Re: [Health] GNUHealth back-up

[Luis Falcon]

Dear Yusuf


On 2/24/22 22:46, Yusif Suleiman wrote:
> Dear All,
> While working with gnuhealth on a laboratory for production, we decided 
> to back-up the data.
> I followed the documentation on Wiki Control Center, in order to back up 
> my db before going to the production Dbase, and I have these errors.
>
> Someone should please help me. 'Desktop' is directory for saving the 
> backup, and 'UCHealth' is the name of the database on my system.
>
> # gnuhealth-control version
> 3.6.5.1-openSUSE
>
> usage: gnuhealth-control command [options]
>
>
> # gnuhealth-control backup --backdir <desktop> --database <UCHealth>
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

The "<>" and "[]" denote required and optional parameters, respectively, 
but you don't have to include them.

So, please try something like:

$ gnuhealth-control backup --backdir /tmp --database UCHealth

This is an example... the backup would go to the /tmp dir .

> Secondly, it was very easy to generate invoice on Demo database, but I 
> try to generate an invoice on my installed database I couldn't. Maybe I 
> miss a step.
Please open a new thread with this question, and keep up posted!

Have a great weekend!

All the best
Luis