I am trying to implement a simple SQLite
export/import for backup purposes. Export is just a matter of storing a copy of the raw current.db
file. What I want to do for import is to just delete the old current.db
file and rename the imported.db
file to current.db
. Is this possible? When I try this solution, I get the following error:
06-30 13:33:38.831: ERROR/SQLiteOpenHelper(23570):
android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabaseCorruptException: error code 11: database disk image is malformed
If I look at the raw database file in a SQLite
browser it looks fine.
I use this code in the SQLiteOpenHelper
in one of my applications to import a database file.
EDIT: I pasted my FileUtils.copyFile()
method into the question.
SQLiteOpenHelper
public static String DB_FILEPATH = "/data/data/{package_name}/databases/database.db";
/**
* Copies the database file at the specified location over the current
* internal application database.
* */
public boolean importDatabase(String dbPath) throws IOException {
// Close the SQLiteOpenHelper so it will commit the created empty
// database to internal storage.
close();
File newDb = new File(dbPath);
File oldDb = new File(DB_FILEPATH);
if (newDb.exists()) {
FileUtils.copyFile(new FileInputStream(newDb), new FileOutputStream(oldDb));
// Access the copied database so SQLiteHelper will cache it and mark
// it as created.
getWritableDatabase().close();
return true;
}
return false;
}
FileUtils
public class FileUtils {
/**
* Creates the specified <code>toFile</code> as a byte for byte copy of the
* <code>fromFile</code>. If <code>toFile</code> already exists, then it
* will be replaced with a copy of <code>fromFile</code>. The name and path
* of <code>toFile</code> will be that of <code>toFile</code>.<br/>
* <br/>
* <i> Note: <code>fromFile</code> and <code>toFile</code> will be closed by
* this function.</i>
*
* @param fromFile
* - FileInputStream for the file to copy from.
* @param toFile
* - FileInputStream for the file to copy to.
*/
public static void copyFile(FileInputStream fromFile, FileOutputStream toFile) throws IOException {
FileChannel fromChannel = null;
FileChannel toChannel = null;
try {
fromChannel = fromFile.getChannel();
toChannel = toFile.getChannel();
fromChannel.transferTo(0, fromChannel.size(), toChannel);
} finally {
try {
if (fromChannel != null) {
fromChannel.close();
}
} finally {
if (toChannel != null) {
toChannel.close();
}
}
}
}
}
Don't forget to delete the old database file if necessary.