[GRASS-windows] Copying data from location to location

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Louis Becker
<Louis.Becker at cellone.com.na> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to copy vector data from one location (loc1) to another (loc2).
> Loc1 used to be a copy of loc2, but now exists on another computer. I would
> like for copy a vector set from loc1 into loc2. The only way I can find is
> v.proj, but it takes very long.

In the case that loc1 is a copy of loc2, v.proj isn't ideal because
it is an unnecessary data modification.

> Another way would be to export and import,

Also not ideal...

> but I believe that it will also take very long. Is there another way?

Yes: just copy the files. The structure is very easy in case you
use DBF as backend (or almost also with SQLite).
You need to package the relevant DBF file(s) in the dbf/ directory
and the vector geometry directory. Just extract on the target
computer into the appropriate directories and that's it.

Markus