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Revision number 4. |
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Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change |
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Author: Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@g.o> |
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Posted: 2018-01-11 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: <app-office/gnucash-4 |
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Along with changes to use modern libraries, GnuCash 2.7+ has changed the |
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schema [1] it uses for both databases and files. GnuCash will |
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automatically modify the file or database in place upon open. |
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Therefore, it is imperative that you back up any files or databases |
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before using GnuCash 2.7 in case you run into an issue and want or need |
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to revert back to 2.6. |
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Close any open session of GnuCash including remote sessions, then |
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follow the relevant backup instructions as follows: |
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For XML (plain files): |
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$ cp /path/to/file.gnucash /path/to/file.gnucash.bak |
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For MySQL: |
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$ mysqldump gnucash_db | xz > gnucash-2.6.sql.xz |
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For PostgreSQL: |
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$ pg_dump -U gnucash_user -Z 5 gnucash_db > gnucash-2.6.sql.gz |
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For SQLite: |
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$ cp /path/to/sqlite.file.gnucash /path/to/sqlite.file.gnucash.bak |
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[1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/2.7.0a |
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