Backup/Restore Podcast Producer workflows,feeds, content, etc

Anyone have a best practice for backing up Podcast Producer. The documentation(Podcast Composer, Podcast Producer Admin, Podcast Prod Workflow) are all silent on the issue. I would guess I can use my favorite tool to move the podcast Library root directory to some other device and I assume this will save all my content. But then how to get it back in the case of a full blown crash or if PCP2 has to be reinstalled? My 'guess' is I would get the workflows back by doing podcast --installworkflow ... and get the feeds back by copying the Content directory and then doing pcastconfig --synch_library. Does anyone know or have pointers to more documentation? Are there any more technical docs around somewhere that explain how the file system and database , workflows, feeds, web server and rails files all work together?
thanks

Okay, just to be clear ... your log messages show the shared secret, right? What I'm asking is if you're editing it out before posting your log results to the forums here ... going by the logs, you don't have a shared secret. However, I think if you're editing it out for us, you're doing the wise thing (clearly, you don't want us to know). My question to you is that you yourself are seeing it in the log messages, correct? I do know that you're entering it in PcP ... what I'm wondering is if there is a disconnect somehow between what you have in the PcP GUI and what shows up in logs.
Another question I have for you is that if you upload content in other ways does it always work?
You know, in a worst case scenario, I could probably make you a command-line util that would do the upload ... similar, but different ... from Apple's ... just for testing purposes. You could swap mine for Apple's. Not that I think I'm a better coder than Apple ... this test would be to rule out local net issues ... that kind of thing.

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I like to show poster art of an random frame of the movie.

You actually are publishing images. For example:
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You aren't seeing these images because of the way Safari parses feeds. Try using curl from the command line or another browser. Safari and Podcast Producer really don't play well together. A good example is trying to use the SSL port to view feeds.
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Podcast Capture is designed to work with Podcast Producer, which is part of OSX Server. If you are running that you would do best to ask in its Forum. I don't know whether you can get any use out of Podcast Capture with non-server OSX.

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Fri Jul 11 13:01:30 podcast.acs.ocad.ca xgridagentd[1109] <Notice>: Notice: agent task "11438" failed for user "pcastxgrid" executable "/usr/bin/pcastaction" arguments (\n iTunesU,\n "--basedir=/Volumes/Content/Shared/Recordings/4900EF02-5717-4F5B-B420-48780F797 998",\n "--input=ScreenCapture-2008-07-10-180542-ipod.m4v",\n "--title=Bojana Test (video)",\n "--description=",\n "--site_url=ocad.ca",\n "--tab_id=1589674576.01589674581",\n "--credential=Administrator@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:ocad.ca",\n "--display_name=hidden",\n "[email protected]",\n "--user=hidden",\n "--user_id=1028",\n "--pcast_server=https://podcast.acs.ocad.ca:8170/podcastproducer",\n "--otp=/cjLUErIVJxKnx/ZCOalWA=="\n)
To test from the command line I am generating a fresh OTP just fyi in case someone is searching:
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Just for good measure, here is a successful log for the same workflow, same user:
Mon Jul 14 14:57:09 podcast.acs.ocad.ca xgridagentd[1109] <Notice>: Notice: agent task "81237" started for user "pcastxgrid" executable "/usr/bin/pcastaction" arguments (\n iTunesU,\n "--basedir=/Volumes/Content/Shared/Recordings/F0FAE0CE-7BAA-43AD-BA8B-75A14FBD4 70C",\n "--input=ScreenCapture-2008-07-14-123118-ipod.m4v",\n "--title=test (video)",\n "--description=test",\n "--site_url=ocad.ca",\n "--tab_id=1589674576.01589674581",\n "--credential=Administrator@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:ocad.ca",\n "--display_name=hidden",\n "--email=[email protected]",\n "--user=hidden",\n "--user_id=1028",\n "--pcast_server=https://podcast.acs.ocad.ca:8170/podcastproducer",\n "--otp=ixAqXmjxoZnvCEqkQQ3vqA=="\n)

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Hi. I clicked some snaps from my iphone and post that without copying it i restored the iphone with all apps etc available from the backup taken. How do i get back the photos which were clicked earlier. Is there a way to get it back?? Please help

Yes i had not taken back up before restoring it. However i was just going through some links on the net and there is a software available for MAC to retrieve such lost data. But the point is will the said software work on iphone as the OS is not MAC..
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Hi people. Two questions
I have a self hosted i tunes u on mac server. Is it possible to edit rss feeds once they have been published by podcast producer? eg remove particular tracks from a particular feed or rename as track for instance?
Also when i tunes u is actually accessed through the interface no track time information is visible for any of of the podcasts? is this a common problem? and does anyone know how to solve it?
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Nick
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Your 'tunes:summary' in the top section of the feed has several instances of the string
<br/>
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