Quick database question

[Colin Law]

On 28 December 2010 07:26, Shane Litherland <litherland-farm at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> I don't bother with all that hard work ;-) twas just an idea.. i'm fine
> backing up my db's from a simple command-line..

I didn't mean the hard work of backing up the db.  I meant the hard
work of providing that feature within GnuCash when the much simpler
File, Save Backup would do the job for most people.

Colin

> guess there's nothing wrong with an xml backup, I was thinking along
> lines of if one needs to resort to a backup, then it may mean the whole
> database needs restoring, which may have been quicker from a db backup
> file. But as another user has noted, there's more to db backups than
> that...
>
> regards,
> Shane