Re: [Gnumed-bugs] Problems restoring from a backup - directory ... does not exist

[Busser, Jim]

On 2015-01-14, at 2:57 AM, Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Please post content of "/etc/gnumed/gnumed-restore.conf".
> 
>>      ==> Setting up workspace ... 
>> Users/djb/gnumed/gm-restore-2015-01-13-10-27-04
> 
> Given that the workspace name does NOT start with a "/" I
> would suspect the option WORK_DIR_BASE inside
> /etc/gnumed/gnumed-restore.conf does not start with one
> either ?

Ah, good catch … in my

        gnumed-backup.conf

I have 

        ...
        # where to eventually store the backup
        # BACKUP_DIR="${HOME}/.gnumed/backup/"
        BACKUP_DIR="/Users/djb/.gnumed/backup/"

whereas in

        gnumed-restore.conf

I had indeed left out the leading /

        …
        # set this to a writable directory on a drive where
        # there is plenty of disk space available
        # WORK_DIR_BASE="${HOME}/gnumed"
        WORK_DIR_BASE="Users/djb/gnumed"

prompting the question whether it is intended or recommended that WORK_DIR_BASE 
be set to be a fully specified, absolute path or whether some people can 
perfectly well leave it the default

        WORK_DIR_BASE="${HOME}/gnumed"

and if it might simply be that I had a Mac related problem (maybe even just 
$PATH related) whose workaround solution for me had been to opt for an absolute 
path.

-- Jim