Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[Steven Stern]

It seems to me that if the auto-save option is enabled as "Yes, Always",
then unless you did something at 2:58AM everything's already saved, so
there's no need to close the program before backing up.

On 09/22/2013 05:58 PM, 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.
>