Linux: 2.4.11 migratoin to 2.6.13 Guide?
David T.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 8 14:12:30 EDT 2016
Actually, James, have a look at:
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html>
The section before might prove helpful as well:
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html>
Cheers,
David
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 10:48 PM, james <garftd at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> OH,
>
>
>
> I did find overlook this in the FAQ::
> "backup my data"
> If you're using the XML (default) backend, GnuCash makes local backups for you every time it saves your file. It does this by renaming the previous version of the file with a date-time-stamp and a new .gnucash suffix. For example, if your data file is named MyAccounts.gnucash, one of the backups might be named MyAccounts.gnucash.20140131150812.gnucash.
>
>
> So that is the magic, all-inclusive data file to move over to the new system? Any others files to move over? Just follow the backup/restores
> directions?::
>
> "To restore from an off-disk backup, just copy MyAccounts.gnucash back into the directory where the original is. "
>
> ???
> Will that work to migrate from one (2.4.11) install to a 2.6.13 install
> on a new system, both linux?
>
>
> James
>
>
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>
>
> On 09/08/2016 01:38 PM, james wrote:
>> Hello David,
>>
>> As I mentioned before, there is nothing in the manual or Tutorial
>> located at gnucash.org, related to upgrades and moving to a different
>> computer; surely these are common occurrences... Upgraded on gentoo is
>> quite trival (emerge -u <pkg>) or a new installation on a new system
>> (emerge <pkg>). So I guess I should refined the question to what data
>> sets need to copied to the new installation?
>>
>> Parsing the 'http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ' FAQ, I did find these
>> tidbits::
>>
>> 1. Lots of antidotes to problems, after a migration
>> (gnucash --nofile); remove/rename reports.
>>
>> 2. Make sure gnucash-docs is installed (it is) assuming that's the
>> standard linux manpage for gnucash?
>>
>> 3. Data files (default xml or sqlite) good to know, now I just have to
>> find the location dir of those xml files? Note this page::
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_XML_format suggests the gzip files
>> are indeed the xml format files.
>>
>>
>> 4. Reference to this document::
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User_Configuration_Files
>> But, none of those files
>>
>> On the old system I do see these files::
>> using the linux 'file' command, interestingly the file types below are::
>>
>> 'FORTRAN program' and 'gzip compresses data, from Unix', respectively.
>>
>> cat1.gnucash.2015#########.log
>> cat1.gnucash.2015#########.gnucash
>>
>> And this file::
>> gnucash.workpages.27aug2016.gnucasch.2016#########.log
>>
>> I also found these files::
>> /etc/gnucash/:: 'config', which is mostly empty and 'environment' which
>> seems to be important.
>>
>>
>> And this directory ~user/.gnucash with 3 dirs (books checks translog)
>> with the files 'accelerator-map' which is significant, and
>> 'stylesheets-2.0' which is scant (probably default) and
>> 'expressions-2.0' which is empty.
>>
>> Now, reading the standard man pages for 2.6.13::
>>
>> 'man gnucash' is short and identical to 'info gnucash'
>>
>> I'm not certain there are examples and useful information in
>> gnucash-docs-2.6.13, nor how to access those documents on (gentoo) linux?
>>
>>
>> Guidance on these file and migration/upgrade are most welcome.
>>
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/08/2016 11:15 AM, David Carlson wrote:
>>> Perhaps the help documentation was not installed in your instance of
>>> Linux. Go to the gnucash.org <http://gnucash.org> website and check the
>>> documentation there.
>>>
>>> You will find that it is very easy, as all you have to do is copy your
>>> data file to your new data folder and do a fresh install of GnuCash. If
>>> you need to retain custom reports or user settings there is a section in
>>> the FAQs about how to do that.
>>>
>>> David C
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:50 AM, james <garftd at verizon.net
>>> <mailto:garftd at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've been using gnucash for (4) years for a small business, without
>>> issue on gentoo linux. Surely that's a testament to the fine folks
>>> that wrote and maintain this codebase (kudos!).
>>>
>>> So I looked at the wiki, the Help Manual and the Tutorial and Concept
>>> documents, and found nothing. Surely there is a list of files, I
>>> need to copy the data over to a new computer with a fresh install of
>>> gnucash on linux, and maintain the same chart of accounts. NO fancy
>>> database, just the defaults when it was installed (as in 2.4.x).
>>> Once I make this migration, I may do it twice onto (2) different
>>> systems, just to have one to experiment with new features, using a
>>> database (like postgres) and other interfaced scripts and programs
>>> for test and development.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'd think just using the same dir structure(s) and using scp as the
>>> gnucash-2.4.11 file(s) transfer tool, while maintaining file
>>> permissions and (tree)locations, would do the trick so when
>>> gnucash-2.6.13 is fired up on the new system, it's pretty much the
>>> same?
>>>
>>>
>>> I find no list of file(s) or guidelines for such an upgrade-transfer
>>> semantic. Perhaps an indexed point into the archives of this list
>>> where such an email has been previously posted? Or did I miss such
>>> steps in an obvious document?
>>>
>>>
>>> Any guidance is greatly appreciated,
>>> James
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