Administrative tasks#

Administrative tasks are handled by the command-line interface. To get a quick overview of available commands, run:

$ hircine -h

Updating the application#

To update hircine, download the newest wheel and install it in the virtual environment:

$ source <VENVDIR>/bin/activate
(.venv) $ python -m pip install <WHEEL>

After the update it might be required to bring the database up-to-date. To do this, run:

$ hircine migrate

A backup will be created automatically.

To save a current backup of the database into the backup/ directory, run:

$ hircine backup

To restore a previously saved backup, stop hircine and simply replace the hircine.db file with the backup.

To optimize the SQLite database, run:

$ hircine vacuum

This is generally only recommended after deleting a large amount of data. Refer to the SQLite documentation for details on this process.