Template:Backup Omissions

The Gramps Package backup only contains your family tree and if selected your media.

The following settings in Gramps are not transferred:

• Any changes you have manually made to gramp.ini
• Any custom settings for reports (report_options.xml) you have made.
• Any custom Books (books.xml) you have created.
• Any custom holiday sets or country calendars (holidays.xml) you have created.
• Any changes you have made to the dictionary for spell checking eg: new or excluded words.
• Any custom filters (custom_filters.xml) you have created.

Custom Filter migration Keep your collection of custom filters through a minor updates to patch Gramps (e.g., from version 5.1.0 to 5.1.2) by manually copying your custom_filter.xml from Gramps User Directory to the corresponding directory in new gramps_version_number. Even minor upgrades with feature changes (e.g., from a 5.0.x to a 5.1.x version) may include XML format changes since the recent innovation of add-on rules are causing rapid evolution in Filters. So porting filters in this manner requires verification that the XML definitions haven't changed. Also, Add-on rules may have to be installed in the new upgrade before copied custom filters will work safely.

You can keep your custom settings by manually copying each of the *.xml files from the Gramps User Directory to the corresponding directory in the new gramps_version_number directory. Beware that due to changes in newer versions of Gramps the settings may no longer work, so be sure to test.

Description

Transclusion template. Inserts a Work-In-Progress chunk of text about information not included in Backups that are important when migrating data.

(Since the content was replicated several times, it makes sense to have a master copy that only needs to be edited once. Once the data is finalized, the Template can be permanently substituted via subclusion. Alternatively, a separate page may created and links could replace this transclusion.)

Usage

insert the following line on the page:

{{Template: Backup Omissions}}