[APBeta] v2.4a8 destroying observation database, also backup/restore failure

[Paul Rodman]

Yeh. You’re not the only one. I’m investigating and fixing. 

The issue is the major internal changes that happened recently. All database operations now throw exceptions rather than reporting error codes. I was also forced to use a new plugin to do file zipping and unzipping (used in the backup/restore files). I’m working on that too. 

I was on a mini-vacation over the Christmas/New Year period (no, not the Caribbean, but a visit to a town north of Seattle to get in some hiking and fresh air), so my brain is now rested and slowly coming back up to speed.

Paul R.

> On Jan 5, 2021, at 4:42 PM, Sam Finn <lsfinn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi - 
> 
> I’m having problems with  v2.4a8 destroying my observation database and also being unable to carry-out backup/restore operations. 
> 
> At present I’m fine: I’ve restored my observation from time machine. 
> 
> Here’s what I’m finding, though: 
> * When asked, v2.4a8 appears to create backup files; however, when I try to read those backups it reports that they files are unreadable. 
> * v2.4a8 can read backup files produced by v2.3
> * I’m currently doing a full backup using v2.3; however, I’m getting the occasional alert panel with messages like “Error 23 when archiving 2020-12-30 10-27-51.67.zip” where the indicated files (i.e., "2020-12-30 10-27-51.*.zip”) are all associated with the previous unreadablle v2.4a8 backup files. 
> 
> Thus, while I’ve dropped use of the beta to go back to v2.3, I’m concerned that I’m not able to produce a reliable full backup. 
> 
> And, absent the ability to produce a full backup without error, I’m reluctant to read from or write to the database. 
> 
> Has anyone else encountered anything similar? Can you shed any light on the reliability of the full backup now being produced by v2.3? 
> 
> Thanks much, 
> 
> Sam
> 
> —
> Sam Finn
> lsfinn at gmail.com <mailto:lsfinn at gmail.com>

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