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

I guess this is one advantage of the Pick operating system, where files are
backed up, then they are recreated from backup with new sizing parameters.
It least that's how I recall it working back when I was a computer
operator. I'm probably remembering it at least partially wrong.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 4:06 PM Emyoulation--- via Gramps-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Sooner or later most tech users are burned by the backup practices they
> THOUGHT were sufficient.
>
> I've had commercial software (whose ONLY purpose is automated backup)
> doing nightly archives to DAT (with validation) spontaneously & silently
> change configuration due to security patches. And only discovered that we
> had weeks of unusable incremental backups when performing a quarterly full
> restore test.
>
> Some earlier tests were unusable because they were tied to the hardware
> configuration. The archives were fine if restored to the same server. But
> if that box crashed & burned, the backup software refused to restore to a
> different serial number configuration of motherboard, processor ID, OS
> license & c: drive.
>
> The lesson is that: no backup exists until it has been fully restored to a
> test box. Any backup you THINK is reliably stored off-site is smoke &
> mirrors until it is put to real world use.
>
> -Brian
>
>
>   On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 15:14, John Sibert<[email protected]>
> wrote:   Thanks to the gramps-users who replied to my recent plea for help.
> Ultimately, I was able to retrieve a .gramps backup file from one of the
> several backups that I had squirreled away on my NAS. So, everything
> seems to be more or less intact. I'm considering this episode to be a
> learning experience, and I thought I would share some of what I learned.
>
> I have one computer, a laptop that runs linux. As its sole user, I had
> administrator (super user) privileges, and never bothered to create a
> specific administrator account. That was my first bungle. My second
> bungle was to fool around with a second account, change the the new
> account UID to my own (administrator) UID. Then I deleted the new
> account, and since it had my own UID, my account was deleted. Thus there
> was no user on the computer that could fix anything requiring
> administrator access. So now that I have a new OS, the computer has 2
> users with administrator privileges. *TIL: have a second administrator
> account.*
>
> I have cron scripts that run daily to backup my home directory to (1) a
> NAS located in another room in our house and (2) to an remote service
> located far away. These steps ensure that if my computer is lost or its
> storage damaged, or if my house burns down, I will be able to retrieve
> at least some of my files. What could go wrong? First thing wrong: I
> modified my backup scripts so that when I needed them, the backed up
> files were not in the directories where I expected to find them.
> Instead, they were in a different directory. *TIL: verify that your
> backups script is putting things where you expect them. *Second thing
> wrong: I did not fully understand how gramps makes backups. In fact, i
> still have questions about how gramps makes backups. *TIL: Reread the
> documentation again.
>
> *Now, to get back to my family history.
>
> Thanks again and stay safe,
> John
>
> Contact me on Signal at +1 808 294 3842 (text, voice, or video; UTC -8)
>
> On 1/30/22 2:10 PM, John Sibert 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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