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

Many thanks to gramps users offering help. I fear I am up the creek:

Yes, the .gramps file was backed up.

The backup-path in gramps.ini points to /home/other/GrampsBackup. This 
would seem to be quite sensible, except that my cron triggered rsync 
backup script is configured to EXCLUDE the /home/other directory. 
(Entirely my choice, but I can't remember why I elected to save the 
backup in /home/other)

The recent-file contained in gramps/51/gramps.ini  is not accessible.

On ray of hope is that I was able to retrieve some data which is a 
snapshot of my efforts through 2019.

So what to next? I maintain a fairly extensive tree on ancestry.com. In 
the past, I have successfully imported a gedcom from ancestry. But 
gedcom files do not contain all of the data that is nice to have in 
gramps.The question is whether it is possible to merge my current 2019 
gramps data with the more recent people in the ancestry gedcom?

Thanks again for your help.
John

Contact me on Signal at +1 808 294 3842 (text, voice, or video; UTC -8)

On 1/30/22 15:13, Glenn McK 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 it into gramps, but it is two year out of date.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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