Crash recovery granularity

[Trevor Barton]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Through 1.8.4, the granularity is "the last time you hit the "save"
> button".  Unfortunately there is nothing to actually read the logs.
> This will change in 1.8.5 where there exists a new log format and an
> actual "log replay" feature.

Gulp.  I'll keep hitting Ctrl-S then!

Cheers,
Trev

> Trevor Barton <tmb at isotek.co.uk> writes:
> 
> 
>>I'm sure it's well thought out, but can someone give me some
>>indication of the crash recovery granularity for gnucash.  By that I
>>mean, if the program were to crash while I was in the process of
>>entering data, how much entered but unsaved data could I expect to
>>recover on restart?
>>
>>To put it in context, I've recently moved from Quicken to gnucash.
>>Quicken seems to commit transactions to disk as soon as they are
>>entered, and, although it has crashed a fair number of times over the
>>period I've been using it it has never either lost data or corrupted
>>its database, and I suspect that because it carefully handles its
>>files and commits.
>>
>>I'm sure gnucash does, too, and I see there are a number of log files
>>and others written to the disk as I progress.  Will they give me an
>>up-to-the-minute recovery after a crash, or can I expect to lose some
>>data?  Does gnucash detect on startup that the main database and the
>>log files are inconsistent and offer recovery choices?
>>
>>I hasten to add that it's not crashed on me yet.  However, I feel
>>nervous enough to be continually saving the database, and really what
>>I'm after is some sort of reassurance that I don't need to be doing
>>that!
>>
>>Trev
>>
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