Backing Up Data

Jennifer R. Garrison Stuber garrisonstuber@bellsouth.net
Tue, 21 May 2002 20:07:03 -0700


You only need the main file.  The other XAC files are backups of previous
sessions that GNUCash creates automatically.  The GNUCash file is XML, so it
compresses very, very nicely.  My GNUCash file is around 9 megs, but it
compresses down to about 200k using gzip with the -9 flag.  At that point
you don't really need to span floppies.

My recommendation would be to do something like:

gzip -9 -c postwin > postwinbackup.gz

This will compress postwin, sending the compressed output to
postwinbackup.gz, without changing the original file.

You can than copy postwinback.gz off to your backup medium.


----- Original Message -----
From: tom <tompurl2000@yahoo.com>
To: Gnucash User <gnucash-user@lists.gnucash.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: Backing Up Data


> This is probably the mother of all newbie quesitons, but I just switched
> from Quicken 2002 on Win4Lin to GnuCash 1.6.6 and I don't know how to
> back up my data.  I've had a few problems with this computer before
> where backing up my financial data was *very* handy, and I want to be
> able to do the same with my GnuCash data.
>
> I looked in the online manual and I didn't see anything about backing up
> data.  The name of my main file is "postwin".  Do I only have to back
> that file up or do I have to worry about any of the other files (like
> the *.xac" files)?  Also, is there a way to "break up" my backup data so
> I can store it on multiple floppy discs (like I can in Quicken)?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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