From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2010-07-17 07:11:47
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2010/7/17 Benny Malengier <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. > > PS: also use a sync tool to sync your images on the usb with a directory in your PC's, for example with http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/screenshot.html > > Benny > > >> TIA for any advice, >> Dianne >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint >> What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? >> Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first >> _______________________________________________ >> Gramps-users mailing list >> Gra...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users >> > > |