Re: [Gramps-devel] Database Loading Issue

[Kelvin L. <ne...@ki...>]

> Upgrading your disto shouldn't hurt, unless you trash your /home
> directory in the process. And in that case, you have to back up
> something. Why not the smaller XML package instead of the *huge* grdb
> file?

I'll certainly export to XML from now on. I hope everyone else who just 
backs up their .grdb file are aware of this for their sake.

Is the export to XML scriptable? I'd like to do this in a cron job. Also 
is it necessary to back up ~/.gramps, or is the XML file enough?

> Maybe you don't care about performance, but do you care about data
> integrity? This is what you will really be losing.

The integrity doesn't matter to me if I can't open it :-) Seriously 
though, I'm happy to use the new format together with a nightly export 
to XML, but people need to be made aware that this is necessary for 
backups (and not just "portability").