Backing Up Data

[tom]

Thanks to everyone!  This was my first post and I got a *ton* of
wonderful support.  

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 22:07, Jennifer R. Garrison Stuber wrote:
> 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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