Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[Mark Phillips]

I agree. Thanks Mark
On Sep 24, 2013 8:28 AM, "Steven Stern" <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
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