Data backup

[jens]

Dave, thanks for your help. I have managed to recover about half of my stuff 
.... files generated with version 1.4. The latest list of entries that was 
done with 1.6 is recovered as a file but I get :

This file appears to be from a newer version of GnuCash. You must upgrade 
GnuCash to read this file.

Would you know if there is any way of getting the data into GnuCash ?

BTW, your previous help saved me a number of (painful) hours of re-entry ... 
thanks again !!!

Jens


On Thursday 14 June 2001 23:34, you wrote:
> 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
>
>
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