Data backup

[Dave Peticolas]

On 14 Jun 2001 22:28:18 -0700, jens wrote:
> Due to some major brain lapse on my part, I managed to delete my entire data 
> directory for GnuCash. After a LOT of digging, I finally gave up on 
> recovering the info. The files are there (as far as I know) but there are no 
> file names (just recovered Inode numbers) and the naming system used has 
> numbers and what-not in it which makes it impossible to guess at things. 
> Wanting to get something positive out of the experience, I am trying to find 
> out how to back up the data for GnuCash. I don't see any way to back up short 
> of duplicating the entire data directory. Is this the way I should go ? Has 
> anyone had any luck recovering from am major booboo such as mine ? If I back 
> up the data directory, will I be able to go to a different computer, start up 
> GnuCash and load the data from the first machine (I am concerned because of 
> the weird file names) ?

The only file you have to backup is the main one -- the one you open.
The others are log files and backups of older versions. Of course, you
may want to keep that history around as well. But probably not all of
them, that would be a ton of data :)

dave