restoring backup

[Arthur Dyck]

That may well be the case.  Oh, well, at least it's only three months of data.

Arthur

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 15:29, Maf. King wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 Mar 2007, Arthur Dyck wrote:
> > I had a hard drive failure and am now trying to reload my gnucash files. 
> > I am using 2.0.1 on kubuntu edgy.
> >
> > When I go to my saved files. I have a series of .log and .xac files which
> > look like this:  2007accounts.20070317100305.log and
> > 2007accounts.20070317100305.xac.  When I try to open the .xac file I get
> > the following error message: The file type of
> > file /home/arthur/Documents/gnucash/2007/2007 accounts.20070317100302.xac
> > is unknown.  It also appears that all of my .log and .xac files are
> > empty.
> >
> > I also have some backup files from last year which look very differently:
> > translog.20050605133832.log.20050611105017.xac.20050617130343.xac.2005102
> >81 11030.xac.20051223081513.xac.20060105112611. These files open just
> > fine.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what is happening here?
> >
> > Arthur
>
> Hi Arthur,
>
> Whenever you click "save", GC will make a backup of the old file, and
> append a timestamp to the filename.
> If you then re-open that backup, and save it again, you get a double
> timestamp etc, like your old files from last year.
>
> The .log file is supposed to reflect the changes made to a file before you
> save it, the idea being that you can go to a backup and do a "replay log
> file" import and restore your data in a crisis. But there are various
> rumours about how well that works - the only time I tried it it seemed
> fine, but it was a simple case.
>
> The .xac files should hold your data - if they have been truncated to zero
> length, then they may well be victims of your HDD failure.
>
> HTH,
> Maf.