Using Git to Make Backups

[Ian Barton]

First of all many thanks to the developers of Gnucash, it's a great product.

At the moment I back up and create a snapshot of my files by creating 
tar.gz archives every time I do a reconciliation. However, it just 
occured to me that I could easily use git for snapshots/backups.

There are several advantages for me. I can easily create snapshots of my 
data and if I make a foobar of entering some data, it's easy to undo 
changes. The ease of doing commits means I'll probably make lots more 
snapshots, which makes recovering from mistakes much easier. I can 
create a remote repo, so it's always easy to get a current copy of my 
data for use on another computer.

Is anyone else using git?

Also I would like to keep all my gnucash data, including config files in 
one place. Is symlinking .gnucash to ~/MyData/gnucash likely to cause 
any problems?

Ian.