Re: Lost my gramps data base ... help!

John, I had that happen once too. You should set up a cron job to take a
Gramps back up at a regular interval.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 3:13 PM Glenn McK <[email protected]> wrote:

> Did you backup the dot directory; ie:  ~/.gramps. That's where the
> configs and other important stuff are
>
> ~/.gramps/gramps51/gramps.ini
>
> grep gramps51/gramps.ini -e backup-path
>
> or view gramps.ini in a text editor and see where various preferences
> were set to.
>
> The database should be at...
> ~/.gramps/grampsdb
>
> grep gramps51/gramps.ini -e recent-file
> should return the last entry database used. (previous versions will be
> in that directory.)
>
> On 31/01/2022, John Sibert <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Linux Mint 20.3 Una
> > gramps 5.1.1
> >
> > Alas, I managed to delete my home directly, completely. I was the only
> > user with root privileges and was unable to effectively fix anything. So
> > after a long struggle session, committed upgrade on my OS and went from
> > Mint 19.3 to 10.3 (something I had been planning to do anyhow). I keep
> > habitual backups on an external NAS drive and was able to recover most
> > of the deleted files. I installed a fresh copy of gramps, but was unable
> > to recover my data base. All of the media files seem to be pesent, but I
> > can find no trace of the sql database. I did backups two days before I
> > lost anything, but they were media backups, hence no database. I did
> > find an older file, Sibert-2019-2019-09-19-12-04-49.gramps, and imported
> > it into gramps, but it is two year out of date.
> >
> > One of several questions I have is where (ie directory and file) does
> > gramps write data when you "Quit" a gramps session?
> >
> > I have a couple of suggestions that might help other gramps users avoid
> > this dilemma, but I would really like to restore my database first.
> >
> > Any help would be gratefully received and rewarded with beer points.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
> >
> >
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