On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 05:19, Chris Travers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all; > > For all of you using LedgerSMB 1.3 in production, please note that the > backup routines that come as part of LedgerSMB were apparently broken > by a number of framework changes between 1.2 and 1.3. They currently > do not produce valid backups. Backups with standard PostgreSQL tools > (pg_dump and pg_dumpall) work properly, so while significant, > workarounds exist. >
For those of you running Debian or derivatives (Ubuntu, et. al.), I personally recommend (and use) autopostgresqlbackup (apt-get install autopostgresqlbackup). > The problems include, among other things, the fact that users of the > software typically do not have sufficient permissions to create > backups. Given this and other changes I have decided to rewrite the > database backup routines rather than try to get the existing > functionality working. > > We expect to have a fix in place for 1.3.7, which will be due to be > released this next week. In the mean time, if you want to backup your > database, please use the above-mentioned tools. > > The new backup routines will be included in the database > administration utility (setup.pl) and will be run from there. You > will need to run one backup of roles for all db's plus a backup of > each individual db you want to back up. This can be done by database > administrators who have no valid LedgerSMB login. > > Best Wishes, > Chris Travers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users > David A. Bandel -- Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -- Albert Einstein Visit my web page at: http://david.bandel.us/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
