Re: [Health] GNUHealth back-up

[Gerald Wiese]

Dear Yusif,

those characters '<' and '>' are placeholders. Please try it again without them 
and those brackets [].

Besides I'd recommend to use an absolute path like /home/yourusername/Desktop

Also there is GNU Health 3.8 and even 4.0 beta, if you want to upgrade.

About your second question regarding the invoice: Please tell what steps you did, otherwise it's difficult to say if you 
missed one.

Best

Gerald

On 2/24/22 23:46, Yusif Suleiman wrote:
> Dear All,
> While working with gnuhealth on a laboratory for production, we decided to 
> back-up the data.
> I followed the documentation on Wiki Control Center, in order to back up my db 
> before going to the production Dbase, and I have these errors.
>
> Someone should please help me. 'Desktop' is directory for saving the backup, 
> and 'UCHealth' is the name of the database on my system.
>
> # gnuhealth-control version
> 3.6.5.1-openSUSE
>
> usage: gnuhealth-control command [options]
>
> Command:
>    version : Show version
>    backup  : Backup the gnuhealth kernel, attach dir and database
>    update  : Download and install the patches
>    getlang : Get and install / update the language pack code
>    status  : Show environment and GNU Health Tryton server status
>
> Options:
>   --backdir  : destination directory for the backup file
>   --dry-run  : Check, download and preview, but don't actually update process
>   --database : database name to use with the backup command
>
> # gnuhealth-control backup --database
> 2022-02-24 22:11:56 [INFO] Environment variables
> 2022-02-24 22:11:56 [INFO] PYTHONPATH =
> Usage : gnuhealth-control backup --backdir <directory> --database <dbname>
>
> # gnuhealth-control backup --backdir <desktop> --database <UCHealth>
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
>
> # gnuhealth-control backup --backdir <desktop> --database <UCHealth>
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
>
> # gnuhealth-control backup --backdir <desktop> --database [UCHealth]
> bash: desktop: No such file or directory
>
> # gnuhealth-control backup --backdir [desktop] --database [UCHealth]
> 2022-02-24 22:15:44 [INFO] Environment variables
> 2022-02-24 22:15:44 [INFO] PYTHONPATH =
> 2022-02-24 22:15:44 [ERROR] Backup directory [desktop] not found !
>
>   # gnuhealth-control backup --backdir [Desktop] --database [UCHealth]
> 2022-02-24 22:16:00 [INFO] Environment variables
> 2022-02-24 22:16:00 [INFO] PYTHONPATH =
> 2022-02-24 22:16:00 [ERROR] Backup directory [Desktop] not found !
>
> Secondly, it was very easy to generate invoice on Demo database, but I try to 
> generate an invoice on my installed database I couldn't. Maybe I miss a step.
>
> looking forward for your support.
> Regards.
> Yusuf