![]() Open QuiteRSS and you should see that the backup has been restored along with your customizations like “star” feeds etc. $ cp feeds.db /home/thomaspc/.local/share/data/QuiteRss/QuiteRss/feeds.dbĬp: overwrite ‘/home/thomaspc/.local/share/data/QuiteRss/QuiteRss/feeds.db’? yĪgain, hit y key and then the return key when it asks you for permission to overwrite the feeds.db file. Hit y key and then the return key when it asks you for permission to overwrite the file. If you’re using Linux, open the terminal and then copy the files as shown below (substitute your user name for “thomaspc”): $ cp QuiteRss.ini /home/thomaspc/.config/QuiteRss/QuiteRss.iniĬp: overwrite ‘/home/thomaspc/.config/QuiteRss/QuiteRss.ini’? y Rename the two files created from the backup to QuiteRss.ini and feeds.db.Ĭlose QuiteRSS before restoring the backup. Depending on the date of your backup, they’ll look like this – QuiteRss.ini_07-57-56.bak and feeds.db_07-57-56.bak. When you make a backup, the program creates two files. Offering a way to create the backup from within the program’s menu but not to provide a way to restore the backup from inside the program menu seems odd.īut it didn’t take long for me to find a solution to restoring the backup. Unfortunately, there’s no option to recover from a backup from inside the QuiteRSS program. I first copied the backup from my Linux Mint 17.2 to an USB drive and then copied the files to the desktop of my CentOS system. Recently I wanted a copy of my carefully picked QuiteRSS feeds on a CentOS 7 system. Like any good IT user, every month or so I make a backup of QuiteRSS (Via File –> Create Backup on the menu bar) from inside the program just in case I need it later. The free reader works on Windows and Mac OS X too but I have yet to try them on those platforms. The reader works fine on Linux and I can’t recollect it ever crashing on me. I’ve installed it on Linux Mint and CentOS. ![]() QuiteRSS is an excellent open source cross-platform RSS news feed reader that I have been using for about a year now with mucho satisfaction.
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