Re: [Gramps-users] Backup of data

[Henriette H. <hen...@gm...>]

Don and Benny,

Thanks for a very thorough walk through of the backup process. I'll
give it a try moving from one old Ubuntu to another equally old one
and if that works I'm ready for the plunge :o)

-Henriette

On 30/05/07, Don Allingham <don...@co...> wrote:
> Henriette,
>
> Thanks for checking with us before you did this. The GRAMPS databases do
> not like to be moved and renamed, however since you are coming from
> GRAMPS 2.0 instead of 2.2, the risk is lower. Before you upgrade do the
> following:
>
>   1) Export the data to the GRAMPS XML format. You can do this under the
>      File -> Export menu.
>   2) Upgrade your system. Chances are, this will upgrade your version
>      of GRAMPS as well. If it does not upgrade GRAMPS for your, you can
>      install GRAMPS either by:
>
>           * Using synpatic
>           * Running the following from the command line:
>
>               apt-get install gramps
>
>           * Going to http://sf.net/projects/gramps and downloading the
>             ubuntu .deb file available there. Firefox should be able
>             to install it by running "gdebi".
>
>   3) Open your existing ".grdb" file. GRAMPS should upgrade it. However,
>      if for some reason this fails, you can create a new database and
>      import your GRAMPS XML file into it, which would restore all your
>      data.
>
> Don
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 14:13 +0200, Henriette Holm wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I'm using Gramps 2.0.8-1 on some old, old version of Ubuntu (I know,
> > time to do an upgrade).
> > Anyway, I have a folder with my *.grdb file and some subfolders with
> > pictures, documents etc. Now I want to do a backup of this data before
> > I do an upgrade. How is this done? Do I just copy everything or do I
> > need to do something specific to keep all the "links" from person to
> > documents to pictures etc.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Henriette
> >
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