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#6 Merg database
Recently had problems opening a database in TAMB
v1.0b2, so I utilized my backup to post a couple of
entries to my blog. But my back up wasn't up to date,
so I'm missing several entries. Now that I finally got
the original database working, I'd like to transfer my
latest entries from my back up database to the full
database. How do I do that?
I've already tried importing from the feed, but that
doesn't import the entire blog entry, just the first
sentence. That also gives me a new date for the entry,
as well as a new entry id #.
Please help, thanks.
IWMom
PS. Here's how the blog currently looks, click the
archives links to see the full extent of the problem:
http://www.investingwithmom.com/iwm/blog/blog.html
Logged In: YES
user_id=832647
Unfortunately, there is no way to merge tamb databases.
If you can open the backup, you could set the feed to write
the full text of the entries (Config weblog/General options)
and then try re-importing the feed back into the orignal.
Or, just copy/paste them over manually. Then change the
dates of the imported/copied entries and do a Republish
entire blog. The down side to this is that you'd have new
IDs for the copied entries. But unless the entry has
comments, this shouldn't be much of a problem.
As a side note, the Can't open database error typically
has three causes:
1.The folder where the blog db files reside was
moved/renamed/deleted and as a result TAMB tries to open a
non-existant user.xml file when it starts. This is the most
common reason.
2.The user.xml file got hosed. This (hopefully!) was fixed
in 1.0b4. Haven't seen any reports of it since.
3.The database got corrupt. This one appears to be the most
rare.
Most likely your was cause 2 since you were able to recover
the original DB. It probably would be a good idea to upgrade
to the most recent version.
Should be a function that provides automated DB backup and
restore so this sort of thing doesn't happen :)