Backup idea

[David Brock]

Ooh- how are they biting today?  ;-)

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:55, Alan H. Lake wrote:
> I have received a request and have an idea as to how to fulfill it. 
> I'd like to know if someone has a better idea or has developed part of
> what the implementation of this idea would require.
> 
> The request is to be able to back up the GnuCash data so that it could
> be read by Excel.  The thinking is that Linux machine are still in the
> minority and it would be good to be able to get at the data on a
> Windows machine in case of a disaster.
> 
> It appears that GnuCash stores its data in XML format.  I could use
> PHP to access the data, then write it out in CSV format.  Right now, I
> don't know all of the tags that I might encounter, but I do know which
> ones are being used in the file I need to back up.
> 
> Are there any ideas or suggestions that might expedite this project?