rfc or suggestion--save backups function for gnucash

[Jean-David Beyer]

jdebert wrote:
> 
> In the case of my corrupted data files, the kernel had problems with 
> "complex" apps like gnucash. Saving in gnucash trashed the files it was 
> writing, including backups.

Are you sure it was a kernel problem and not a hardware problem? I ask 
because I have not had kernel problems since Red Hat Linux 6.0, and even 
those were more of the nature of the X Window System locking up, not file 
system corruption.

Furthermore, the kernel does not really have any way to measure, a priori, 
the complexity of an application and corrupt the data of only the 
"complex" ones.
> 
> The wrapper used the relatively simple "cp", which the kernel seemed to 
> have no problem with.
> 
> Most "complex" apps were affected by kernel misbehaviour. It just 
> happened that gnucash was the first thing used after a kernel update. It 
> was the first really bad kernel I'd ever had. Up til then, they were 
> sometimes flakey but never so bad as to damage stuff.
> 
> The kernel also trashed 3 usb disks later on, wiping out the extra backups.
> 
Really sounds like a hardware problem to me.

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