the fles are small, and will have to be reinstall on a new OS
(unlless your are using a portable install of webui in whitch case the the entire dir is enough)

tldr
when moveing a install I will keep the entire webui dir but delete the venv (as I think is better to recreat venv)
unless your internet is slow you can "try" to keep the venv, other wise it should be able to create the veve in about 5 minunts

[seawithfire]

tnx. as my last question, i just find some hidden downloaded models of faceinsight in

• C:\Users\MyName\ .insightface

so i think there will be some data that i cant copy because i dont know where they are, So if i lose these files, what is the worst scenario?

1. the SD or some extenstions may not work and give me error?
   or
2. they will work but they will download those models again automatilcy when i run them?

[w-e-w]

unsure but likey 2.
insightface irrc is mostly used by fasce swap extention, if implemend correctly
but if 1. dose happens, reintall the extention cleaning out the old files
(fore example if a extention only downloads every file at once and only check if the dir exist to see if it should download the file, then if you have a empty dir it will not download and cause stuff to not workk, this is JUST a EXAMPLE of a bad implementation)