rfc or suggestion--save backups function for gnucash

[Neil Williams]

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 10:48, jdebert wrote:
> > You haven't explained why this would be necessary.
>
> Only to try to overcome system defects that may trash files.

It's never wise to solve a system problem at the application level - it's 
papering over the cracks. Other distributions don't suffer the fault, GnuCash 
itself is not to blame, this needs to be fixed in the distro, not a package.

> 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.

No, solve the problem, don't work around it. Report it to the right people and 
get it fixed. If this is affecting GnuCash it will affect other packages as 
well, you could find your databases, email, documents, encryption keys, 
anything being corrupted. If it is a bug in a service daemon of some kind, it 
could even cause corruptions in important system areas like /etc/ or /usr/bin 
because it would be triggered by a process with root privileges. Don't ignore 
the problem, report it.

> Adding this to gnucash would really be more trouble than it's worth.

Adding this to GnuCash would be unwelcome because it is not a problem with 
GnuCash. Find the real problem and report it - it is the only way to fix it.

What you are doing smacks of writing a DOS batch file to protect against a 
Windows GPF. "It don't fix nothing."
:-)

Cure the problem, not the symptom.

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