Re: [Gramps-users] Synchronizing databases?

[Ciro I. <cy...@gm...>]

2008/9/18 Benny Malengier <ben...@gm...>:
> The safest is export to XML, move to other computer, and start there with
> importing.
>
> To make things easier, you can set up an NFS share on your PC, and open the
> database from that share on the laptop when you can access the PC from the
> laptop. This reduces some overhead, more info is on the wiki.
>
> If you synchronise the database directory in .gramps with some tools, things
> __MIGHT__ work magically if some conditions are met (same gramps version,
> same python version, same bsddb version, so in essence, same operating
> system installed compiled with same gcc compiler :-D), but for safety do

I assumed this for my recommendation....

> regular backups using the export to XML tool (you might synchronise in the
> wrong way, overwriting the newer files to name but one possibility)

With unison you have a graphical arrow that shows the direction of the
synchronization for each file.. But Sh*t happens, so backups are a
must in any scenario...

>
> Allowing for import/merge is one of the feature requests, but very hard to
> tackle, so do not expect it in the near future.
>
> Benny
>

Regards,
Ciro