Re: [Gramps-users] Help! Database corruption

[Michiel N. <m.d...@he...>]

Hi,

Did you read the instructions on the wiki:
http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recover_corrupted_family_tree#Family_Tree_corruption

So go to the .gramps/grampsdb/somenumber directory. Check the name.txt 
file in there to make sure you are in the right directory and use the 
db_recover command.

You can verify for yourself that this procedure should work by just 
creating a new family tree, fill it with some data, kill -9 Gramps, go 
to directory with the database files and run db_recover.

Michiel

On 11/20/2011 10:55 AM, Jeff Silver wrote:
> My wife has spent many hours entering data in our gramps database.
> One day, we got the warning that the database needed to be repaired. Maybe
> we shut down inelegantly.
> After the repair, all the recently added data seemed to be missing.
> I ran 'strings' on the log.0000000001 file and saw a lot of stuff that was
> definitely some of the missing data.
> The various .db and .gbkp files had not been updated for a long time.
>
> I don't know a lot about the workings of Berkeley DB, but I guess that the
> .db files were not updated because the log.0000000001 file had not got big
> enough to have its contents flushed, but I'm happy to be corrected on
> that.
>
> I'm running Gramps 3.2.3-1.
>
> I have now instituted a regular-copy backup to let me recover if this
> happens again (yes yes, I should have done that before).
>
> But does anyone have any ideas as to how I can recover or extract the data
> that seems to be in the log.0000000001 file?
>
> --
> Jeff
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