I was running Gramps on Fedora 41 under KDE Plasma and I upgraded my Fedora to F42.
Now when I start gramps it tells me I need to upgrade my database and I need a current backup. I’ve only been doing auto backups for a while now and when I look at the most current it’s only 1.3M. I used to backup database and all media as well but the backups were 3-4GB.
First concern: I can’t run a backup now since my new gramps is ver 6.0.6 and I’m not sure what my old version was but I think it was 5.2.4
Is their anyway I can get the old version on F42 or can I move what I think is my backup (made with autobackup) to another machine running F41 and create a backup with media. This can then be moved to the F42 machine and upgraded to whatever db gramps 6.0.6 needs?
Just make a copy of the database folder (the path is in preferences) before allowing the upgrade of the database.
Then do a full backup (with media) after the database is at the new version 21 schema.
If it upgrades and works with Gramps 6.0.6, then no worries. You only have worry about downgrading to Gramps 5.2.4 if you see problems. (Which is unlikely. The biggest complaint was from users of ‘thin’ linux OS distributions … those that opted not to include a json library. And since your Gramps 6.0.6 loaded far enough to complain about an old database schema, you are probably past that hurdle.)
Thanks, I backed up my files and then let Gramps convert the database. Everything went well! Thanks for the response. It just suprised me and caused me to take a close look at the way I’ve been letting the auto backup take care of things. It seems that I still need to do full backups with media regularly.