Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[prl]

In the OS X version of GnuCash, Preferences>General has a setting for 
Auto-save interval - and it doesn't appear possible to turn it off. I 
think that my setting of 5 minutes is the default.

Presumably GnuCash on other systems has a similar facility.

Peter

On 23/09/13 08:58, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I run gnucash on a Debian laptop. I set up a cron job to copy the gnucash
> folder to an external NAS and my google drive as backups. So far everything
> is working correctly.
>
> My questions:
>
> * I understand that gnucash reads the entire data file into memory. When is
> the data written out again? My concern is if I forget to close gnucash and
> the backup script runs, have I lost the updates for that day? I don't mean
> lost as in gone, just they will not be in the backup for that day, but will
> be in the backup for the next day.
>
> * What would be a good way to shut down gnucash from my backup script so it
> saves all the data before the backup is run? I usually shutdown gnucash
> before I go to bed (the cron job runs at 3 am), but sometimes I forget. I
> am a little worried that killing the gnucash process may not be the best
> way to shut it down.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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