I followed the Locomotive instructions to install Tracks.  Now I want to make sure that the proper user files are added to my backup routines.  Does anyone know which files hold my user info?  I’m guessing from mod dates that its “/tracks-1.041/db/tracks-104.db”.  Is this correct?

Thanks,
Sean

If you’re using SQLite3 as your database, and you’ve specified tracks-104.db as your database, then yes—you should back up that file. If you want to be extra careful, you can also make a dump of the contents, so if the database gets corrupted, you can just make a new database and use that.

Go into Terminal and type the folowing, replacing ‘pathtotracks’ with the full path to your tracks installation of course:


cd /pathtotracks/db/
sqlite3 tracks-1041.db .dump > ~/Desktop/tracks_dump.sql


The file tracks_dump.sql will be a text file containing all the commands necessary to restore your db, and you can save that somewhere safe.

bsag,

Thanks for the advice.  Dumping the contents occasionally sounds like an excellent idea also.

Regards,
Sean