Re: [Gramps-users] Sync Gramps between two machines

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2010/7/16 Dianne Reuby <pra...@ya...>

> I run Gramps on my desktop, but I recently got a laptop and I thought it
> would be useful to run on that as I can take it with me when doing
> research.
>
> At the moment I'm syncing by backing up as usual and restoring it - but
> there must be a better way? My main worry is that I'll forget which
> machine has the latest version!
>
> I know it would be best to keep it on one machine, but I find my desktop
> easiest to use when I'm at home.
>
> I have 3.2.0.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.
>

There are many ways, you should experiment.

1. The safest is export to .gramps xml on usb and import from there. Nothing
can go wrong there, there is a timestamp on the file. Only problem is that
import is slow, and you need to manually delete previous versions of the
tree in the family manager

If the same OS and same architecture is used, you can reuse the binary
database file:

2a. in the preferences, set your database path to point to a large, quality
usb key. Then just move your usb key from one pc to the other. If you don't
want to change your database path (usb will not always be present), you can
open the database path from the console, see
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man1/gramps.1.html so:

gramps --open /media/disk1/grampsdb/4be850a3

You can put a desktop file on your desktop that does that on click. So you
once copy your initial database to usb key, then keep using it from there.

2b. A variant of above is that you copy the directory
/media/disk1/grampsdb/4be850a3 from usb to harddisk and back. But then you
are again at the problem of not knowing what was your last version

2c. Another variant is that you have an NFS shared hard disk and mount that
and that your database is there.

A note:
1. low quality usb disks can go bad on many writes and reads, so
complementing above with regular backups to .gramps xml file is required.
usb is faster than (some) hard disks though.
2. I tried none of the above myself, I work on one computer myself.
3. You will also need to store your pictures/documents on this USB key. Use
in the preferences: use relative media path, and set the base path for all
media to a directory on the usb. Then in the tools, convert your exiting
documents with absolute directory path to relative directory path.


Benny


> TIA for any advice,
> Dianne
>
>
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