[Dxspider-support] Moving qsl.v1 to a new install ?

[Robert Chalmas]

Hi Tom,

Many thanks for this hint. I never noticed that command, but it worked fine
as the DX spots for over 3 years are available.

Vy 73's

Robert - HB9BZA

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> Hi Robert
> 
> qsl.v1 is easy to recreate (assuming you moved all of the
> /spider/data/spots   to the new PC.)  With spider halted, delete qsl.v1 and
> run    /spider/perl/create_qsl.pl     This will totally recreate qsl.v1.
> 
>                   73   Tom    WB8ZRL
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Chalmas" <rcbza at hb9bza.net>
> To: "DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 8:06 PM
> Subject: [Dxspider-support] Moving qsl.v1 to a new install ?
> 
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had to reinstall DXSpider (latest tarball) on a new PC after the
>> previous one was damaged by lightning.
>>
>> I had almost no problem recovoring data from a backup of the old PC,
>> except with the qsl.v1 file:
>>
>> the software doesn't complain about it, continues writing to it, but
>> obviously only information
>> which was written after the file was copied to the new machine can be
>> retrieved with sh/dxq.
>> The older information seems to be no more accessible.
>>
>> Is there a way to move this file to a new installation without loosing
>> its content ?
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Robert - HB9BZA
>>
>> P.S. I tried to find an answer in the archive of this list but I found
>> it's no more easy to look
>> for something as it's split in a lot of small parts for each month.
>> Before, it was possible to
>> download the full archive in a single file, which was much better at my
>> opinion.
>> Why was this possibility removed? Searching for "qsl.v1" in dozens of
>> files takes too much time!

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