saving a gnucash data file

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:

> 2009/8/14 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>> Quoting Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
>>
>>> A nightly (or whatever) backup is not the only reason for taking a
>>> backup.  If one is about to do something and one is not sure of the
>>> outcome (import some QIF data for example) one may want to take a
>>> backup at that point in case the import goes wrong.  To satisfy this
>>> one needs an 'on demand' backup.  How does one do this when using
>>> mysql?
>>
>> mysqldump
>>
>> (which does create a single file)
>>
>
> I know how to do it, the question is whether save backup is a feature
> that would be useful in GC.  Would the average GC user be able to run
> mysqldump?  Don't forget he would have to use the appropriate options
> to set the username and password.  I still think that the ability to
> save an xml backup file would be useful.

File -> Save As [xml]

> Colin

-derek

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