rfc or suggestion--save backups function for gnucash

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 19:48, jdebert wrote:
> Neil Williams wrote:

>
> >>Currently I use a shell wrapper to make backups before and after running
> >>gnucash.
> >
> > Why?
>
> They go to a different filesystem, for one, and add redundancy to
> increase the likelihood that a usable copy exists somewhere.
>


>
> Too tired, doing too many things at once. forgot about the gnucash
> backups already produced. And would not help, anyway, since a system
> problem trashing the data files would also too likely affect all the
> backups as well. The wrapper saving backups before and after running
> gnucash would be a better solution.

cron sounds like a better idea.
just copy them to another machine or a removable medium at a regular hour.


Liz
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