saving a gnucash data file

[Christopher Scully]

Yes, mysqldump is the mysql command for doing this but if the user about to undertake the action described doesn't know this or doesn't have permissions to run it, what good is it?

There are circumstances where on-demand backups within the application are preferable to backups by the db admin.

Chris


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From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: clanlaw at googlemail.com
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; John Spira <jspira at tpg.com.au>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 1:59:09 PM
Subject: Re: saving a gnucash data file

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)

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