Dropbox with GnuCash?

[Mike Evans]

On Friday 31 Dec 2010 13:52:02 Colin Law wrote:
> On 31 December 2010 13:41, Davide Imbeni <davide.imbeni at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just my 0.02 €, I've been using Dropbox on my gnucash data for a year or
> > so, and I'm happy with it.
> > Of course, I don't regard my data as that valuable (for anyone else than
> > me).
> > As for backups, If you have more than one PC (or phone) in sync, you will
> > automatically get as many remote backups, which are available even in
> > case of failure of Dropbox.com...
> 
> Don't forget though that dropbox is capable of overwriting the local
> files.  If for some reason it ended up with a corrupted file then the
> next time you connected it would overwrite all the 'backups' with the
> corrupt copy.
> 
> Colin
> _______________________________________________

Linux users can use encfs for their dropbox as described at:

http://pragmattica.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/encrypting-your-dropbox-
seamlessly-and-automatically/

Also read: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=15065
regarding potential data loss.

Mike E

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