[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116944] Firebird-migration must happen only after user consent and advise to backup data prior to migration at 6.1

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116944

--- Comment #44 from Drew Jensen <drewjensen.inbox at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Tamas Bunth from comment #31)
> from bug title:
> "advise to backup data prior to migration at 6.1"
> 
> You can revert the migration by opening "content.xml" in the zipped
> structure and replace the URL "sdbc:embedded:firebird" with
> "sdbc:embedded:hsqldb". This will work, because the old HSQLDB data is still
> in the odb structure. You may also want to remove "database/firebird.fbk" so
> it won't make any surprises when you try to migrate next time.
> 
> Of course, the above method is not user friendly. I would like to suggest
> that - instead of advising the user to backup it's data - we should revert
> the changes automatically (with the above mentioned method) if the migration
> wasn't successful.
> 
> By "wasn't successful" I mean that the sdbc driver throws an exception -
> which indicates a lot of errors, but not all of them (e.g. what if something
> is just missing in the new format). In these cases the user could still
> revert the migration manually. Because of that, the above mentioned way to
> revert the migration should be put into a wiki or something.

Right you are and there is a place holder for that on the wiki now.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/FirebirdMigration

I just made sure that I have edit rights there and I do, so I'm willing to help
put that page together with you folks, if you'll have me.

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