[Digikam-users] database troubles

[Anders Lund]

Hi Samuel,

Tirsdag den 29. januar 2013 17:49:33 skrev Samuel Ronayette:
> Thank you anders,
> 
> well by "fiddling" I mean that I was actually trying to make such a back
> up! which I already had actually because I also rsync my folders to another
> disk, but then I played with this migration tool, and for some reason, I
> lost everything. I think I used the migration first with the default
> setting (SQlite --> SQlite and same source and folder destination) then I
> re-ran it by changing the destination directory (to this back up disk),
> then for a simple test, recopied the file I just migrated back to my
> original digikam folder.... but this file (although it is 20.6Mbytes large)
> seem to be a database with empty tables (but it has the tables for a usual
> digikam DB, but they are just empty...)

Sounds really bad. The tool is probably not meant for backup. I hope the developers 
read this thread, and consider if the default of using the same source and destination 
is wise!

> I'll just have to start all over again from the last backup of my digikam
> DB file I now have (more than a year ago...) ... or just give up...

Well, your backup should at least contain some of your data, and tagging and 
annotating is quite hard to do, at least for me, so I'd definately start with that!

In the future, just use a backup tool, and even cp if you want to work on the 
database.

Good luck restoring :)


-- 
Anders
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