Backup idea
David Brock
dmbrock at nm.cbc.ca
Tue Jul 20 14:21:29 EDT 2004
Ooh- how are they biting today? ;-)
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:55, Alan H. Lake wrote:
> I have received a request and have an idea as to how to fulfill it.
> I'd like to know if someone has a better idea or has developed part of
> what the implementation of this idea would require.
>
> The request is to be able to back up the GnuCash data so that it could
> be read by Excel. The thinking is that Linux machine are still in the
> minority and it would be good to be able to get at the data on a
> Windows machine in case of a disaster.
>
> It appears that GnuCash stores its data in XML format. I could use
> PHP to access the data, then write it out in CSV format. Right now, I
> don't know all of the tags that I might encounter, but I do know which
> ones are being used in the file I need to back up.
>
> Are there any ideas or suggestions that might expedite this project?
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