Re: [Gramps-users] Working with same database on few PCs?

[Vitali S. <vv...@ik...>]

Hi,

thanks to All! I will try in such a way.
gpkg is a best way to be relaxed.

If I want to syncronize folders, is it enough to sync /home/.gramps and
folder with media files?

Br,
Vitali

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 13:54 +0100, DougB wrote:
> Benny Malengier wrote:
> > 2009/12/8 Michael Lightfoot <mic...@pc...>:
> >   
> >> On Tuesday 08 December 2009 20:09:24 Benny Malengier wrote:
> >>     
> >>> 2009/12/8 Vitali Samurov <vv...@ik...>:
> >>>       
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a "mobile" GRAMPS on my Debian laptop and an "office" GRAMPS on
> >>>> the desktop. What is a good practice to have both databases to be
> >>>> synchronized?
> >>>>         
> >> (...)
> >>     
> >>> 3/you can then work of an NFS drive (last I checked samba did not
> >>> work) by setting the database location in the preferences, or opening
> >>> the NFS hosted family tree from the command line (see 'man gramps').
> >>> This avoids needing an rsync, but might be slower and you need an NFS
> >>> share.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> NFS is not a great deal of use if you are in another city with your laptop.
> >> ;-)
> >>
> >> I regularly rsync my gramps backups (gpkg files) between my main Linux box
> >> (running Debian Testing) and my laptop (running latest Ubuntu).  It does mean
> >> fiddling with the media files each time I wipe the old database and import the
> >> latest version, but I will live with that until we devise a better way...
> >>     
> >
> > It would be easier to rsync/copy-paste a directory with media and use
> > the relative path, as opposed to gpkg. I see gpkg as a way to give all
> > my data to another person, not as a way to move between my own PC's.
> >
> > Benny
> >   
> I do both - via gpkg and just rsync'ing /home, with media set to 
> relative path (where the structure on the desktop and laptop are the 
> same, tho' 32-bit and 64-bit). They both work OK - gpkg is safer; but  
> for peace of mind you really do need to keep an up-to-date Gramps 
> portable XML backup.
> Good luck!
> 
> Doug
> 
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