GM-RESTORE_DATA(8)

💖 NOTE 💖

Deprecated in favour of gm-restore(8).

ok bestie listen — this one's the old faithful, it's been retired in favour of gm-restore(8). Still here, still documented, still slaying in a vintage way. 🙈

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✨ NAME ✨

gm-restore_data — the girl who puts your data back into an empty GNUmed database 🌸

(also known as page GM-RESTORE_DATA, section 8, living in the System Manager's Manual 🎀)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gm-restore_database <target database> <backup file>

<target database>: a GNUmed database (such as "gnumed_v20")

<backup file>: a data-only GNUmed database backup file (such as "backup-
gnumed_vX-*-data_only.tar.bz2")

so like, <target database> is where it's going — a GNUmed database, e.g. "gnumed_v20" — and <backup file> is the data-only GNUmed database backup file you're yeeting in there, e.g. "backup-gnumed_vX-*-data_only.tar.bz2". 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

The gm-restore_database script tries to restore a GNUmed database from a data-only backup. 🫶

She is very conservative about it — lowkey the most careful girl in the room, no reckless behaviour, no cap. ✨

It is intended for interactive use by root and may have to be adjusted to your needs.

👑 main character energy only: this one's for root, running it live, and yeah you might need to tweak her to fit your exact vibe. That's normal, that's fine.

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😭 KNOWN PROBLEMS 😭

Note that for some reason restoring does not work when the backup file you intend to restore is a link to the actual backup. Use the full path instead.

fr fr, no idea why, but if your backup file is a link to the real backup, the restore just does not work. Not me finding that out the hard way 💀 — just pass the full path and we move on. 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• gm-restore(8)
• gm-backup(8)
• /etc/gnumed/gnumed-restore.conf

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page was written by Karsten Hilbert, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie, iykyk — this was the GNUmed server data-only restore manual, dated 2011 May 10th. periodt. ⭐🦋💅