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[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:27:23AM -0500, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> Some general comments
> 
> 2) ALWAYS backup all your user data before any software change. 
> Actually, you should have some regular frequency of doing backups even 
> if no software change. You decide how much of your data you can afford 
> to lose/replace --- a month's, a week's, a day's, etc. This advice is 
> not specific to GnuCash.

good advice of course, and it can never be over-emphasised. 

IMO, financial data is often more critical than any other data you may
have (barring the dissertation right before you hand it in) and as
such deserves particular attention. Of all the stuff you may have in
your ~/ there is nothing with quite the same combination of "difficult
to reproduce" and "critically important to reproduce" than your
books. I take regular snapshots of my ~/ and /etc and save it on a
server across the room for me and that's great for the mistaken
deletion or drive failure, but what about the fire? I run a nightly
cronjob that gathers up all my financial data, tar's it up, encrypts
it and then ftp's it to a server in florida. In the event I lose
everything, I've still got my books...

A
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